Internet Resources

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General Resources for all Religions

• American Religion Data Archive ~ Users can search or browse this database that seeks to collect, preserve, and provide access to quantitative data on American religion.
• Counterbalance Interactive Library ~ "offering new views on complex issues from science, ethics, philosophy, and religion. Here you'll find extensive resources on the evolution/creation controversy, biomedical ethical challenges, and much more."
• Overview Of World Religions ~ from the Division of Religion and Philosophy, St. Martin's College.
• Internet Sacred Text Archive ~ This site is a freely available archive of electronic texts about religion, mythology, legends and folklore, and occult and esoteric topics. Texts are presented in English translation and, in some cases, in the original language.
• Religion and Ethics Newsweekly ~ This site is a companion to an ongoing Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) "program devoted entirely to the news of religion and spirituality, and major ethical issues" from around the nation and the world.
• Religion and the Founding of the American Republic ~ Includes annotated images of "books, manuscripts, letters, prints, paintings, [and] artifacts." From the Library of Congress.
• Religion Online.org ~ This site aims "to develop an extensive library of hundreds of entries, presenting many different points of view, but all written from the perspective of sound scholarship." Contains nearly 5,500 articles in such topics as the Bible, practical theology, ethics, social issues, history of religion, and education. Includes links to over 200 full-text books. Searchable and browsable.
• Religion Statistics (Adherents.com) ~ Adherents.com is a growing collection of over 43,870 adherent statistics and religious geography citations: references to published membership/adherent statistics and congregation statistics for over 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, ultimate concerns, etc.
• The Religious Movements Homepage Project ~ "On this extensive Web site you will find detailed profiles of more than two hundred different religious groups and movement." From the University of Virginia.

Buddhism

• BuddhNet: Buddhist Information and Education Network
• Resources for the Study of Buddhism ~ Compiled by Prof. Ron Epstein

Christianity

• All-in-One Biblical Resources Search ~ Simultaneously search dozens of versions and translations of the Bible, related web resources, email discussion list archives, and more.
• Bible Gateway ~ Contains dozens of versions of the Bible in over thirty languages. Searchable by passage, keyword, and topic. Includes audio, commentaries, dictionaries, and related links.
• The Bible, Revised Standard Version ~ Keyword search the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, Old and New Testaments, with the Apocrypha. There is also a frames side-by-side presentation of the King James and Revised Standard Bibles, for easy comparison. From the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.
• The Catholic Encyclopedia ~ "The Catholic Encyclopedia, as its name implies, proposes to give its readers full and authoritative information on the entire cycle of Catholic interests, action and doctrine...It differs from the general encyclopedia in omitting facts and information which have no relation to the Church. On the other hand, it is not exclusively a church encyclopedia, nor is it limited to the ecclesiastical sciences and the doings of churchmen."
• Catholic Online.org ~ The mission of this site "is to accurately represent the Catholic religion ... [It] provides over five million pages of content including the largest online historical and biblical database about the Catholic Church including comprehensive information about over 7,000 Catholic saints and comprehensive online scriptures."
• From Jesus to Christ: the First Christians ~ This FRONTLINE (PBS) series is an intellectual and visual guide to the new and controversial historical evidence which challenges familiar assumptions about the life of Jesus and the epic rise of Christianity.
• The New Testament Gateway ~ An annotated "directory of academic internet resources related to the New Testament." Dr. Marc Goodacre, Department of Religion, Duke University.
• Patron Saints Index ~ from the Catholic Community Forum
• World Wide Encyclopedia of Christianity ~ "a single reference source with links to the contents of the Catholic Encyclopedia, Easton's Bible Dictionary, Smith's Bible Dictionary, Torrey's Topical Textbook, Elwell's Dictionary of Christian Theology, and the Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia."
• Yale Divinity Digital Image and Text Archive ~ Thousands of artistic, historical, geographical, and religious images and texts.

Hinduism

• The Bhagvat Gita Sanskrit Verses ~ A complete Sanskrit version of a principal text of Hinduism. This site also links to an English translation and English-Sanskrit dictionaries
• Diwali (Divali, Dewali, Deepavali) ~ A brief description of the Hindu Festival of Lights and its celebration over five days
• TempleNet:The Ultimate Source of Information on Indian Temples

Islam

• Al-Islam.org ~ "Al-Islam.org is created and maintained by the Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project (DILP), a registered Non Profit Organisation that operates through the collaborative effort of volunteers based in many countries around the world. Our objectives are to digitize and present on the Internet quality Islamic resources, related to the history, law, practice, and society of the Islamic religion and the Muslim peoples."
• Compendium of Muslim Texts ~ a compilation of Islamic texts from the University of Southern California.
• Introduction to Islam ~ by Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni, the Middle East Institute

Judaism

• Jewish Virtual Library ~ from the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise: "your source for information about Jewish history, Israel, U.S.-Israel relations, the Holocaust, anti-Semitism and Judaism."
• Torah.org ~ a compilation of Jewish religious texts and educational resources