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BIBLE

Mark Goodacre's NT Gateway

ABZU     index to journals and periodicals for the academic study and interpretation of the Ancient Near East available on the Internet.

BSW Journal [Biblical Studies on the Web] 

ATLA WWW Guide to Theological & Religious Reference Works

Audio Bible in Downloadable MP3 Files

Holy Land Maps (1500 to 1920) Collection of over 1,000 Maps of the Holy Land from the Eran Laor Collection

e-Catena: Compiled Allusions to the NT in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

Wabash Center  A selective, annotated guide to a wide variety of electronic resources of interest to those who are involved in the study and practice of religion: syllabi, electronic texts, electronic journals, websites, bibliographies, listserv discussion groups, liturgies, reference resources, software, etc.

Blackwell Publishers Theology & Religion Resources Site

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RELIGION

The Association of Religion Data Archives (formerly American Religion Data Archive) The ARDA allows you to interactively explore the highest quality data on American and international religion using online features for generating national profiles, maps, church membership overviews, denominational heritage trees, tables, charts, and other summary reports. Over 350 data files are available for online preview and most can be downloaded for additional research.

ATLA Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative provides a freely available, web-searchable, central repository of digital resources contributed by participating libraries. CDRI enables member libraries both to create digital resources and to benefit from the digital projects of other libraries.

Blackwell Publishers Theology & Religion Resources Site

Christian News & Research topical discussions hosted by Christianity Today.

ATLA WWW Guide to Theological & Religious Reference Works

Finding God in Cyberspace a wide variety of links to denominations, sects, religions of every persuasion.

Religious Tolerance "To promote religious tolerance and freedom. To describe religious faiths in all their diversity. To describe controversial topics from all points of view."

Hartford Institute for Religion Researchhas a twenty seven year record of rigorous, policy relevant research, anticipation of emerging issues and commitment to the creative dissemination of learning. Presents summaries of current religion research by Hartford Institute for Religion Research faculty as well as that done by other sociologists of religion.

The Howard Center works to return America to Judeo-Christian values and supports traditional families and gender roles for men and women. It studies the evolution of the family and the effects of divorce on society.

Religion in Latin America This site provides information, research, discussion, and analysis of religion in Latin America. The site emphasizes history of Catholic, Protestant, Pentecostal, Evangelical, indigenous, and Afro-Latin American religions. Sources for religion and politics are treated in detail. References for theology of liberation and other Latin American theologies are given. Key documents and statistics about the Catholic Church are provided at the site. The full text for three books are available and downloadable.

The Revealer religion in the news--a daily review.

Virtual Religion Index 

Wabash Center  A selective, annotated guide to a wide variety of electronic resources of interest to those who are involved in the study and practice of religion: syllabi, electronic texts, electronic journals, websites, bibliographies, listserv discussion groups, liturgies, reference resources, software, etc.

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RESEARCH

The Association of Religion Data Archives (formerly American Religion Data Archive) The ARDA allows you to interactively explore the highest quality data on American and international religion using online features for generating national profiles, maps, church membership overviews, denominational heritage trees, tables, charts, and other summary reports. Over 350 data files are available for online preview and most can be downloaded for additional research.

ATLA RIMŽ Online a freely available database that indexes D.Min. projects from reporting schools of theology accredited by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada. Indexing began in 1981. Author, title, project advisor, institution, and subject access are provided. In addition, an abstract for each project is included when one has been provided by the author.

Foreign Doctoral Dissertations: Center for Research Libraries (CRL)

ATLA WWW Guide to Theological & Religious Reference Works

American Religious Identification Survey large-scale national survey of religious identification conducted among Americans in the twenty-first century, and summarized in this report.

Badke's Research Strategies some useful tips on using library resources

Dissertation Abstracts

Harvard Educational Review 

Index to Book Reviews in Religion (IBRR) returns review citations by author, title or subject. Requires login/password--ask at Ref Desk.

Research Reporter

Pluralism Projectstudies and documents the growing religious diversity of the United States, with a special view to its new immigrant religious communities.

Theses Canada Search AMICUS, Canada's national online catalogue, for bibliographic records of all theses in Library and Archives Canada's theses collection, which was established in 1965; Access and search for free the full text electronic versions of Canadian theses and dissertations that were published from the beginning of 1998 to August 31, 2002

The Journal: Technological Horizons in Education integrating technology on campuses and into their curricula.

Wabash Center  A selective, annotated guide to a wide variety of electronic resources of interest to those who are involved in the study and practice of religion: syllabi, electronic texts, electronic journals, websites, bibliographies, listserv discussion groups, liturgies, reference resources, software, etc.

World Christian Databaserepresents the core data from the World Christian Encyclopedia (WCE) and World Christian Trends (WCT).

World Christian Encyclopedia + World Christian Trends "An AD 2001 reality check: 50 new facts and figures about trends and issues concerning empirical global Christianity today."

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FAITH

American Religious Identification Survey large-scale national survey of religious identification conducted among Americans in the twenty-first century, and summarized in this report.

BeliefNet news & links across Christian denominations and world religions.

The Revised Common Lectionary

The Text This Week resources & links for preparing sermons.

Christianity: Selected Journals

Christian News & Research topical discussions hosted by Christianity Today.

American Women in Religion

Faith Based Initiatives

Finding God in Cyberspace a wide variety of links to denominations, sects, religions of every persuasion.

Religious Tolerance "To promote religious tolerance and freedom. To describe religious faiths in all their diversity. To describe controversial topics from all points of view."

Pluralism Projectstudies and documents the growing religious diversity of the United States, with a special view to its new immigrant religious communities.

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HUMOR

The Door Magazine: religious satire

Lingua Franca  folded in 2001, but the review in found through Chronicle of Higher Education: Arts and Letters Daily.

God CheckerBrowse the pantheons of the world, explore ancient myths, and discover Gods of everything from Fertility to Fluff with the fully searchable Holy Database Of All Known Gods.

Ship-of-fools a Christian website, specializing in humor, satire and popular theology.


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HISTORY

Ad Fontes (Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts)

ATLA Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative provides a freely available, web-searchable, central repository of digital resources contributed by participating libraries. CDRI enables member libraries both to create digital resources and to benefit from the digital projects of other libraries.

ATLA WWW Guide to Theological & Religious Reference Works

Catholic Classics Aquinas to Chesterton

Augustine's Confessionsin the Latin.

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CHURCH

The Association of Religion Data Archives (formerly American Religion Data Archive) The ARDA allows you to interactively explore the highest quality data on American and international religion using online features for generating national profiles, maps, church membership overviews, denominational heritage trees, tables, charts, and other summary reports. Over 350 data files are available for online preview and most can be downloaded for additional research.

ATLA Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative provides a freely available, web-searchable, central repository of digital resources contributed by participating libraries. CDRI enables member libraries both to create digital resources and to benefit from the digital projects of other libraries.

Christian News & Research topical discussions hosted by Christianity Today.

Adherents.com: a growing collection of over 41,000 adherent statistics and religious geography citations -- references to published membership/adherent statistics and congregation statistics for over 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, ultimate concerns, etc.

American Women in Religion

The Barna Group provides primary research of leadership and unique, strategic information and resources that help facilitate spiritual transformation in America.

Faith Based Initiatives

Digital Imaging Project of South Africa: A Guide to South Africa's Struggle for Democracy: anti-apartheid periodicals, 1960 - 1990

Finding God in Cyberspace a wide variety of links to denominations, sects, religions of every persuasion.

BeliefNet news & links across Christian denominations and world religions.

The Revised Common Lectionary

The Text This Week resources & links for preparing sermons.

Holy Land Maps (1500 to 1920) Collection of over 1,000 Maps of the Holy Land from the Eran Laor Collection

American Religious Identification Survey large-scale national survey of religious identification conducted among Americans in the twenty-first century, and summarized in this report.

Christianity: Selected Journals

Educause Review to help shape and enable transformational change in higher education.

eSermonssermon resources, illustrations, VBS, Lectionary, chatroom.

Greater Atlanta Presbytery  newsletter, directory and links.

Christian Leadership Worldcountry by country Christian statistics.

World Christian Encyclopedia + World Christian Trends "An AD 2001 reality check: 50 new facts and figures about trends and issues concerning empirical global Christianity today."

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SPECIALTIES

ALA Copyright Advisory Network

ATLA: Theological Libraries--historical sources essays regarding librarianship relative to theological settings and persons.

Africabib.org helps to fill the need to find scholarly information about its peoples. ...an excellent tool to begin missiological research on subjects related to Africa.

Far Eastern Economic Review Asia's premier business magazine.

Digital Imaging Project of South Africa: A Guide to South Africa's Struggle for Democracy: anti-apartheid periodicals, 1960 - 1990

Holocaust Museum

Journal of Blacks in Higher Education

Korea Times

Ms.

National Geographic--

New Moon

NRB. National Religious Broadcasters

OmniGlot provides a comprehsive overview of written language in all its forms. It also includes multilingual texts, tips on learning languages, a book store, some useful phrases in many different languages, and a ever-growing collection of links to language-related resources.  

The Spiritual Search Engine a eclectic array of websites of all matter of religions--orthodox, heterodox and heretical.  

The Journal: Technological Horizons in Education integrating technology on campuses and into their curricula.

Wired

Women & Theology  a selective, annotated list of links to Internet resources on women and religion,
feminist theology, or the feminine divine.

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WEBSITES

BeliefNet news & links across Christian denominations and world religions.

The Revised Common Lectionary

The Text This Week resources & links for preparing sermons.

Holy Land Maps (1500 to 1920) Collection of over 1,000 Maps of the Holy Land from the Eran Laor Collection

Online Theology-related Periodicals  by the College of St. Benedict + St. John's University

The Spiritual Search Engine a eclectic array of websites of all matter of religions--orthodox, heterodox and heretical.  

Wabash Center  A selective, annotated guide to a wide variety of electronic resources of interest to those who are involved in the study and practice of religion: syllabi, electronic texts, electronic journals, websites, bibliographies, listserv discussion groups, liturgies, reference resources, software, etc.

New York Public Library Digital Gallery  provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.

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