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 EBSCO:
Religion
& Philosophy Collection
One of the EBSCOhost databases, The
Religion & Philosophy Collection offers more
than 300 full text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed
titles, making it an essential tool for researchers and
students of theology and philosophical studies. Click on
the link above to locate the title of this collection in
the list.
Password needed for off-campus access - See
Library staff.
The
Pluralism Project at Harvard University
URL: http://www.pluralism.org/
Based on the 1997 CD-ROM On Common Ground: World Religions
in America, by Diana Eck, released by Columbia University
Press. Site offers a wide set of resources for studying
numerous religious outlooks. [08/08]
General
and Comparative Religious Websites
A
to Z of Religions and Beliefs
URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/index.shtml
Articles on different religions, BBC. [05/06]
About.com: Religion & Spirituality
URL: http://about.com/religion/
Explore traditional and timely topics. [09/05]
Adherents.com
URL:
http://www.adherents.com/index.html
This
website offers national and international religion statistics,
church statistics, and lists of the world religions. Author(s)
unknown, but stats are well documented. [Note-
no "about us" section] [07/06]
American
Religion Data Archive
URL: http://www.thearda.com/
"The American Religion Data Archive (ARDA) is a project
funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc. and acts to preserve
quantitative data on American religion..." [09/05]
Annual
Report to Congress on International Religious Freedom
URL: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS11558
U.S. Department of State Country Reports from 1999 - 2005.
[05/06]
Beliefnet
URL: http://belief.net/
"A multi-faith e-community." Topics include
overviews of numerous religions as well as discussion
of morality and spirituality. [10/06]
Church
- State Links
URL: http://www.baylor.edu/church_state/index.php?id=36167
Baylor University's J. M. Dawson's Institute of Church
and State Studies has an evaluated list of Internet information:
Primary
Source Material in Religion and Politics, Links
to Current Issues on Church-State, and Judicial
Decisions (relating to religion). [
10/06]
Divining
America: Religion and the National Culture
URL: http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/tserve/divam.htm
Essays on different aspects of different religions. From
the National Humanities Center. [12/05]
Faith
and Doubt at Ground Zero
URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/faith/
Frontline explores "how the religious beliefs –
and unbelief – of Americans have been challenged
since the events of Sept. 11." [09/05]
Hartford
Institute for Religion Research: Official Denominational
Websites
URL: http://hirr.hartsem.edu/org/faith_denominations_homepages.html
An A - Z listing by the Hartford Institute for Religion
Research. [07/06]
Internet
History Sourcebooks Project
URL: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/
A comprehensive bibliography set forth by Paul Halsall,
Fordham University. The site provides "collections
of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented...for
educational use."
[Note: this site has not been updated since 2001, but
appears to still have valuable resources, so it remains.
07/06]
Major
World Religions
URL: http://omsakthi.org/religions.html
Includes basic information on the major world religions.
From the perspective of the Om Sakthi Spiritual Movement.
[07/06]
The
Pluralism Project
URL: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~pluralsm/
"Our mission is to help Americans engage with the
realities of religious diversity through research, outreach,
and the active dissemination of resources." Harvard
University. [10/06]
Theology
Library at Spring Hill College
URL: http://www.shc.edu/theolibrary/
Listing of links. [not
updated since 2004, but good links, 10/06]
Virtual
Religion Index
URL: http://virtualreligion.net/vri/
"This Virtual Religion Index is a tool for students
with little time. It analyzes & highlights important
content of religion-related websites to speed research."
Mahlon H. Smith, affiliated with Rutgers University. [12/05]
Individual
Relgious Websites
Agnostic
Agnostic
Church
Atheistic
American
Atheists
Ba'Hai
Bahá'í
International Community: Statement Library
URL: http://www.bic-un.bahai.org/
Issues statements. [07/06]
The Bahá'ís:
The International Website of the Bahá'í
Faith
URL: http://bahai.org/
[07/06]
Buddhism
American
Buddhist Congress
URL: http://www.americanbuddhistcongress.org/
[not
updated since 01/04
-- 07/06]
DharmaNet:
Gateways to Buddhism
URL: http://www.dharmanet.org/index.shtml
An online clearinghouse - since 1991 -for Buddhist study
and practice resources. Due to illness, not being currently
updated. [07/06]
Zen
Buddhism
URL: http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-Zen.html
World Wide Web Virtual Library list of resources. [07/06]
Catholic
- Roman Catholic and other Catholics
Anglican
Catholic Church [07/06]
URL: http://www.anglicancatholic.org/
Catholic
Apostolic Church in North America (CACINA)
[07/06]
URL: http://www.cacina.org/
Catholic
Charities USA [10/06]
URL: http://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org
Holy
Eastern Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church in North
America
URL: http://www.theocacna.org/
[10/06]
Orthodox
Catholic Church of America [07/06]
URL: http://www.orthodoxcatholicchurch.org/
Theology
Library at Spring Hill College
URL: http://www.shc.edu/theolibrary/
Topics such as Revelation, Liturgy, Morality, there are
over 8000 links in this neatly organized subject guide.
Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL. [03/06]
United
States Conference of Catholic Bishops
URL: http://www.nccbuscc.org/
"The purpose of the Conference is to promote the
greater good which the Church offers humankind, especially
through forms and programs of the apostolate fittingly
adapted to the circumstances of time and place."
[07/06]
Vatican:
the Holy See
URL: http://www.vatican.va/phome_en.htm
Official Vatican website. Resource library that
includes full text of the new American Bible, and the
Catechism of the Catholic Church. [07/06]
World
Wide Marriage Encounter
URL: http://www.wwme.org/index.html
Information for marriage encounters based on Catholic
teachings. [07/06]
Christian
Denominations including Protestants
African
Methodist Episcopal Church
American
Association of Lutheran Churches [10/06]
American
Baptist Association
American
Baptist Church-USA
Associate
Reformed Presbyterian Church
Bible Basics:
Multilingual Bible Study (Christadelphian
Webring)
Christian
Methodist Episcopal Church
Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon)
Church
of Christ, Scientist
Episcopal
Church, USA
Greek
Orthodox Archdiocese of America
Jehovah's
Witnesses: Watchtower
Mennonite
Church USA
National
Council of Churches
Pentecostal
Assemblies of the World
Pentecostal
Church of God [10/06]
Presbyterian
Church (USA) [01/06]
Reformed
Episcopal Church Online
Seventh-Day
Adventist Church
United Church of Christ,
Congregational [01/06]
United Methodist
Church [10/06]
Universalist
Church
Hindu
Hindu
Resources Online
URL: http://www.hindu.org/
"The
goal of www.hindu.org is to publish and connect all Hindu
organizations, leaders and resources such as news, events,
publications, Vedic sciences, art, music and culture on
the Internet's World Wide Web." [10/06]
Humanism
American
Humanist Association
URL: http://www.americanhumanist.org/
"Humanism is a progressive philosophy of
life that, without supernaturalism, affirms our ability
and responsibility to lead ethical lives of personal fulfillment
that aspire to the greater good of humanity." [10/06]
Council
for Secular Humanism
URL: http://www.secularhumanism.org/
"The Council for Secular Humanism is North
America's leading organization for non-religious people.
A not-for-profit educational association, the Council
supports a wide range of activities to meet the needs
of people who find meaning and value in life without looking
to a god." [07/06]
International
Humanist and Ethical Union
URL: http://www.iheu.org/
"Founded in Amsterdam in 1952, International Humanist
and Ethical Union (IHEU) is the sole world umbrella organisation
embracing Humanist, atheist, rationalist, secularist,
skeptic, laique, ethical cultural, freethought and similar
organisations world-wide. Our vision is a Humanist world;
a world in which human rights are respected and everyone
is able to live a life of dignity." [07/06]
Jain
Federation
of Jain Associations in North America (JAINA)
Jain
Heritage Centres
The
Jain Study Circle
Jainism.org
Judaism
AISH
URL: http://www.aish.com/
Aish HaTorah is an apolitical, international network
of Jewish educational centers. [04/06]
American Jewish
Committee (AJC)
URL: http://www.ajc.org/
"American Jewish Committee has worked since 1906
to safeguard and strengthen Jews and Jewish life worldwide
by promoting democratic and pluralistic societies that
respect the dignity of all peoples." [10/06]
Jewish
Agency for Israel
URL: http://www.jewishagency.org
"...a global partnership committed to the Jewish
future that stands on a history-making track record.
Together, our partnership has brought 3 million people
to Israel; we have built a nation." [10/06]
The
Jewish Encyclopedia
URL: http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/index.jsp
"This website contains the complete contents of
the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, which was originally
published between 1901-1906. The Jewish Encyclopedia,
which recently became part of the public domain, contains
over 15,000 articles and illustrations." [04/06]
Jewish
History Resource Center
URL: http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/dinur/
"The
Jewish History Resource Center is a project of the Dinur
Center for Research in Jewish History. Over 6000 links
to websites in more than 30 categories dealing with
Jewish History..."
Hebrew
University of Jerusalem. [04/06]
Jewish
Holidays
URL: http://urj.org/holidays/index.cfm?
Union for Reform Judaism. [04/06]
Jewish
Women's Archive
URL: http://www.jwa.org
"The Jewish Women's Archive community is for scholars.
For activists. For mothers and daughters. For fathers
and sons. For researchers, historians, and for all who
believe that everyone with a stake in history is a keeper
of it and a partner in its transmission." [04/06]
Judaism
101
URL: http://www.jewfaq.org/toc.htm
Online encyclopedia of Judaism written from an Orthodox
viewpoint. [04/06]
Reform
Judaism
URL: http://www.rj.org/
"Reform Judaism took root in North America more
than 130 years ago under the leadership of Rabbi Isaac
Mayer Wise, one of several European rabbis who brought
the changes in Judaism occurring in Europe to these
shores." Union of American Hebrew Congregations.
[04/06]
Orthodox
Union, ou.org
URL: http://www.ou.org/
"Orthodox Union is the largest and most dynamic
Jewish movement of its kind in the world.." [04/06]
United
Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
URL: http://www.uscj.org/
"The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism promotes
the role of the synagogue in Jewish life in order to
motivate Conservative Jews to perform mitzvot encompassing
ethical behavior, spirituality, Judaic learning, and
ritual observance." [04/06]
Neo-Paganism
(including
Asatru, Druidism, Native American, Wicca)
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