General
Resources for all Religions | Buddhism | Christianity | Hinduism | Islam | Judaism
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.
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- 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.
- Virtual
Religion Index ~ "This site is designed to advance research
in matters of religion."
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Buddhism
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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.
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- 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."
- 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.
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Hinduism
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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
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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
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N. Mellendorf, Librarian. Last update: 4/07/08
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