New Jacoby and Brill's dictionary of religion.

Jacoby Online presents a completely new edition of "Jacoby". Updated twice yearly, at the rate of about 60 historians per update (approximate equivalent of 1,000 printed pages), each of Jacoby's 856 entries, comprising a total of more than 12,000, fragments will be supplemented with: . new authors not in the original FGrHist; . new readings of many of Jacoby's Greek texts; . new commentaries in English by contemporary scholars; . for the first time commentary on the texts that Jacoby did not complete before his death; . facing English translations of the Greek fragments and testimonia; . an encyclopedia-style biography of the ancient author; and . a regularly updated bibliography /Jacoby Online/ also includes the online edition of the original three parts of Felix Jacoby's monumental /*Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker*/, giving instant and fully searchable access to the equivalent of more than 8,000 pages of print.

Brill Dictionary of Religion, the new /Dictionary/ addresses religion as an element of daily life and public discourse. With more than 500 entries and many illustrations and charts, the dictionary is a multi-media reference source on the many and various forms of religious commitment. It is unusual in that it not only addresses the different theologies and doctrinal declarations of the official institutionalized religions but it also gives equal weight and consideration to a multiplicity of other religious phenomena. People perceive and express religious experiences in many different ways: through dance, sensuality, in relations between sexes and in compassion at death. Religions help determine how people form and perceive their identity as part of a social group. The diverse effects of religions can also be perceived in the environment, society and the public sphere. /Dictionary /helps map out and define the networks and connections created by various religions in contemporary societies, and provides models for understanding these complex phenomena.