Links
New:
http://www.lib.fsu.edu/wiki/index.php/Religion
Our friends at FSU Libraries have just created this "wiki"
portal for students of religion. It's a great place to get started
with research because it links to relevant databases, e-journals,
web resources, etc.
Search Engines and Directories:
http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Religion_and_Spirituality/
Yahoo directory list, many sponsored sites – many many
categories.
http://infomine.ucr.edu/
Good general search engine for higher quality, academic sources.
http://www.ixquick.com/
Good search engine – unlike Google, it searches by relevance
to search entries and not by popularity of site. This is a major
drawback of Google.
http://scholar.google.com/
However, responding to the above criticism, the geniuses at
Google have launched a beta search engine that focuses on scholarly
journals and educational institutions. Many full-page articles
cost money, though….
Specialized
Directories and Databases:
http://vlib.org/Religion
Good portal site. Good place to start….
http://lii.org/search/file/religion
Another good portal site. You could end up anywhere….
http://virtualreligion.net/vri/index.html
Yet another good portal site. There is a very good section on
the “synoptic problem” of the gospels at this site.
It is maintained by the Religion Department at Rutgers University.
http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/Internet/front.htm
As it says: “A selective, annotated guide to a wide variety
of electronic resources of interest to those who are involved
in the study and practice of religion: syllabi, electronic texts,
electronic journals, web sites, bibliographies, listserv discussion
groups, liturgies, reference resources, software, etc. The purpose
of the Guide is to encourage and facilitate the incorporation
of electronic resources into teaching.” And be sure to
keep an eye out for the NB (from the latin, Note Bene) and “Top
Site” ranking markers.
http://www.religion-online.org/
Started by William F. Fore when he was teaching in Bangalore,
India. An amazing number of entire books and papers of scholarly
value to be found here. The selection emphasizes Christianity
and Theology, but is supposed to be expanding to other religions
and disciplines.
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/rel/
Very good portal site by categories (even the one you may be
looking for) maintained by Dr. Thursby at the University of
Florida. I particularly liked the “What me Contemplate?”
page with its “Nietzsche Aphorisms” page at the
bottom of the list.
News,
Contemporary Culture, Current Events, Special Issues:
http://pewforum.org/
Good source on recent news and information.
http://www.beliefnet.com/index.html?rnd=69
This is a commercial web site that provides general information.
It is a good quick reference or for getting basic background
at the beginning of a project.
http://are.as.wvu.edu/
Perhaps better as a source for professors. As it says: “The
project serves as a clearinghouse for over 100 hypertext links
related to some aspect of American religions and American religious
history. Many sites represent truly outstanding scholarly resources
that other scholars and organizations have published on the
internet. Other link sites offer useful information and interesting
images.”
http://www.earlham.edu/~libr/acrlwss/wsstheo.html
Good portal site for gender, women’s studies, and religion
http://www.religionandsocialpolicy.org/
This is from the Roundtable on Religion and Social Welfare Policy
of the Rockefeller Institute at the State University of New
York.
http://www.counterbalance.org/
Groovy site for Science and Religion: “Counterbalance
is a non-profit educational organization working to promote
counterbalanced perspectives on complex issues. It is our hope
that individuals, the academic community, and society as a whole
will benefit from a struggle toward integrated and counterbalanced
views. Our services are used by PBS Online, The Center for Theology
and the Natural Sciences, the AAAS, Science and Religion Forum
(UK), and others.”
http://www.religionnews.com/
As they say: “For nearly 70 years, Religion News Service®
has been an authoritative source of news about religion, ethics,
spirituality and moral issues.RNS' first priority is to provide
intelligent, objective coverage of all religions -- Judaism,
Christianity, Islam, Asian religions and private spirituality.
RNS also provides commentary from a diverse array of all points
of the political and theological spectrum.”
http://www.ctns.org/
Maintained by the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences
at Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California –
where the streets are paved with gold (-en candy wrappers).
http://www.thearda.com/arda.asp?Show=Home
Supported by the Lilly Endowment at Penn State, this is a must-visit
pilgrimage site for all students of American Religious History.
The American Denominations page was enough to make my Catholic
bones (brittle as they are) shudder – but the “Buddhism,
Shintoism, and New Japanese Family” of denominations had
but one lonely listing…. Can anybody guess?
http://www.adherents.com/
Statistics anyone? On “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.” We all need
numbers every now and then….
American
Religious History Resources:
Centers,
Institutes & Projects
Boisi Center
for Religion & American Public Life
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/research/rapl/index.htm
Center for
Religion, the Professions, and the Public
http://rpp.missouri.edu/
Center for
the Study of Religion and American Culture
http://www.iupui.edu/%7Eraac/
Center for
the Study of Religion and American Life
http://www.yale.edu/cral/
Center for
the Study of Religious Freedom
http://www.vwc.edu/academics/csrf/
Hartford
Institute for Religion Research
http://hirr.hartsem.edu/
Institute
for Practical Ethics
http://www.virginia.edu/ipe/
Institute
for the Study of American Religion
http://www.americanreligion.org/
Martin Marty
Center
http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/
Material
History of American Religion project
http://www.materialreligion.org/
Paul B.
Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics
http://www.calvin.edu/henry/
Pluralism
Project
http://www.pluralism.org/
Project
on Lived Theology
http://livedtheology.org/
Project
on Religion & Urban Culture
http://www.polis.iupui.edu/ruc/
Religion
Source
http://www.religionsource.org/
The Association
of Religion Data Archives
http://thearda.com/
The Wabash
Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion
http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/
Walter H.
Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion and Public Life
http://www.cappscenter.ucsb.edu/
African
American
African-American
Religion: A Documentary Project
http://www.amherst.edu/~aardoc/menu.html
Institute
for Black Religious Life
http://www.itc.edu/pages%5Cibrl.asp
Martin Luther
King, Jr., Research and Education Institute
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/
America
Divining
America: Religion and the National Culture
http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/tserve/divam.htm
Journal
of Southern Religion
http://jsr.fsu.edu/
Map Gallery
of Religion in the United States
http://www.valpo.edu/geomet/geo/courses/geo200/religion.html
North American
Religion Atlas
http://www.religionatlas.org/
Religion
and the Founding of the American Republic
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/
Salem Witch
Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project
http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/
The American
Religious Experience
http://are.as.wvu.edu/
The Jefferson
Bible
http://www.angelfire.com/co/JeffersonBible/
U. S. Congregational
Life Survey
http://www.uscongregations.org/
WestWeb:
Western Religious History
http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/westweb/pages/religion.html
Democracy
Institute
for the Advanced Study of Culture (formerly The Center for Religion
and Democracy)
http://www.virginia.edu/iasc/
Christianity
Center for
Baptist Studies
http://www.centerforbaptiststudies.org/
Center for
Methodist Studies
http://www.smu.edu/bridwell/methodiststudies/methodiststudies.htm
Cushwa Center
for the Study of American Catholicism
http://www.nd.edu/~cushwa/
Francis
and Ann Curan Center for American Catholic Studies
http://www.fordham.edu/cs/
Historical
Society of the Episcopal Church
http://www.hsec.us/
Institute
for the Study of American Evangelicals
http://www.wheaton.edu/isae/index.html
Islam
American
Academy of Religion – Study of Islam Section
http://groups.colgate.edu/aarislam/default.htm
Judaism
American
Academy for Jewish Research
http://www.aajr.org/
American
Jewish Historical Society
http://www.ajhs.org/
Journal
of Textual Reasoning
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/journals/tr/
New
Religious Movements
Religious
Movements Homepage Project
http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/
Asian
Religion Resources:
The
Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center
http://tbrc.org
The preeminent online bibliographic and biographical resource
for researchers in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies worldwide.
The
Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library
http://thdl.org
An international community using web-based technologies to integrate
diverse knowledge about Tibet and the Himalayas for free access
from around the world.
Himalayan
Art Project
http://www.himalayanart.org
A comprehensive research database, a virtual museum, of Himalayan
and Tibetan art.
The
Institute of Tibetan Classics
http://www.tibetanclassics.org
A non-profit educational organization dedicated to the preservation
and dissemination of classical Tibetan thought and culture.
Tibetan
Studies Virtual Library
http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-TibetanStudies.html
An extensive list of links for academic resources in Tibetan
and Buddhist Studies
Latse
Contemporary Tibetan Cultural Library
http://www.latse.org
Forum of open inquiry for all audiences interested in Tibetan
culture.
Asian
Classics Input Project
http://www.asianclassics.org
Works to preserve the disappearing books containing the great
ideas of Asia and to make these books and ideas accessible to
the world at large.
Nitartha
International
http://www.nitartha.org/home.html
Provides technological and educational resources to bring the
living wisdom of Asia to the world community.
The
University of Washington Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project
Journal
of Buddhist Ethics
Asia
Source
International
Dunhuang Project
Ramayana
Index (T.V. version)
Pluralism
Project (Harvard University)
Indology
home page
Sarai:
South Asia Resource Access on the Internet
Other
Sites of Interest:
Biblical
Archaeology Review
EAWC:
The Ancient Near East
American
Academy of Religion
House
of Ptolemy: The Jews of Ptolemaic and Greco-Roman Egypt
Diotoma:
Materials for the study of women & gender in the ancient
world
CCER: CENTER
FOR COMPUTER-AIDED EGYPTOLOGICAL RESEARCH
BRITISH
MUSEUM
The
University of Memphis Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology
THEBAN
MAPPING PROJECT
The
Orthodox Christian Page
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