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Christianity Search Engine (generally links to evangelical material; "Search engine and directory of Christianity articles, links, and books.")(First Assembly of God)
Biblekeeper (Christian bible study site; "An interactive website with several versions and languages of the Bible")
Michael Maasdorp Radical Faith ("is based on the supposition that a few Christians are interested in looking at the broader context in which their faith was born. In particular, it supposes that being a Christian today demands that we are prepared to move away from traditional teachings when necessary.")
(Michael Maasdorp, Society of the Sacred Mission)
Church of Scientology Official Site (religious organization; "Official Scientology Home Page")
Woodstock Theological Center ("Woodstock Theological Center is an independent nonprofit institute at Georgetown University that engages in theological and ethical reflection on topics of social, economic, business, scientific, cultural, religious, and political importance. The Center does research, conducts conferences and seminars, and publishes books and articles. Drawing on the Roman Catholic tradition, the Woodstock Center is ecumenically open, multi-disciplinary, and collaborative with, among others, the business community, government, religious groups, universities, other research centers, and the media.")
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General Religious Studies Resources
Academic Info: Religion Gateway (formerly Comparative Religion: A Directory of Internet Resources for the Academic Study of Religion) (Mike Madin / Academic Info)
Homepage of Religion Gateway
Religous Studies Resources
American Academy of Religion
The APS Research Guide to Resources for Theological and Religious Studies (Michael Fraser,St. Michael's U.,Toronto)
Christian Classics Etheral Library Homepage
Society, Religion, and Technology Project (objectives: "to foster an informed understanding in society of the issues which confront it as a result of current and future technologies, and to inform the churches of key developments
To provide opportunities for technologists to reflect on the ethical implications of their work;To respond with considered judgement to Government bodies on technological issues;
To contribute actively to European and international debates on these issues.") (Church of Scotland)
Emile Durkheim
The Durkheim Pages
Homepage (Robert Alun Jones, U. Illinois in Urbana-Champaign)
Bibliography of Works by Durkheim
Durkheim Timeline
Glossary of Terms and Concepts
Synopsis of On the Division of Labor in Society (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago)
Synopsis of The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago)
Encyclopedia Mythica ("online encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, and legends. It currently contains over 6,100 entries on gods and goddesses, heroes, legendary creatures and beings")(Micha Lindemans)
John L. Gresham Finding God in Cyberspace: A Guide to Religious Studies Resources on the Internet (Catholic)
Glossary for the Study of Judaism, Christianity, Islam (Robert A. Kraft, et al., U. Penn)
Library GTU (Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley)
History of Religions (journal; tables of contents only)
Humanities Faculty and Research Positions: Religion (Chronicle of Higher Education)
HUMBUL Gateway to Religion & Theology (Oxford U.)
Intratext Digital Library (online texts of primary sources relating to religion and religious studies; Christian emphasis but links to Buddhist, Islamic, and Hindu texts as well)
Journal of Religion (tables of contents only)
Journal of Religious Ethics
Method & Theory in the Study of Religion (bibliography)(journal of the North American Association for the Study of Religion)
Mysticism in World Religions (Deb Platt)
Natural Theology (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Ontario Consultants for Religious Tolerance
Homepage (information about minority religions, religious hatred, etc.)
Selected Resources:
Descriptions of 63 Religions, Faith Groups, and Ethical Systems
Religiously "Hot" Topics
Philosophy & Theology
Pitts Theology Library (graphics mode)
Princeton U. Center for the Study of Religion
Relations Among Religions ("resources for enriching the appreciation of various faiths and for engaging in the practice of inter-religious toleration or mutual understanding") (Gene R. Thursby, U. Florida)
Religion and Philosophy Resources on the Internet (Sara A. Memmott & David Suiter, Boston U.)
Religion and the Arts (journal) (Boston C.)
Religion Depot (Po-Han Lin)
Religion News Service
Religion Religions Religious Studies (well-organized, academically-oriented "information and links for study and interpretation of religions") (Gene R. Thursby, U. Florida)
Religious Studies Internet Links (excellent metapage) (Michel Desjardins and Adrien Desjardins, Wilfrid Laurier U., Ontario)
Resources of Scholarly Societies - Religious Studies (U. Waterloo)
Silver Mountain Software (software and fonts for classical and religious studies)
THEOLDI: Documentation of Theological and Interdisciplinary Literature (search form for database of bibliographical citations) (School of Theology, U. Innsbruck)
A Guide to Finding Theological Book Reviews (Graham Library Guide to Biblical & Theological Research)(U Toronto)
Theology Glossary (bible studies) (Center for Biblical Theology and Eschatology)
Theory and Method of Religious Studies (annotated guide to online resources in past and present methods of study) (Gene R. Thursby, U. Florida)
Watchtower--Official Website of Jehovah's Witnesses (religious organization)(Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania)
Western Philosophical Concepts of God (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Women and Religions: Web Resources
Woodstock Theological Center ("nonprofit independent research institute at Georgetown U. that addresses topics of social, economic, and political importance from a theological and ethical perspective. Interdisciplinary and ecumenical by design")
Religion Hypertext Database
Worldwide Faith News ("searchable data base of full text news releases and other information, including policy statements, from national and world faith groups") (George Conklin)
Buddhism
Zen Buddhism
Korean Buddhism
Teachings from Korea (info on Korean Buddhsim with images and comprehensive text)(Daniel Trent Dillon)
Tibetian Buddhism
Tibetian Buddhism (historical introduction to the Five Principal Spiritual Traditions of Tibet
including the Bön, Nyingma, Sakya and other traditions)(The Office of Tibet)
Thai Buddhism
Thai Buddhism: Observations, Reflections and Ideas (Leslie Barclay)
A Challenge for Thai Buddhism (analyses "current social and economic climate" in Thailand and presents a "potential crisis for Buddhism" there) (John Knox)(Bangkok Post)
Japanese Buddhism
The Buddha's Words on Kamma (detailed info on exposition of Kammma in Buddhism)(Khantipalo Bhikkhu)(Buddhist Publication Society)
The Wheel ( an excellent site with several essays on various aspects of Buddhism)(accesstoinsight.org)
Non-religion Buddhist Philosophy (interesting info on logic of Buddhism, quotes and theory of Buddhist philosophy)(Sanuja Senanayake)
A Glossary of Pali and Buddhist terms (accesstoinsight.org)
About.com: Buddhism (Dick Dillon)
Alan Watts: Lectures and Essays (The Deoxyribonucleic Hyperdimension)
The Art of Tibetan Sand Painting (sand painting event on the Web by Tibetan monks) (Houston Chronicle Interactive)
Asynchronous School of Buddhist Dialectics (Tibetan Buddhist texts) (William Magee, Craig Peterson)
Buddhism Depot (Po-Han Lin)
The Electronic Bohidharma (Web site of the International Research Institute for Zen Buddhism, IRIZ, in Kyoto, Japan; includes texts and projects)
Friends of Buddhism
IRIZ: The Zen KnowledgeBase Research Project
Journal of Buddist Ethics (Penn State U)
Christianity & Bible Studies
7,000 Year Timeline (Biblical timeline) (Steve Pardue)
Autobiography of George Fox (edited with an introduction by Rufus M. Jones, Haverford C. / HTML by Harry Plantinga)
Bible Studies
Philip A. Harland (Concordia University, Montreal) Associations, Synagogues, and Congregations (Philip A. Harland (study of the context of Christian groups in Asia Minor, shedding light on John's Apocalypse, 1 Peter and others)
Reference Tools for Bible Study (Yale Divity Library)
The Formation of the New Testament Canon (Stephen Voorwinde, Reformed Theological College)
A Basic Vocabulary of Biblical Studies For Beginning Students (Fred L. Horton, Jr., Kenneth G. Hoglund, & Mary F. Foskett, Wake Forest U.)
Bible History Chart (1st century) (Java-based, interactive chart that plots significant events in the lives of Matthew, Mark, Luke, James, Paul, Peter, Jude and John against a time scale; pressing on the name of an apostle turns on or off events relevant to them) (requires Java-capa
Bibliographical Resources for Old Testament Studies ("a basic bibliography for the study of the Old Testament. Numerous additional sources are available for each category and may be of use to you, depending upon your topic. See especially the section "Bibliographies and guides" for additional sources")(Yale Divinity Library)
Bibliographical Resources for New Testament Studies (Yale Divinity Library)
Classical and Biblical Literature Research Tools (Jack Lynch, Rutgers U.)
The Dark Bible: Women's Inferior Status ("for the purpose of finding relevant passages that dealt with the wrath, scaological, and dubious moral teachings of God in the Bible)(The Secular Web)
Easton's Bible Dictionary
Ronald L. Ecker, And Adam Knew Eve: A Dictionary of Sex in the Bible (Electronic Edition)
The New Testament Canon (Biblical Studies.org)
Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts Web (paleography and other disciplines relevant to interpretation of New Testament texts) (Brown U.)
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible (searchable by section of the Bible)
New Testament Literature in English (course) (Michael O'Connell,U. Calif. Santa Barbara)
Resource Page for Biblical Studies ("These pages are intended as a resource for serious, scholarly studies of the early Christian writings and their social world")(Volga College, Norway)
Bible Texts & Software
Bibeln (Swedish Bible)
Bible Browser (searchable access to the Revised Standard, King James, and Vulgate versions) (Richard L. Goerwitz)
Bible Notes (summaries of both Old and New Testaments, review notes and keypoints) (BRN-PTRS)
Bible Windows (commercial bible studies program; Silver Mountain Software)
Computer-Assisted Bible Analysis (Harry Hahne, Ontario Theological Seminary / Chorus)
Deutsche Bibel (German-language hypertext Bible; extensively HTML-tagged) (Matthias Müller)
French Bible (Louis Segond translation)
King James Bible (hypertext)
King James Bible Arranged by Subject (Technische U., Delft, Netherlands)
King James Bible (search gateway to U. Michigan Humanities Text Initiative text)
KJV WinBible for Windows (downloadable program facilitating the search, display, and output of the King James Version Bible) (Ian Vink)
Gerald A. Larue, Old Testament Life and Literature (1968) (Secular Web)
Multi-Language Editions of the Bible (German/English and Latin/English parallel editions of the Bible; includes the Vulgate New Testament) (Abilene Christian U.)
The Old English Bible: Electronic Old-English Texts of Biblical Literature (Catholic Center at Georgia Tech)
The Postmodern Bible (information about, and excerpts from, a collectively-written volume of scholarly essays illuminating "the current multidisciplinary debates emerging from postmodernism by exposing the still highly contested epistemological, political, and ethi
Revised Standard Bible (search gateway to U. Michigan Humanities Text Initiative text)
The Tyndale New Testament ("only surviving textually complete copy of a print-run of 3,000 (possibly even 6,000) from the press of Peter Schoeffer in Worms") (British Library)
Vulgate Bible of St. Jerome (Latin)
Vulgate Bible (Brigham Young U.)
The Vulgate Project (Vulgate Bible formatted "to give the modern reader a more indexed and easy to follow edition"; available as plain text or as Adobe Acrobat and Postscript files) (Online Christian Classics)
World Wide Study Bible ("conceived as a means of organizing all of the Bible-related resources on the WWW according to scripture reference"; press on the link to a chapter of the Bible and go to a menu of all known online versions--e.g., King James, Revised St
WWW Bible Gateway (multilingual, searchable access to multiple versions of the Bible) (Calvin College, Michigan)
Calendar of Christian Historical Biographies ("reference page to biographies written by James Kiefer for the Christia Discussion List")
California Mission Studies Assoc. ("for the study and preservation of the California Missions and their Native American, Hispanic, and Early American past")
John Calvin, On the Christian Life (Institute of Practical Bible Education: The Electronic Public Library)
Catholic Pages
The Catholic Encyclopedia (collaborative effort to put online the 15-volume Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913, "covering a broad range of topics, secular and religious, from a Catholic perspective") (coordinator: Kevin Knight)
Catholic Perspective On: Women in Society and in the Church (Caltech Newman Center)
Daughters of St. Paul: Apostles in the World of Communication ("We are an international congregation of Catholic women religious communicating God's love through media technology")
The Missionary Cenacle Family ("Roman Catholic community dedicated to the preservation of the faith, service to the poor and abandoned, and the development of the laity"; in English and Spanish) (James Bolner, Sr., and Jo Gomez)
New Advent Catholic Website
Homepage
The Complete List of Popes
Fathers of the Church ("English translations of some of the Church Fathers, drawn from the 38-volume Edinborough collection")
On the Value and Inviolability of Human Life (Pope John Paul II)
The Vatican Web Site: The Holy See
Christian Classics Ethereal Library (Harry Plantinga, Wheaton C.)
Christian Depot (Po-Han Lin)
Church and Religion Links (Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles/Dan Crossland)
Church Burnings Information Page (Ron Starbuck / Trinity Episcopal Church, Houston, Texas)
Churches Ad Hoc: A Photo Essay by Herman Krieger (1996)
Computers For Christ (Carl W. Kalbfleisch)
Confraternitas: The Bulletin of the Society for Confraternity Studies
The Cyber Hymnal (hymn lyrics, sound files, background information, pictures of lyricists and composers, etc.) (Richard Adams)
Dead Sea Scrolls
Deism, English (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Deism, French (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Ecole Chronology Project (innovative, forms-based timeline of early church history organized both temporally and geographically: choose a temporal era to generate a page of available geographical coverage for that era, then choose a geographical locale to generate a list of
Ecole: Early Church On-Line Encyclopedia (sophisticated, in-progress hypertext encylcopedia of early church history) (Anthony Beavers, U. Evansville, with contributions from many hands)
Emanuel Swedenborg
Heaven and its Wonders and Hell (Primenet)
The Heavenly City: A Spiritual Guidebook (trans. Lee Woofenden) (mvdComm BBS)
The Heavenly City: A Spiritual Guidebook
The New Earth Swedenborg BBS (M.V. David)
English Literature & Religion ("large bibliographical database about religious aspects and backgrounds of English literature, from the Middle Ages to the present century") (William S. Peterson, U. Maryland, College park)
Faith Quest: Navigating Through the Desert of Doubt (resources "that I hope will be of some assistance to my fellow sojourners in their attempt to break out of the maddening silence of God's seeming absence"; includes online philosophical works by Marilyn Adams, Nicholas Rescher, Alvin Plan
Gregorian Chant Home Page
Gregory of Nyssa Page (translated texts and introductions to work of Bishop of Nyssa, ca. 335-394 AD) (David A. Salomon & Brother Casimir McCambley)
Guide to Early Church Documents (extensive HTML archive) (John Brubaker & Gary Bogart / Institute for Christian Leadership)
St. Ignatius of Loyola, The Spiritual Exercises (Christian Classics Ethereal Library)
Independent Bible Study (Bible-study guide based on a 1992 book originally in Portuguese by Bost & Pestana [1992], missionaries in Brazil)
William James, The Will to Believe (James Fieser, U. Tenessee at Martin)
John Henry Newman Page (Caltech Newman Center)
Thomas Kempis, The Imitation of Christ (Christian Classics Ethereal Library)
The Latin Liturgy Assoc.
Martin Luther: Selected Works (Project Wittenberg, Rev. Bob Smith)
Material Culture of the Ancient Canaanites, Israelites and Related Peoples: An Information Database from Excavations (Jon R. Abercrombie, U. Penn)
NetSERF: Medieval Religion (History Dept., Catholic U. of America)
The Order of Saint Benedict
Homepage
The Rule of Benedict: An Index to Texts On-Line and Gateway to its Bibliographic Index
Origen (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Orthodox Pages
Links to Orthodox Pages (Seraphim Rose Books)
The Orthodox Christian Page in America
Seraphim Rose Books (bookstore with Russian Orthodox, Greek Orthodox, Western and American Orthodox literature, icons, and related items)
TheoLogic Systems: Orthodox WorldLinks
Treasures of Mount Athos (exhibition relating to the monastic state of Mount Athos and the Byzantine Orthodox world) (Hellenic Ministry of Culture
The Oxford Movement and Its Leaders ("on-going bibliographic project conducted by Lawrence N. Crumb of the U. Oregon Library")
Project Wittenberg
Homepage ("classic and historic texts written by Lutherans") (Rev. Bob Smith, Concordia Theological Seminary)
The Book of Concord: The Lutheran Confessions of 1529-1580
Paul Gerhardt
Philip Melanchthon
Selected Works of Martin Luther
Religion, Society & Culture in Newfoundland and Labrador (Hans Rollmann, Memorial U. of Newfoundland)
Restoration Movement Homepage ("text and picture repository for restitutionist groups, notably: Disciples of Christi, Churches of Christ, Christian Churches, Winebrennerians") (Hans Rollmann, Memorial U. of Newfoundland)
Russian Icons (12th through 18th centuries) (George Mitrevski / American Assoc. of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages)
Seventh-Day Adventist Periodical Index (Andrews U., Michigan)
SisterSite ("a clearing house for information on women's religious congregations, the history of religious life, and the contemporary concerns of women in church and society. While its content and focus is primarily Catholic, it also hopes to serve the needs of those in other religious traditions") (Sister-L)
St. Augustine
Home Pages
Augustine Page (James J. O'Donnell, U Penn)
Augustine (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
St. Augustine (Tom Stone, EpistemeLinks.com)
Secondary Literature
fr. Edmund Hill, OP, "Augustine, A Male Chauvinist?" (1994)
Writings
Augustine's Confessions: A Bibliography (plain-text)
Confessions (Latin text) (James J. O'Donnell, U. Penn)
Handbook on Faith, Hope, and Love ("The Enchiridion: On Faith, Hope, and Love, by Saint Augustine (from Augustine: Confessions & Enchiridion, Newly Translated and Edited by Albert C. Outler, Ph.D., D.D., 1954, Digitalized by Harry Plantinga")
St. John Of The Cross (Christian Classics Ethereal Library)
Ascent of Mount Carmel (Christian Classics Ethereal Library)
Dark Night of the Soul (Christian Classics Ethereal Library)
A Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom Christ (Christian Classics Ethereal Library)
St. Peter's Online: A Guide to Parish Information and Internet Resources (St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Arlington, Virginia)
A Treasury of Latin Prayers (Michael W. Martin)
Truth: An International, Inter-Disciplinary Journal of Christian Thought
John Wesley
General Resources
John Wesley: Holiness of Heart and Life (Charles Yrigoyen, Jr.)
Writings
William Tyndale: Translator and Reformer (Tyndale Society)
Hinduism
Vedanta Philosophy
About Vedanta Philosophy (meaning of word Vedanta and brief description of Geeta)(Jim Gilman)
Vedanta (discussion of main ideas of Vedanta, subscritpion to free newsletter)(Joan Sotkin)
List of Vedanta centers in the US (Joan Sotkin)
Vedanta's Theism, Sankhya's Materialism and Lokayata's Rationalism (explores that Vedanta school was theistic, Lokayata school was materialistic and atheistic: Sankhya school was compromise between the other two schools)
(Sudheer Birodkar)
The Advaita Vedanta (explores the "philosophy of advaita, literally non-dualism", shlokas and other aspects of Vedanta)(S. Vidyasankar)
Vaishnavism
(info on Vaishnavism- philosophy, scripture, links to Ramanuja's summary of Upanishadic Philosophy, Vedanta Sutras, books) (Mani Varadarajan)
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