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The North Star is published exclusively on the world wide web with two primary goals. First, in association with the Afro-American Religious History group of the American Academy of Religion, it provides information on events, new publications, research collections, and other resources in the field of African-American religious history. Second, it presents peer-reviewed articles based on historical research that explore the religious cultures of people of African descent in the United States. While the editors are interested primarily in North America, we will on occasion publish work from other disciplines and/or that deals in a comparative way with other areas of the African diaspora, as well as with regions in Africa. We are committed to publishing the best new work in the field by senior and junior scholars. We also encourage graduate students working in this area to submit articles and book reviews and we hope to provide a venue for them to share their work and highlight new areas of study in the field.
The North Star is indexed and articles published are abstracted in America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts, published by ABC-CLIO. Articles published in The North Star are also indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals.
If you link to The North Star, use the PURL address (Persistent Universal Resource Locator): http://purl.org/net/northstar.
For more information on PURLs, visit the Persistent URL Home Page.
How to Cite North Star Articles
All articles and reviews published in The North Star are under copyright protection. Any archiving, redistribution, or republication of this text in any medium requires the consent of the author.
At present there is no standard of citation for electronic format. We suggest the following: To cite files available for viewing/downloading via the World Wide Web, give the author's name ( if known), the full title of the work in quotation marks, the title of the complete work if applicable in italics, the full http address, and the date of your visit.
Example: Little, Lawrence. "The African Methodist Episcopal Church Media and Racial Discourse, 1880-1900 ." The North Star: A Journal of African-American Religious History. http://northstar.vassar.edu/volume2/little.html (December 1, 2000).
For other suggestions on citation format, consult the Columbia Guide to Online Style.
The editors are not able to field research questions from students writing papers but a number of resources are available to get you started:
1. Search a library catalogue using any of a number of Library of Congress subject headings. For example:
African Americans Religion
African Americans Southern States Religion
African American Baptists
African American churches
African American clergy
African American women religious life
Black Muslims
National Baptist Convention of the United States of America History
Southern States Church history2. Consult a general reference source such as:
Larry G. Murphy, J. Gordon Melton, Gary L. Ward, eds., Encyclopedia of African American Religions (New York : Garland, 1993).
Jack Salzman, David Lionel Smith, Cornel West, eds., Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History (New York: Macmillan Library Reference, 1996).
Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, eds., Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (New York: Basic Civitas Books, 1999).
3. Consult the resources at the website for African-American Religion: A Documentary History Project, edited by Albert J. Raboteau and David W. Wills.
The North Star has been cited in The Infography among excellent sources of information about African-American Religious History,
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