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NOTE: The following sites are thought to be useful to students and scholars researching the anthropology of religion. Such study may move in a wide variety of directions, and so a broad definition of what constitutes an anthropology of religion site has been observed. Sites are included here on the premise that they are informative for anthropologists, whether they be otherwise thoroughly objective or seek to promote a distinct point of view. Diversity of subject matter has also been sought. Users of these sites are expected to consider for themselves the value of the information found therein. Please contact the site manager if you have additional sites to recommend or specific commentary on listed sites. Thank you to everyone who has contributed.

LISTS OF LINKS 

Academic Info Religion Gateway: Religious Studies Links, by Mike Madin - http://www.academicinfo.net/Religionmeta.html

Beliefnet. "Founded by a former national editor for US News and World Report and the founder of The New England Monthly (Steven Waldman and Robert Nylen), this  ... site is a smorgasbord of inspiration, reportage, instruction, and commentary on religious and spiritual issues and experience." (Quoted From The Scout Report, copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2001). For those who want more controversy - http://www.beliefnet.com/

BBC: Religions and Ethics - http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/

Kent, University of, at Canterbury, WWW Resources for the Study of Religions - http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/thrs/resources/Index.htm#textsites

Librarians' Index to the Internet, Library of California, Religion Topics - http://www.lii.org/search/file/religion

Murphy, Michael, Professor, University of Alabama - http://www.as.ua.edu/ant/Faculty/murphy/419/419www.htm

Society Vertical Portal (links you may not find elsewhere) - http://keoz8.com/

Virtual Religion Index, Rutgers University (New Jersey, USA) - http://religion.rutgers.edu/vri/index.html

Voice of the Shuttle: Religious Studies Page (choose from menu), by Alan Liu, University of California-Santa Barbara (USA) - http://vos.ucsb.edu/

Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada), Religious Studies Internet Links - http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwrandc/internet_links.html

ACADEMIC ORGANIZATIONS

American Academy of Religion - http://www.aarweb.org/default.asp

Association for the Sociology of Religion - http://www.sociologyofreligion.com/

CESNUR, "the Center for Studies on New Religions, was established in 1988 by a group of religious scholars from leading universities in Europe and the Americas. Its managing director, professor Massimo Introvigne, has held teaching positions in the field of sociology and history of religion in a number of Italian universities. CESNUR's original aim was to offer a professional association to scholars specialized in religious minorities, new religious movements, contemporary esoteric, spiritual and gnostic schools, and the new religious consciousness in general." In recent years, the group declares that it has become more proactive, attempting to counteract false or misleading information disseminated through the media - http://www.cesnur.org/

International Association for the History of Religions - http://www.iahr.dk

North American Association for the Study of Religion - http://www.as.ua.edu/naasr/

Société Internationale de Sociologie des Religions / International Society for the Sociology of Religion - http://www.sisr.org

Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness, American Anthropological Association - sacaaa.org

Society for the Scientific Study of Religion - http://www.sssrweb.org

MUSEUMS, FOUNDATIONS, and still more ORGANIZATIONS
A small collection of the possible links that could be placed here.

Biblical Arts Museum; non-denominational museum focusing on artistic representations of biblical content - 
http://www.biblicalarts.org/

Boston University (Massachusetts, USA), School of Theology, Guide to Library Resources -  http://www.bu.edu/sth/library/guides/index.html 

Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School  - http://www.hds.harvard.edu/cswr/index.html

Hartford Seminary and the Hartford Institute for Religion Research, Sociology of Religion -  http://hirr.hartsem.edu/sociology/sociology.html

Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance - http://www.religioustolerance.org/ocrt_hp.htm

Ratner Museum; use of graphic arts to promote appreciation of the Hebrew Bible - http://ratnermuseum.com/

Vatican Museums - http://www.roma2000.it/zmusvat.html

RELIGIONS, RELIGIOUS PRACTICES, AND TEXTS

All-in-One Biblical Resources Search, by Dr. Mark Goodacre, University of Birmingham - 
http://www.bham.ac.uk/theology/goodacre/multibib.htm

Anthropology of Roman Catholicism Bibliography, Michael Dean Murphy, University of Alabama - 
http://www.as.ua.edu/ant/Faculty/murphy/419/Cathbib.htm

BuryatMongol.com: Shamanism, Folklore, and Poetry (Siberian shamanism) - http://www.buryatmongol.com/

Cults on Campus: provides references to a number of media articles from a variety of sources. It is not entirely restricted to campus issues - http://www.cultsoncampus.com/

East Asian Language and Thought, Resources for Study - http://www.human.toyogakuen-u.ac.jp/~acmuller/index.html

H-Catholic, H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine - http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~catholic/

Islam and Islamic Studies, including Muslims, Islam and the Iraq War: "This site from Dr. Alan Godlas, professor of religion at the University of Georgia, gives scholarly resources on Islam and related subjects. Perhaps not surprisingly, the page opens with a short list of pieces related to terrorism, including Yusuf Islam's (nee Cat Stevens) 'Terrorism has nothing to do with Islam' and statements from scholars of Islam speaking out against terrorism. The main body of the site, however, is given over to twelve sections of annotated links, which span maps, art, women's rights, the Qur'an, history, and much more. Godlas aims to provide 'a non-polemical view of Islam (including Sunni Islam, Shi'ism, and Sufism) and to a lesser extent of Judaism and Christianity.'" (Quoted From The Scout Report, copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2001) - http://www.uga.edu/islam/

Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project. Includes a photo gallery, calligraphy, artwork; multilingual Qur'an project, a Shi'ite encyclopedia, Islamic laws, and more. Site includes a search engine. At http://www.al-islam.org/

Meeting God: Elements of Hindu Devotion, online exhibit from the Houston Museum of Natural History and the American Museum of Natural History, New York, photographs and text by Stephen P. Huyler (two different versions can be viewed) - 
http://kaladarshan.arts.ohio-state.edu/exhib/meetgod/hp.htm and http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/meeting_god/index.html

Project Wittenberg, Works by and about Martin Luther and other Lutherans - http://www.ctsfw.edu/etext/ or
http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/wittenberg-home.html

Quaker Pages, from Peter Sippel - http://www.qhpress.org/quakerpages/qpages.htm. Quaker Writings now found at - http://www.qhpress.org/quakerpages/qwhp/qwhp.htm

Sacred and Religious Texts, from David Wiley, Utah State University (Utah, USA) - http://davidwiley.com/religion.html

Shamash, The Jewish Network - http://www.shamash.org/

Unitarian Universalism Links, from Juan Cole - http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jrcole/uua.htm

United Church of Christ Home Site and Links to Reformed Churches Worldwide (including Political and Social Activism on the Web) - http://www.ucc.org/links/index.html

Wesley Center Online, Northwest Nazarene University - http://wesley.nnu.edu/

ISSUES

Adherents.com: This is a growing collection of over 44,000 adherent statistics and religious geography citations -- references to published membership/adherent statistics and congregation statistics for over 4,000 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, etc. - http://www.adherents.com/

Council on Spiritual Practices. "The Council on Spiritual Practices is a collaboration among spiritual guides, experts in the behavioral and biomedical sciences, and scholars of religion, dedicated to making direct experience of the sacred more available to more people." - http://www.csp.org/index.html

Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity: "INCORE's handy Country Guide page has more than doubled its offerings. For each of the 42 countries currently featured, INCORE lists annotated resources for news and background information, related email lists and newsgroups, articles and documents, maps, NGOs, and other related resources. INCORE also now hosts a collection of over 200 full-text peace agreements, accessed via an interactive map. Additional resources for conflict study and links to associated sites can be found at the INCORE homepage. [MD]." (Quoted From The Scout Report, copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2001) - http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/home/

Queer Theory. Contains material on marriage and other issues relevant to the anthropology of religion. "Designed and maintained by Danne Polk in association with Erratic Impact's Philosophy Research Base, this metasite guides users to quality online and print resources in the fields of LGBT studies, gender studies, and queer theor...." (Quoted From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2001) - http://www.queertheory.com/

The Revealer - a daily review of religion and the press. "We're not so much nonpartisan as polypartisan—interested in all sides, disdainful of dualistic arguments, and enamored of free speech as a first principle. We publish and link to work by people of all persuasions, religious, political, sexual, and critical. The Revealer was conceived by Jay Rosen, chair of New York University's Department of Journalism, and is executed by journalist Jeff Sharlet and staff." -  http://www.therevealer.org/

U. S. Department of State, International Topics and Issues. Includes Holocaust, Human Rights, and Religious Freedom, among other topics - http://www.state.gov/interntl/

The Vanishing Protestant Majority [pdf]. (Quoted From The Scout Report, copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2001): "The Protestant ethic, long a subject of great interest to numerous generations of scholars (including the esteemed sociologist Max Weber), is one of the most debated subjects within the field of sociology. This recent report authored by two sociologists at the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center brings to light the fact that for the first time in the history of the United States, members of the Protestant faith will no longer constitute the majority of the population within the foreseeable future. The 23-page report, authored by Tom W. Smith and Seokho Kim, notes that the percentage of Protestants in the national population shrank from 63 percent in 1993 to 52 percent in 2002. Another interesting finding of the report notes that from 1993 to 2002 the number of people who said they had no religion rose from 9 percent to nearly 14 percent." - http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/04/040720.protestant.pdf

FOLKLORE AND MYTHOLOGY

AFU [alt.folklore.urban] and Urban Legends Archive. Material is classified by categories. This site is what you make of it. A search engine is included - http://www.urbanlegends.com/

Encyclopedia Mythica - http://www.pantheon.org/mythica.html

Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts, D. L. Ashliman, University of Pittsburgh - http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html

ARCHAEOLOGY AND RELIGION

ARTIFAX, newsletter Digest,  published by the Institute for Biblical Archaeology of New Brighton, Minnesota. The Digest contains reviews of newspaper, magazine and wire service articles dealing with Biblical archaeology and religious news. ARTIFAX reviews these articles but does not vouch for accuracy - http://www.msn.fullfeed.com/~scribe/artifax.htm

Egyptology Resources, University of Cambridge, England - http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk:80/egypt/

Exploring Ancient World Cultures, University of Evansville, Indiana, USA - http://eawc.evansville.edu/index.htm

Lascaux Cave, Official Web Site (Upper Paleolithic Cave Art) - http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/lascaux/en/

Megalithic Mysteries. This is a U.K.-oriented look at megaliths with lots of links on the subject. Site is in process of being transferred (noted in June 2003) to The Megalithic Portal found at  <http://www.stonehenge.uklinux.net/>. Find MM for the time being at - http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~aburnham/stones.htm

National Museum of the American Indian. Check out the Education and Exhibitions links - http://www.nmai.si.edu/index.asp

Repatriation and Reburial Issues - http://www.uiowa.edu/~anthro/reburial/repat.htm 

Rock Art Net - http://www.rupestre.net/rockart/ 

Rock Art Pages, James Q. Jacobs - http://www.jqjacobs.net/rock_art/

Upper Midwest Rock Art Research Association is dedicated to publicizing the petroglyph and pictograph research being conducted in the Upper Midwest of the United States - including but not limited to - Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North and South Dakota - http://www.tcinternet.net/users/cbailey/index.htm

HISTORY AND RELIGION

Caliphs and Kings: the art and influence of Islamic Spain - http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/online/caliphs/caliphsDefault.htm#

Ecole Initiative "Creating a Hypertext Encyclopedia of Early Church History on the Web" including such categories as: Documents (primary sources), Glossary, Articles, Images, and Chronology - http://www2.evansville.edu/ecoleweb/

English Literature and Religion Database: a bibliography and e-text database (nearly 7,000 records); and Common Prayer, the English Bible, hymns and music, metaphysical poetry, mysticism, the Oxford Movement, Puritanism, reference works, sermons and preaching, Lancelot Andrewes, Matthew Arnold, John Bunyan, John Cosin, John Donne, T. S. Eliot, Nicholas Ferrar, George Herbert, Richard Hooker, John Keble, William Law, C. S. Lewis, John Milton, John Henry Newman, Jeremy Taylor, Alfred Tennyson, and Thomas Traherne - http://www.inform.umd.edu/ENGL/englfac/WPeterson/ELR/elr.htm

Medieval Religion Texts from NetSERF. Covers the Bible, Holy Orders, Islam, Saints and Martyrs, Theology, and History. Site maintained by Beau A. C. Harbin - http://www.netserf.org/Religion/

Religion and the Founding of the American Republic (18th-Century America), from the Library of Congress - http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/religion.html

WORLD REGIONS and CULTURAL GROUPS

Al Bawaba, the Middle East Gateway, including "Religion and Society" and other topics - http://www.albawaba.com/

American Indian History and Related Issues, "a developing site supervised by Professor Troy Johnson and is dedicated to the presentation of unique artwork, photographs, video and sound recordings which accurately reflect the history, culture and richness of the Native American experience in North America and has been expanded to include Indian people of Central America and Mexico" - http://www.csulb.edu/projects/ais/

American Religion Data Archive collects quantitative data sets for the study of American religion - 
http://www.thearda.com/arda.asp?Show=Home

American Religious Experience Project - http://are.as.wvu.edu/

H-SAE, the Society for the Anthropology of Europe, American Anthropological Association, Links to Other Net Resources of Interest to Anthropologists of Europe - http://h-net2.msu.edu/~sae/links/

Immortal Wishes explores experiences of place, sacred landscape and spiritual transformation at a Shinto mountain shrine, by Ellen Schattschneider, a companion site with teaching resources for her book - http://www.brandeis.edu/~eschatt/ImmortalWishes/index.html

Native Americans--Internet Resources. This site also offers many juvenile/young adult resources - 
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/native.htm

Native Web: Resources for Indigenous Cultures Around the World. It's hard to classify this site; it has a bit of everything - http://www.nativeweb.org/

Religion in South Asia Section of the American Academy of Religion - http://www.acusd.edu/~lnelson/risa/

Shamash, The Jewish Network - http://shamash.org/

ESPECIALLY FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE EDUCATORS (K-12)

Genesis Project (about Creation Myths) from ThinkQuest.org - http://library.thinkquest.org/29064/main.html

National Council for the Social Studies, Teaching Resources. Use search engine or select link - http://www.socialstudies.org/resources/

Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences. "This dictionary is an electronic (database) version of a 900+ item dictionary authored by by Gary Parkinson, Ph.D. and Robert Drislane, Ph.D. The electronic version is fully searchable." - http://bitbucket.icaap.org/
 

DISCUSSION GROUPS AND ON-LINE SERVICES

H-Net (Humanities and Social Sciences Online) Discussion Networks; some pertain to religious subjects - http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/lists/; other services also provided at - http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/

Religion and Nature Gateway and Interactive Encyclopedia with over 1000 entries; includes ecological issues - http://www.religionandnature.com/

Religionwriters.com, the Official Website of the Religion Newswriters Association and Its Foundation - http://www.religionwriters.com/  (Check out the Reference Library!)

ON-LINE BIBLIOGRAPHY

Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, an on-line searchable bibliography from the University of Toronto (Canada), Bruce Alton, Project Director - http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/MandT/index.cfm
 

JOURNALS (Others may be found listed with other web site links; see also, Lists of Links)

At the Edge ("Exploring new interpretations of past and place in archaeology mythology and folklore") through 1998 - http://www.indigogroup.co.uk/edge/index.htm, succeeded by 3rd Stone - http://www.thirdstone.demon.co.uk/home.htm

Bioethics - http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0269-9702

Journal of Religious Ethics - http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0384-9694

Journal of Religious History - http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0022-4227

Journal of Ritual Studies. "Founded in 1987, the Journal of Ritual Studies deals exclusively with ritual in all its aspects. Our interdisciplinary audience includes scholars from anthropology, religious studies, sociology, psychology, performance studies, ancient, medieval, early modern and contemporary history, area studies, philosophy, art, literature, dance, and music." - http://www.pitt.edu/~strather/journal.htm
 

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