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Academic Info: New Religious Movements & Alternative Spirituality
Subject areas covered at this site underneath the religion link include: Alternative Spirituality; American Frontier History - Religion; Ancient History - Religion; Baha'i Faith; Biblical Studies; Bookstore;Buddhism; Canadian First Nations; Christian Studies; Gnosticism; Goddess; Hinduism; Holocaust Studies; Islamic Studies; Jewish Studies; Law & Religion; Mythology; Native American Religions; Pagan; Peace Studies; Rastafarianism; Religions in Canada; Religions in China; Religions in the United States; Religious Movements; Sikhism; Wicca; and Women & Religion. "The mission of Academic Info is to be the premier educational gateway to online high school, college and research level Internet resources. Academic Info selects, organizes, and reviews quality educational websites to make the increasing avalanche of information on the Internet accessible to students in an easy to use online directory."American Friends Service Committee
This site provides information about Quaker beliefs, history, etc. "The American Friends Service Committee carries out service development, social justice, and peace programs throughout the world. Founded by Quakers in 1917 to provide conscientious objectors with an opportunity to aid civilian war victims, AFSC's work attracts the support and partnership of people of many races, religions, and cultures."American Religion Data Archive
"The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) strives to democratize access to the best data on religion. Founded as the American Religion Data Archive in 1997 and going online in 1998, the initial archive was targeted at researchers interested in American religion. The targeted audience and the data collection have both greatly expanded since 1998, now including American and international collections and developing features for educators, journalists, religious congregations, and researchers. Data included in the ARDA are submitted by the foremost religion scholars and research centers in the world. Currently housed in the Social Science Research Institute at the Pennsylvania State University, the ARDA is funded by the Lilly Endowment, the John Templeton Foundation, and the Pennsylvania State University."The American Religious Experience: Group Studies
This website is made up of four articles. These articles cover how religion played a role in the history of Americanist heresy, Pentecostalism, Why the christian right survives and does not thrive , and a video talking about Jewish survival in Appalachian communities in the United States. The articles come from a site that is branched off of West Virginia University.The American Religious Experience: Women and American Religion
This web site contains articles about women who played important roles in the history of certain religions. The articles discuss such individuals and events like Phoebe Palmer, the institutionalization of Methodist Mission, and the Life of Frances Willard. The articles come from a site that is branched off of West Virginia University.Best Information on the Net: Religion
This guide, maintained by Stella Herzig at the St. Ambrose University Library, is a good starting point for general research. Topics listed include Catholicism, Christianity, General Religion Sources; World Religions, and Religious Controversies.Bible Study Tools
This source provides commentaries, concordances, dictionaries, lexicons, and history sources related to the Bible. Acknowledgments of sources used are listed on the front page of the site. Many individual works list authors.Blood Sacrifice and the Nation: Revisiting Civil Religion
This article, from the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, discusses nationalism as a religion in the United States. Author credentials are listed at the top of the page.A Brief History of Islam in the United States
This web site gives an essay written by Elisabeth Siddiqui on the history of Islam in the United States. Elisabeth Siddiqui is a professor at Colorado State University and has written several articles on Islam. This page gives a brief account of Muslims in the United States from when they first arrived. Sources are cited at the bottom of the text.Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library
This list of scholarly World Wide Web resources has been compiled by Dr. Matthew Ciolek, the Head of the Internet Publications Bureau at the Research School of Asian and Pacific Studies . The site is part of the WWW Virtual Library. It includes information on Pure Land Buddhism, Zen Buddhism; Buddhist art, and more.Archeological, Conservation and Preservation Projects at California Missions and Other Hispanic Sites
This site includes pictures and blueprints of missions from the California area.Catholic Online
"The mission of Catholic Online (COL) is to accurately represent the Catholic religion: its past and present." Information is available here about saints and angels, as well as Catholic news.Center for the Study of Religion: Links
"The objective of the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University is to encourage greater intellectual exchange and interdisciplinary scholarly studies about religion among faculty and students in the humanities and social sciences. The Center is committed to scholarly research and teaching that examines religion historically and normatively in its diverse manifestations." Categories of links include: General Religion Sites; Christianity; Judaism; Islam; Religions of the Americas; Hinduism; Buddhism; Baha'i; Native American; and Atheism.Christian Classics: Ethereal Library
The Christian Classics Ethereal Library is located at Calvin College. "The Library" links to online full text reproductions of primary Christian works in the public domain. Both history and reference sources are included. It includes an Encyclopedia of Christianity, as well as biographies of church fathers.
The official site of this denomination includes information about the history, beliefs, facts, policies, and sacred writings of this Christian denomination.Cults and Religion: An Academic Approach to the Study of Religion
Irving Hexham, from the University of Calgary, maintains this list of links that explore the scholarly study of religious thought. Areas covered in the Academic Links section of the site include academic journals,cults, databases, African initiated religious movements, and historic religions, as well as other related Web sites.Current Cites
This is a service of the Berkeley Digital library SunSITE. In this site "[a] team of librarians and library staff monitors information technology literature in both print and digital forms, each month selecting only the best items to annotate for a free publication. The resulting issue of 10-15 annotated citations of current literature is E-mailed to a mailing list. The user can dynamically create their own Bibliography On-Demand. The items that are freely available on the Internet are also retrieved and indexed so that the user can perform an Article Search of the full text of these items."Digital Librarian: Religion and Philosophy
"Digital Librarian is maintained by Margaret Vail Anderson, a librarian in Cortland, New York." This site includes a number of annotations recommending philosophy resources.The Ecole Initiative
This encyclopedia includes information about early Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Information available at this site includes translations of primary documents, essays on topics and individuals, a glossary, images, and a timeline. "The Early Church On-Line Encyclopedia (Ecole) Initiative is a cooperative effort on the part of scholars across the internet to establish a hypertext encyclopedia of early Church history (to the Reformation) on the World-Wide Web. In principle, authors of the various articles that make up the encyclopedia maintain their own articles at their own locations." "Each article is also linked to the Contributors' Index, which provides a brief biography for each author along with links to other articles by the same author."First Things: A Journal of Religion and Public Life
This electronic journal includes articles often written by scholars in the field of religion. Although most of the articles are not referenced, most of the authors are faculty members at institutions of higher education. The Institute on Religion and Public Life sponsors this publication.Hartford Institute for Religion Research
This organization describes themselves as follows: "We are a group of scholars who study religious groups and organizations. We are part of Hartford Seminary. Each of us teaches, does research, and writes on a diverse set of religious topics. We do not directly address theological or biblical questions, rather we study the social scientific dynamics of religious organizations." Topics covered include the Sociology of Religion; Organizations; Research Areas; and Congregational Resources.Hispanic Theological Initiative
The links and publications area of this site (under resources) provides the full-text of occasional papers and links to Web sites related to Hispanic theology.The History of Buddhism
This web site comes from personal web pages for faculty, staff, departments, and organizations out of Shippendsburg University. Dr. C. George Boeree, a professor of psychology, has a web site that discusses a history of Buddhism which includes how the religion made its way to The West. He also points out other significant events that took place in the history of Buddhism.History of Islam in the United States
This paper on the history of Islam in the United States is authored by Dr. Ibrhaim Abdurrahman Farajaje. He is Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Cultural Studies and Islamic Studies at Starr King School for the Ministry. He presented this report on April 25, 2004 at the Pacific Coast Theological Society's annual conference. The Professor takes you through the history of Islam and how it was brought to the United States and the trail and tribulations it went through.Intute: Arts and Humanities
This site, supported by Oxford University, provides links to several full-text religion resources. The staff of the site are professional philosophers, librarians, and social scientists. Areas of emphasis include American Studies; Archaeology; Classics; History; History and Philosophy of Science; Humanities (computing); Humanities (general); Linguistics; Manuscript Studies; Museum/Library/Achieve; Philosophy; Religion and Theology; Modern Languages (general); English Studies; French Studies; and German Studies.Image and Text Database on the History of Christianity
"The AdHoc Image and Text Database on the History of Christianity is a faculty-library initiative at Yale Divinity School that provides digital resources for teaching and research related to the history of Christianity."Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research: Cultural Links
This page includes links to full-text journals in the field of religion.
This page provides links to a number of research organizations.Internet Resources for the Study of Judaism and Christianity
The Department of Religious Studies of the University of Pennsylvania sponsors this site. Categories included are: Reference; Texts and Translations; Language; Papyrology, Palaeography and Textual Criticism; Archaeology; Jewish History and Literature; Christian History and Literature; Islamic History and Literature; Ecumenical Organizations; Course Materials; Libraries; Journals, Newsletters and Series; Software; and Prospects.JewishEncyclopedia.com
"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."The Journal of Southern Religion
This journal is "devoted to the study of religion in the American South. The Journal of Southern Religion is a fully peer-reviewed academic journal reflecting the best traditions of objective and critical scholarship in the study of religion. The Journal of Southern Religion is published, in its entirety, on the World Wide Web."
This annotated list of Internet resources has been compiled by professional librarians. Topics included are: Angels; Astrology; Atheism; Baha'i Faith; Bible; Buddhism; Creationism; Christianity; Church and State; Dead Sea Scrolls; Divination; Druidism; Enneagram; Existentialism; Folklore; Futurism; Gay & Lesbian; Hare Krishnas; Hinduism; Humanism; Hymns; Ifa; Islam; Jainism; Judaism; Kaballah; Koran; Liturgies; Millennialism; Missions; Monastic life; Mythology; New Thought; Objectivism; Pacifism; Paganism; Paranormal; Philosophy; Philosophers; Pragmatism; Religious Freedom; Saints; Scientology; Secularism; Sikhism; Spirituality; Statistics; Stoics; Taoism; Theosophy; Transcendentalism; Unitarians; Utopias; Witchcraft; Zen Buddhism; and Zoroastrianism.The Material History of American Religion Project
This site, supported by Lilly Endowment, Inc., explores the American religious heritage by focusing on historical objects and documents, (including photographs and realia), an electronic journal and a list of other on-line resources.Mennonite Quarterly Review
This refereed journal includes information about the Radical Reformation, Amish, Mennonites and Hutterites.Methodist Web Exhibits
This page, from John Rylands University Library of Manchester, includes links to digitized images and manuscripts, an online exhibit entitled "British Methodism and the Poor," an online exhibit entitled "John Wesley: An Online Exhibition," as well as biographies and diaries of Methodist preachers.Monastic Matrix
These pages are "a repertory that aims to document all women’s religious communities from 400-1600 CE."The Pluralism Project: Selected Links
The Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard Divinity School maintain this site. The links represent a wide variety of religious traditions including: Afro-Caribbean; Baha'i; Buddhism; Christianity; Confucianism; Hinduism; Islam; Jainism; Judaism; Native American; Paganism; Shinto; Sikhism; Taoism; and Zoroastrianism.Research Guide for Christianity: Selected Internet Sites and Electronic Texts
The Yale Divinity Library has created this comprehensive site to aid users in the study of Christianity. Some of the subject areas covered include information about the Bible, church/ denominational/ ecumenical resources, church history, ethics and social issues, missions history and world christianity, systematic/ doctrinal theology, practical theology, and religion and the arts.
Religion in the South and Religious Life in the United States Lectures
Terry Matthews, Wake Forest University, has posted his lectures for two classes about religion in the United States on the Web.Religion, Society & Culture in Newfoundland and Labrador
Documented sources about religion in Newfoundland and Labrador are provided on this site. Scholarly works about this topic and statistical sources are provided.Religious Movements
Jeffrey K. Hadden and sociology students at the University of Virginia create the content for this site. Under profiles of religious movements, there is a list of group profiles, links, and information that provide comprehensive coverage of many different sects, cults, and denominations. Each entry includes a summary, links to web sites and a bibliography of print sources. Groups covered include: Adidam The Way of the Heart; African Methodist Episcopalian Church; Alcoholics Anonymous; AME Church; Amish; Ananda Church of Self Realization; Ananda Marga Yoga Society; Anglo-Israelism; Assemblies of God; Atheism; Atherius Society; Association for Research and Enlightenment; Aum Shinrikyo; Baha'i Faith; Baptists, Primitive; Baptists, Southern; Boston Church of Christ; Branch Davidians; Branhamism; the Brethren; British-Israelism; Brownsville Revival; Bruderhof; Buddhism; Call to Renewal: Christians for a New Political Vision; Calvary Chapel; Campus Crusade for Christ; Cao Daism; Channeling; Charismatic Movement; Chen Tao [The Right Way]; Children of God; Chopra, Deepak; Christadelphians; Christian Coalition; Christian Identity Movement; Christian and Missionary Alliance; Christian Reconstructionism; Christian Reformed Church in America; Christian Science; Christianity in Japan; Church in Island Pond; Church of God (Cleveland); The Church of God (7th Day); The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Church of God International; Church of the Nazarene; Church of the New Jerusalem; Church of Satan; Church of Set; Church Universal and Triumphant; Concerned Christians; Course in Miracles; Deepak Chopra;
Discordianism; Divine Light Mission; Druids; Eckankar; Elan Vital; est; Falun Gong; Religious Freedom in China: Falun Gong; The Family; Father Divine; Feng Shui; The Forum; First Church of Christ, Scientist; Foundation of Human Understanding; Foursquare Gospel Church; Freemasonry; Fundamentalism; Garvey, Marcus; Gnosticism; Gurdjieff; Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization (3HO); Hare Krishnas; Hasidism; Heaven's Gate; Heaven's Gate Profile; Extended Coverage of Heaven's Gate; Hinduism; Holy Order of MANS; Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity; Huguenots; Hutterian Brethern of New York, Inc.; I Am; Institute of Noetic Sciences; Integral Yoga; International Churches Of Christ; International Church of the Foursquare Gospel; International Church of Scientology; International Peace Mission Movement; International Raelian Religion; International Society for Krishna Consciousness; Islam; ISKCON; Jainism; Jehovah's Witnesses; Jesus Army; Jesus Fellowship Church; Jesus People USA; Jonestown; Kabbalah; Konkokyo; Knights of Columbus; Landmark Education; Latter Day Saints; Latter Rain Movement; Lifespring; Local Church; Macumba/Condomble; Maitreya; Masada; Masons; Meher Baba Groups; Mennonites; Messianic Jewish Alliance of America; Methodist Church; Millennium Prophecies; Moody Bible Institute; Moody Church; Moonies; Moral Rearmament; Moravian Church; Mormons (LDS); MOVE; Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God; Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness; MSIA; National Baptist Convention, USA; Nation of Islam; Nation of Yahweh; Native American Religions; Nazarene; Neo-Paganism; New Age; New Creation Christian Community; New Thought; Nichiren Shoshu of America; Soka Gakkai; Nichiren Shoshu; Northeast Kingdom Community Church; Old Catholicism; Oneida Movement; Opus Dei; Order of the Solar Temple; Osho; Para-Religious Movements; Amway; A Virtual Tour of Direct Sale Organizations (DSOs); DSO Links; Paramahansa Yogananda; Pentacostalism; Primitive Baptists; The Process; Peoples Temple; Philadelphia Church of God; Process Church of the Final Judgment; Promise Keepers; Quakers; Ramtha's School of Enlightenment; Raelians; Rajnesshism; Ramakrishna Order of the Vendanta Society; Rastafarianism; Rebirthing; Religious Science (United Church of); Reorganized Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God; Restoration Movement; Churches of Christ; Disciples of Christ and churches of Christ; Roman Catholicism; Rosicrucian Order, AMORC; Sahaja Yoga; Salem Witch Trials; Salvation Army; Santeria; Satanism, Introductory Index; The Church Of Satan; The Temple of Set; Satanism in Popular Culture; Scientific Pantheism; Scientology; Secular Humanism; Seicho No Ie; Self-Realization Fellowship; Seventh-Day Adventists; Shakers; Shamanism; Shambhala International; Shirdi Sai Baba; Shinreikyo; Shinto; Sikh Dharma; Healthy; Sikhs; Silva Mind Control; Silva Method; Snake Handlers; Society of Friends; Soka Gakkai; Solar Temple; Southern Baptists; Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); Spiritual Discovery (Suma Ching Hai); Spiritualism; Sri Chinmoy; Sukyo Mahikari; Suma Ching Hai; Swedenborgianism; Synanon; Synchronicity Contemporary Meditation; Taoism; The Temple of Set; Tenrikyo; Theosophy; Toronto Blessing; Transcendental Meditation; Twelve Tribes; Two X Twos; UFO Cults; Atherius Society; Chen Tao [The Right Way]; Heaven's Gate; Raelians; Unarius Academy of Science; Unarius Academy of Science; Unification Church; Unitarian Universalist; United Church of Religious Science; United Methodist Church; United Pentacostal Church International; United Society of Believers; Unity School of Christianity; Universal Negro Improvement Association; Universal Life Church; Universal Peace; Mission Movement; Urantia Brotherhood; Vendanta Society; Vineyard Churches; Watchtower and Bible Tract Society; The Way International (the way); Wicca; Willow Creek Community Church; Woman's Christian Temperance Union; Worldwide Church of God; Zen Buddhism; Zoroastrianism; Zoroastrianism Main Page; The Zarathushtrian Assembly; and Conservative Zoroastianism.Religious Studies Web Guide
Saundra Lipton, a librarian at the University of Calgary Library, authors a list of links to a wide range of religious resources on the World Wide Web. Subjects covered include: General; Bahai; Biblical Studies; Buddhism; Christianity; Confucianism; Hinduism; Islam; Jainism; Jewish-Christian Relations; Judaism; Latter-day Saints; Liturgy; Music; Mythology; Saints; Shinto; Sikhism; Taoism; Women; Zoroastrianism; and Other.
"This web site seeks to assist leaders and participants in Christian communities, scholars and other interested publics in better understanding the impact, trends and trajectories of Christianity in American society. By providing both information and reflection on selected projects funded by the Lilly Endowment Inc." Projects funded by the Lily Endowment are described here, along with findings of the research.
" The Salvation Army was founded as an evangelical organization dedicated to bringing people into a meaningful relationship with God through Christ. Its doctrinal basis is that of the Wesleyan-Arminian tradition. It is composed of persons who are united by the love of God and man, and who share the common purpose of the organization - to motivate all people to embrace the salvation provided to them in Christ. The word "army" indicates that the organization is a fighting force, constantly at war with the powers of evil. Battles are effectively waged through an integrated ministry that gives attention to both body and spirit. It is a total ministry for the total person. The Army cooperates with churches of all denominations to meet the needs of the community. Those who have drifted away from God and those estranged from their own religious affiliations are often attracted to The Salvation Army. The are first urged to seek Christ for pardon and deliverance from sin. Then they are encouraged to return to active memberships in their own churches or to enroll as soldiers in a corps community center. Young people often are attracted through local music groups, youth camps, and recreational centers."
These organizational sites offer links about the history of this movement. Both sites provide hyperlinks to information by and about L. Ron Hubbard. Scroll down either page to discover links about the historical and current perspectives of this group.Selected Anabaptist-Related Links
Link to Mennonite and Amish sites from this page including groups, communities, history, people and events, reformers, documents, and more general information.Subject Guides at Hartford Seminary Library
Librarians at Hartford Seminary Library have compiled links to information about a variety of religions. The site includes information about Buddhist Resources Guide; Congregational Studies; Frederick Douglass; Faith and Health; Holidays; Hymns and Hymnody; Latino/Latina Religion; Negro Spirituals; Sources for New Testament Studies; Orthodox Christianity in America; Resources for the Study of Islam; and Women in Islam.This Far by Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys
This site "examines the African-American religious experience through the last three centuries. . . . [and] explores hte connections between faith and the development of African-American cultural values."
This site provides information supporting the conservative viewpoint within Judaism.
This site links to full-text sources about Methodist history in the United States and the world.
Access this site to retrieve information about the political, ecclesiastical and economic work of the Catholic Church.Varieties of Orthodox Judaism
Eliezar Segal, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Calgary, maintains this image map that explains the variety of ways in which Orthodox Judaism is expressed.Virtual Religion Index
Resources available at this site include information about American Studies; Ancient Near East; Anthropology & Sociology; Art & Archaeology; Biblical Studies; Buddhist Tradition; Christian Tradition; Comparative Religion; Confessional Agencies; East Asia; Ethics & Moral Values; Greco-Roman Studies; Hindu Studies; Islamic Tradition; Judaic Studies; Philosophy & Theology; and Psychology of Religion.Voice of the Shuttle: Religious Studies Page
Alan Liu, of the University of California, Santa Barbara Department of English maintains this resource that includes information about Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Sikhism, atheist, and science and religion.Wesley Center for Applied Theology
Northwest Nazarene University sponsors this site that provides links to full-text reproductions of documents related to Wesleyan traditions.The Wesleys and Their Times
This site includes digitized images of primary and secondary materials related to John Wesley, Charles Wesley, and Susanna Wesley.
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