HSU Electronic Reserve
The HSU Electronic Reserve Program, Oncores is a service offered by the Humboldt State University Library which offers students on-line access to copyrighted materials under the fair use provisions of copyright law. The Electronic Reserve materials that are linked to this web site are protected under special username and password in order to guarantee the integrity of HSU's compliance with copyright regulations.

When you attempt to access materials from the Library server, you will be prompted to enter the appropriate access codes. Since only registered students at HSU have access to this Web site, you are provided with the the Username and Password for this service here (see below). If you have any questions about the proper use of these materials, so that you do not violate copyright restrictions yourself, please contact the staff at the HSU library for more information (see HSU Library WWW site).

Students may also access materials that other professors and I have put on reserve by going directly to Oncores, HSU Library's Electronic Reserve (http://library.humboldt.edu/library/reserve/ereserve.html), where all Electronic Reserve materials are organized by Professor and Course.

Click here to gain access to all of Herbrechtsmeier's Electronic Reserve Materials, directly from the Library web site.

For the Fall semester, 1999, access codes for the HSU Electronic reserve are as follows:

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The following texts are currently available through Oncores, the HSU Library's electronic reserve system. In order to access any of these readings, simply click on the author's name. (You will need to know the Username and Password listed above.)

Definition of Religion

Bellah, Robert N. Civil Religion in America

Smith, Wilfred Cantwell. Religion' in the West

Primal Religion

Ellis, The Tabu

Goldenweiser, Alexander. Totemism: An Essay on Religion and Society

Lowie, Robert H. The Vision Quest, Shamans, and Priests among the North American Indians

Malinowski, Bronislaw. Excerpted from "Culture"

Neihardt, John G. The Great Vision

Radcliffe Brown, A. R. Taboo. "The Frazer Lecture"

Goddess Worship in Old Europe

Eisler, Riane. Messages from the Past: The World of the Goddess

Gimbutas, Marija. The "Monstrous Venus" of Prehistory

Stone, Merlin. Women — Where Woman was Deified

Pre-Classical Abrahamic Religion

Trible, Phyllis. An Unnamed Woman: The Extravagance of Violence

Historical Jesus

Crossan, John Dominic. Prologue: The Historical Jesus

Smith, Morton. What Outsiders Said — Evidence in the Gospels

Judaism

Borowitz, Eugene B. Confronting the Holocaust

Cohn-Sherbok, Dan. Post-Holocaust Jewish Thinkers

Greenberg, Irving. Religious Values after the Holocaust: A Jewish View

Katz, Steven T. Jewish Faith after the Holocaust: Four Approaches

Maccoby, Hyam. The Origins of Anti-Semitism

Christianity

Falwell, Jerry. Fundamentalism is Alive and Well

Ruether, Rosemary Radford. Feminist Theology: Methodology, Sources, and Norms.

Islam

Ahmad, Khurshid. The Nature of the Islamic Resurgence

Madina, Maan Z. The Arabs and the Rise of Islam

Taoism

Watson, Burton, trans. Discussion on Making All Things Equal

Watts, Alan. The Philosophy of the Tao

Confucianism

Smith, Huston. Confucianism

Hinduism

Hiltebeitel, Alf. Hinduism

Olivelle, Patrick, trans. Chapter 6 of the Chandogya Upanishad

Buddhism

Ingram, Paul. Nature's Jeweled Net: Kukai's Ecological Buddhism

Lopez, Donald S. Jr. The Sutra

Suzuki, D. T. Satori, or Englightenment

Tipps, Owen C. A Brief Introduction to Indian Mahayana Buddhist Philosophy