Religious Studies Resources
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General
Academic Info: Religion - Internet resources for the study of religion; including pages on religious studies & comparative religion, Western, Eastern and American religions.
Allexperts Religion Directory - Experts from most major religions answer your one-to-one questions for free. Questions answered in confidence.
The Digital Theologian - A convivial and thoughtful weblog of news and information in the world of religion. Links to news, opinion and general interest web sites relating to religious themes and topics.
Exploring Religions - Overview of Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Extensive crosslinked glossary for each religion.
Finding God in Cyberspace - Selective guide to best Religious Studies resources on the Internet.
Holy Books of the World - A descriptive listing of mostly historic holy books.
Institute for the Study of Religion and Culture - Focuses on the religious communities located in Southeast Asia. Institute located at Payap University, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Interfaith Calendar: Sacred time of world religions - Sacred times are windows into religions. Celebrations and solemn observances of spiritual traditions present religious insights into the meaning of life.
Openings - Academic employment opportunities in Religious Studies.
Religion and World Views - Summary information about most of the world's religions and resources to find more information.
Religious and Sacred Texts - Links to sacred texts, from Baha'i to Zoroastrian, including non-canonical Christian texts.
Religious Studies Page - General information concerning a broad spectrum of world religions and scholars dedicated to "Religious Studies" or "Comparative Religions" as academic disciplines.
Religious Studies Web Guide - Sites for academic study of religions. Organized by subject, denomination, and format.
Virtual Religion Index - This site describes itself as an "index . . . designed as a tool for students with little time. It analyzes & highlights important content of religion-related websites to speed research. Hyperlinks are provided not only to homepages but to major subsites, directories & documents within. Our purpose is not to circumvent tours of worthy sites, but to cut down the time spent on surfing, click-throughs, and sorting of gopher searches."
Voice of the Shuttle: Religious Studies Page - A meta-list of Religious Studies resources on the net. Includes links to religious sites, journals, sociologists, papers, and sacred texts.
World Religions - Simplistic, sometimes erroneous overview of a few major world religions.
WWW Virtual Library: Religion - Includes sections on Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Taoism, Sikhism, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, Islam and Baha'i.
Academic Info: Eastern Religions Gateway - An annotated directory of Internet resources, includes separate pages on Buddhism and Hinduism.
Eastern Philosophy - Information and links regarding Eastern philosophy.
Eastern religions: a comparison - An article debating the similarities between islam, taoism and confucianism. religions of the east.
Ethics of Civilization to 30 BC - A study of the influence of philosophy and religion on civilizations, with sections on India and China.
Japanese Religions in America Selected English Bibliography - Resources for the study of the diverse Japanese religious traditions in America.
Meditation and Eastern Philosophy - References and commentaries on works derived from Eastern religions including the Dhammapada and the Upanishads.
Philosophy in Asia: 20th World Congress of Philosophy - Archive of contributed papers in the subject area of Philosophy in Asia.
Resources for the Study of East Asian Language and Thought
Shinto & Buddhism: Wellsprings of Japanese Spirituality - Article written by Paul Watt for the Asia Society's Focus on Asian Studies, Vol. II, No. 1, Asian Religions, pp. 21-23, Fall 1982.
Spiritual Traditions of China - Links and resources regarding Chinese philosophy and religion.
A Study of Eastern Philosophy - Detailed draft of a manuscript submitted to Oxford press with sections on Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, and Confucian philosophies.
Culture and Religion - A print journal that supports discussion of the relations between cultural studies and Religious Studies.
Diskus - International religious studies electronic journal edited by Brian Bocking and published since 1993. Abstracts and full text of articles.
Folklore - Electronic journal from Estonia that includes articles on various religious traditions.
History of Religions - Print journal. Subscription information and Table of Contents only.
Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies - Semi-annual peer-reviewed electronic journal. Articles, reviews, projects and conference news.
Japanese Journal of Religious Studies - Print journal. Index of articles and subscription information only.
Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory - Disciplinary and interdisciplinary e-journal for religion and cultural theory.
Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion - Table of Contents and subscription information for print journal.
The Journal of Hebrew Scriptures - Peer-reviewed scholarly e-journal. Abstracts and full text in multiple formats available.
The Journal of Religion - Print journal. Table of Contents and subscription information only.
The Journal of Religion and Film - Peer-reviewed e-journal that considers portrayals of religion in films. Index and full text of articles.
Journal of Religion and Society - An electronic journal from Creighton University for study of social dimensions of religions.
Journal of Religious Ethics - Abstracts and cumulative index of all articles, but no full text of articles.
The Journal of Southern Religion - Peer-reviewed e-journal for study of religion in the American South. Full text of articles and book reviews.
Listening Journal of Religion and Culture - Sample articles and contents of a print journal that dedicates each issue to a particular theme.
Marburg Journal of Religion - Electronic academic journal with articles across full range of interest areas and traditions, edited by Michael Pye.
The North Star: A Journal of African-American Religious History - E-journal peer-reviewed articles, conference information, research resources.
Nova Religio - New religious movements academic print journal. Table of Contents, selected articles, subscription information.
Religion - Print journal that offers partial online access.
Religion and the Arts - Print journal contents and covers, subscription information, plus online supplements.
Religion in the Lectures & Conferences - Online journal tracks current discussion of religion in news media.
The Strip - Experimental e-journal produced by U. of Colorado graduate students in Religious Studies makes striking use of hypertext.
Judeo-Christianity
All-in-One Biblical Resources Search - Gateway to 25+ bible and religious study resources, searchable by keyword or phrase. Includes resources about bible versions and translations, ancient history, Jewish, Christian, Gnostic sites, discussion lists, and more.
The Nag Hammadi Coptic Library - Site for the progress of the publication project of the Coptic Gnostic papyri from Nag Hammadi at Université Laval, with information on the nature and importance of the manuscript collection and summaries of the different documents which it contains.
Prime Time Preachers - Full text of book by Jeffrey K. Hadden and Charles E. Swann, published 1982. A look at the rise of televangelism, and a snapshot of the New Religious Right circa late 1980.
WebNexus: Judaism and Christianity - Links page for students and scholars of early Judaism and Christianity, offering a selective, annotated guide to a variety of web sites.
Philosophy of Religion
Philosophy of Religion Resources - This impressive site contains Medieval Resources (500-1500), Early Modern Resources (1500-1800),Modern Resources (1800-1960), Contemporary Resources (1960-present), Popular Resources, presentation on the philosophical Concept of God, ressources on Philosophy and Biblical Studies, Journals and Magazines. Book Reviews Other World Wide Web Sites.
Alvin Plantinga: The Analytic Theist - A website devoted to the philosophy of Alvin Plantinga, including papers by and about Plantinga.
American Catholic Philosophical Association Home Page - Steeped in classical sources and cultivating the Catholic Philosophical heritage, this tradition is known for creative engagement with major philosophers of every era and bold responses to the themes and issues of contemporary philosophy.
Analytic Philosophy of Religion - A broad range of resources (papers, links, etc.) on philosophy of religion in the analytic philosophical tradition, including religious epistemology, theistic arguments, medieval philosophy, and teaching resources and discussion groups.
Armadillo - Theology Online - Academic theology and philosoophy web directory.
Baptist Association of Philosophy Teachers - The Baptist Association of Philosophy Teachers (BAPT), organized in 1987, exists to support the teaching of philosophy on baptist campuses, to enhance the intellectual tradition of baptists, and to provide a forum for the integration of evangelical Christian faith with philosophical scholarship.
The Bernard Lonergan Web SiteŠ - The Lonergan Web Site is the virtual place for collaboration in Lonergan Studies.
Center for Philosophy of Religion - The Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame was established in the fall of 1976 in order to promote, support and disseminate scholarly work in philosophy of religion and Christian philosophy. It promote work concerned with the traditional topics and questions - the theistic proofs, the rationality of belief in God, the problem of evil, the nature of religious language, and the like.
Christian Faith and Postmodernity - An Index of WWW Resources, which include Web Sites, Journals and Magazines, Essays and Book Reviews.
Computer-Assisted Theology - Internet Resources for the Study and Teaching of Theology.
Cosmology and Theology - Reasoning known as the cosmological argument tries to justify belief in God by pointing to the existence of the cosmos, its causal orderliness, and alleged evidence of its being in some sense designed to include life and intelligence.
Faithquest - COntains sections on several theologians and philosophers of religion, including online articles.
Index on Materials of Philosophy from The Urantia Book - Developing a personal philosophy of religion.
Indian Philosophy and Religion - A Launch-pad to India's Spiritual Treasure. The site offers a general information, essays on Hinduism, Religious Texts, an overview of traditional and modern Schools, and other Religions, and an online Book Store.
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion - As an organ of no single institution or sectarian school, philosophical or religious, the Journal provides a medium for the exposition, development, and criticism of important philosophical insights and theories relevant to religion in any of its varied forms. It also provides a forum for critical, constructive, and interpretative consideration of religion from an objective philosophical point of view.
Jacques Maritain Center at University at Notredame - J. Maritain had been coming to Notre Dame to lecture and stay for short periods of time. Father Theodore M. Hesburgh, the president of the University, friend and admirer of Maritain, wanted to make the relationship permanent. The Center was founded 1957 to ensure that the thought and spirit of Jacques Maritain would remain at Notre Dame long after those present on the happy occasion of its founding were gone.
Library Home Page - University at California Santa Barbara - Include different on-line works on christian philosophy.
The Lublin School of Philosophy - Known also as Lublin Thomism and Christian Existentialism - this site contains basic information and articles.
Lux Veritatis: Dedicated to the Philosophy of the Catholic Church - A study of Catholic philosophy, St. Thomas Aquinas, and current issues.
Ontological Arguments - Ontological arguments are arguments, for the conclusion that God exists, from premisses which are supposed to derive from some source other than observation of the world. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Graham Oppy.
Pascal's Wager - An argument due to Blaise Pascal for believing, or for at least taking steps to believe, in God. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Alan Hájek.
Philosophy and Religion - Edited by Dr. R. T. Nolan, site includes issues in philosophy, theology, biblical thought, and ethics; papers by Cherbonnier and Kirkpatrick; Episcopal Church beliefs.
Philosophy of Religion - Collection of philosophy of religion articles and links.
Religion and Philosophy - A very good presented ressource page, including general indexes, e-texts and other links.
Religion and Philosophy Resources on the Internet - An annotated, selected listing of local and world-wide Internet sources for religion and philosophy, maintained by the Boston University School of Theology.
Society of Christian Philosophers - The Society of Christian Philosophers was organized in 1978 to promote fellowship among Christian Philosophers and to stimulate study and discussion of issues which arise from their Christian and philosophical commitments. One of its chief aims is to go beyond the usual philosophy of religion sessions at the American Philosophical Association and to stimulate thinking about the nature and role of Christian commitment in philosophy.
Theistic Philosophers on the Web - The following is a list of individuals who classify themselves as both philosophers and theists. They work in such diverse areas as metaphysics, epistemology, logic, action theory, ethics, aesthetics, philosophy of language, philosophy of logic, philosophy of science, philosophy of religion, philosophical theology, existentialism, phenomenology, political philosophy, and the history of philosophy.
Thomistic Tug-of-War - A review on Gerald A. McCool's "The Neo-Thomists" by Siobhan Nash-Marshall.
Understanding Reality: a commonsense theory of the original cause, Hlatky and Booth - Swedish-based philosopher, Stefan Hlatky - an understanding of reality is a prerequisite for the solution of individual and social problems
Wabash Center Internet Religion and Theology Links - Collection of resources on philosophers of religion.
Psychology of Religion
The Guild of Pastoral Psychology - Information about talks and conferences in London and Oxford on a applied Jungian psychology.
Journeying - Exploration of the interface between psychology and Shamanism. By Jeannette Gagan PhD.
Mindgate - A downloadable book illustrating a model of the human mind that the authors say is supported by biology, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, and the spiritual world.
On the Psychology of Religious Movements - A discussion of the features of psychological influence most common to spiritual movements.
The One behind the Many - Links for research into scientific and transpersonal models of consciousness, mysticism and reality.
Psychology of Religion - Resources for people interested in psychology and religion. Includes course syllabi, bibliography, theoretical perspectives, addresses of professional organizations, and William James's Varieties of Religious Experience.
Psychology of religion, UK - Abstracts for research articles published in journals, available online.
Spiritual Neurology - Brain science looks at spirituality, reincarnation, Deja vu information, spiritual aptitude test, and Near-death Experiences.
Science and Religion
Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences - Promoting the creative mutual interaction between contemporary theology and the natural sciences.
Chicago Center for Religion and Science - Providing dialogue between scientists, theologians, and other scholars on issues pertaining to how traditional concerns and beliefs of religion can be related to scientific understandings.
Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion (AAAS) - Promotes knowledge about developments in science and technology within the religious community, and provides opportunities for dialogue between the scientific and religious communities on ethical and religious implications of scientific developments.
Institute of Religion, Texas Medical Center - An ecumenical training institute, working to bring a spiritual presence to health care delivery.
Meta Listserver on Science and Religion - Moderated discussion list and newsletter dedicated to promoting the constructive engagement of science and religion.
Quantum Transformation - The quantum paradigm teaches that reality is entirely subjective, the perceived distance is constructed by the very act of observation, and thus, that the entire universe is a projection of the mind, and is maintained by our continuing observation of it.
Religion and Development - An examination of the role of religion in the context of development in low-income countries. Published by the Canadian International Development Agency.
Science And Religion - Personal website uses the methods of process theology to explore boundary questions of science and religion, including topics related to ecology and evolution.
Science and Religion Campfire Forum - Web forum about science and religion.
Spiritual Technology, Spirituality and Cyberspace - A research and teaching entity geared toward exploring the spiritual and metaphysical dimensions of emerging telecommunications and information technology.
Tapestry - The Institute for Philosophy, Religion, and the Life Sciences - Nonprofit institute that facilitates, promotes, and carries out collaborative research and scholarship.
Theology and the Sciences - Collection of essays and internet links addressing the past, present and future directions of theology, science, and their interactions.
Sociology and Religion
Adherents.com - A well organized directory with over 15,000 religious adherent statistics for over 1,200 different faith groups. How many Latter-day Saints are in Germany? How many Buddhists in Florida? Find out here.
American Religious Experience - The American Religious Experience Project encourages the depiction and study of the rich and varied tapestry of the American religious experience on the World Wide Web. The project directors welcome manuscript submissions.
Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR) - Established in 1988 and recognized in Italy as a public cultural institution in 1996, CESNUR is an international research center in the field of religious studies and new religious movements.
Institute for the Study of American Religion - The Institute was founded in 1969 in Evanston, Illinois as a religious studies research facility with a particular focus upon the smaller religions of the United States, such as minority religions, alternative religions, non-conventional religions, spiritual movement, and new religious movements.
New Religious Movements - Resource with numerous relevant links for anyone interetsed in understanding how religious groups emerge, grow, stagnate, reinvigorate themselves, and sometimes die.
Religion and Development - An examination of the role of religion in the context of development in low-income countries. Published by the Canadian International Development Agency.
Agnes Scott College - Department of Religious Studies. Independent, national liberal arts college for women grounded in the Judeo-Christian tradition but with an appreciation for pluralism.
Alma College - Religious Studies Department.
Arizona State University, Tempe - The Department of Religious studies brings together perspectives and approaches from history, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and literature to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the individuals and traditions that constitute religions and cultures. When students major or minor in religious studies they can tailor their program to suit their individual interests, such as focusing on a particular region of the world, or a particular religious tradition.
Bear Valley Bible Institute of Denver - A two year Bachelors/Masters degree program to train workers in God's kingdom. A work of the Bear Valley Church of Christ.
Brown University - The Department of Religious Studies offers a graduate program leading to the degrees of M.A. and Ph.D., with specializations in History of Religions: Early Christianity and Western Religious Thought.
Butler University - The Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies offers majors and minors in philosophy and religious studies as well as a combined major. The religious studies major offers students the opportunity to engage in critical and sympathetic study of various religious traditions, to study religious literature, to examine more general questions regarding the nature of religion, and to examine their own religious heritage and experience.
California State University, Chico - Department of Religious Studies. The academic study of religion at CSU, Chico, focuses on a) historical studies of Eastern and Western religious traditions; b)textual studies of the sacred writings in religious traditions; c) methodological studies which seek to understand and interpret religious traditions and cultural symbols; and d)cognate studies which relate religion to aspects of culture such as literature and the arts, ethics and law, psychology, sociology, and philosophy.
California State University, Northridge - The Religious Studies Department at California State University, Northridge offers a Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies. The Department encourages students to draw upon a variety of fields and disciplines for African-American Studies, Anthropology, Psychology, and Sociology. A major will be able to interpret religious texts, think both empathetically and critically about conflicting religious claims, acquire knowledge of the history of more than one major religious tradition, apply intercultural methods to religious inquiry and analysis, and articulate a perception of one's role in society, in both career and public service options.
Centre for Ministry Studies, University of Wales, Bangor - Empirical theology, psychology of religion and religious education are the main areas of research in the centre. PhD supervision is available. The Professor of Practical Theology welcomes informal questions regarding supervision.
Colby College - The academic study of religion focusing upon the origins and historical development of several of the world's major religious traditions with the goal of enabling students to understand and appreciate religious diversity in the modern world.
College of Wooster - Department of Religious Studies. The study of religion at Wooster explores the broad dimensions of the many forms of human religiosity. Religion asks questions of meaning, purpose, and value. Many of the fundamental debates of our society (abortion, euthanasia, sexuality, political and economic goals and objectives) are debates about fundamental ways of viewing the world and their related systems of value.
Cypress College - Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies.
Dartmouth College - The Religion Department offers instruction, from the introductory to the advanced level, in most of the world's major religious traditions: Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, the religions of the ancient Near East, the religions of Africa, and religious life in Native North America.
Duke University - The Department of Religion is one of the largest Humanities departments at Duke and one of the most prestigious departments of religion in the entire country. The Department offers instruction in all the major religions, notably Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism.
Emory University - Undergraduate Division of Religion.
Emory University - Graduate Division of Religion.
Florida International University - Religious Studies Department. The Religious Studies major serves as a basis for students who wish to pursue the study of religion or theology as a career, for students preparing for a career in counseling, education, business, law or medicine, or for students who wish to undertake a dual major in a related field of study. Both a B.A. and M.A. are being offered.
Georgia State University - Program in Religious Studies.
Harvard University - The Committee on the Study of Religion is a standing committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, comprised of instructors from both F.A.S. members and the Divinity School. Degrees offered include the Ph.D., Th.D., and B.A.
Marshall University - Department of Religious Studies. Course information, web resources, faculty info, insights and stories section, departmental journal, description of religious studies, links to articles by faculty, links to course syllabi, message from the Chair.
Princeton University - Department of Religion.
Providence College - Latin American Studies Program - Religion in Latin America, an educational resource for religion, society, and politics. This site includes statistics, documents in English and Spanish, information about radical choice, liberation theology, protestantism, indigenous theology.
Rutgers University - Department of Religion.
Southern Methodist University - Department of Religious studies offers B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in Religious Studies; minor in Religious Studies.
Stanford University - The purpose of Religious Studies is to understand and interpret the history, literature, thought, and social sturctures of various religious traditions and cultures. The department offers courses at the undergraduate and graduate level in the fields Asian Religions, Christianity, Judaism, Ethics and Philosophy of Religion, and Religion, Cultures, and Comparative Studies. The department offers programs in bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. degrees.
Syracuse University - The study of Religion at Syracuse is distinctive. From the introductory level through the Ph.D., the range of courses, developed within the College of Arts and Sciences, in contradistinction to a theological seminary, opens conversations with historians, literary critics, novelists,poets, philosophers, linguists, sociologists, psychologists, and anthropologists.
University of Bridgeport - The Program in World Religions at the University of Bridgeport grants the B.A. in World Religions. The study is non-sectarian and publicly inclined. All the major religions of the world are given attention.
University of California, Riverside - The Department of Religious Studies provides an opportunity to study diverse religious traditions of the world. Students are able to examine texts, symbols, myths, rituals, ideas, values, institutions, and intellectual (theological, philosophical, and ethical) systems of many traditions, such as Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, African and Native American religions. Religion is studied empathetically, descriptively, and critically with the aid of historical, exegetical, literary, philosophical, theological, and social-scientific (e.g. anthropological, socio-logical, and psychological) methods of inquiry.
University of California, Santa Barbara - Programs for the Study of Religion Worldwide, Religious Studies Department. Over 750 programs in Religious Studies/Theology listed, from colleges and universities across the world. Listed alphabetically and geographically.
University of Colorado - The Department of Religious Studies offers comprehensive programs leading to the Bachelor of Arts and the Master of Arts degrees in religious studies. The program aims to provide students with a broad knowledge of religion as a dimension of human culture, familiarity with a variety of approaches to the academic student of religion, training in advanced research skills.
University of Dayton - Department of Religious Studies. Presented from within the Catholic tradition, a major in Religious Studies at UD develops a broad scope of basic areas including biblical studies, moral questions, the teachings and history of Christianity and other religious traditions. There are also courses in the teachings of religion, religion and culture, and pastoral questions.
University of North Carolina - The UNC Department of Religious Studies is dedicated to the study of the world's religions as historical and cultural phenomena. Students and faculty explore religious traditions and their history, sacred texts, belief systems, rituals, and institutions. The UNC Department of Religious Studies is one of the oldest departments of its kind at an American public university. It was ranked third among the nation's undergraduate programs in religious studies, according to the 1993 Gourman Report.
University of Pennsylvania - The academic study of religion examines how the beliefs and values of contemporary and historical cultures shape and are shaped by societal factors, long-standing traditions, and distinctive forms of literary and artistic expression.
University of Wales, Lampeter - The Department of Theology, Religious Studies & Islamic Studies, University of Wales, Lampeter, offers a broad range of modules for BA (Hons) degrees. There are also opportunities for postgraduate studies, for M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees. Visit our site and discover more!
University of Wales, Lampeter - Tris Interactive - Discover new dimensions in the study of religion. Study religion in contemporary and historical contexts. Explore issues of identity, diversity, ethnicity, religious intolerance and interfaith dialogue. Read about Chinese Religions, Buddhism, Hinduism, New Age Religions, Modern Theology, Islam, Christianity, Sikhism, Judaism,Religion and the Media - and much more. Site produced by Dept of Theology, Religious Studies and Islamic Studies, University of Wales, Lampeter, U.K.
Western Illinois University - Religious studies is the academic examination of one of the most important phenomena of human culture.
