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
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/
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/
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
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/
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
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/
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/
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