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RELIGION

Denominations & Ethnology: John Bulow Campbell Reference Resources

Barth Digital Library

Religious & Theological Abstracts provides objective summaries of articles appearing in scholarly journals in the fields of Religion and Theology. They list a wide variety of periodical literature, including Christian, Jewish, and other World religions. They provide English language abstracts of articles in English, Hebrew, Afrikaans, and major European languages.

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.

Blackwell Publishers Theology & Religion Resources Site

Christian News & Research topical discussions hosted by Christianity Today.

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 Research has 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.

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 RIM 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)

Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL)the Web version of a major biographical encyclopedia with excellent bibliographies.  Remains in almost constant production.

Center of Theological Inquiry

Christian Classics Ethereal Library

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

DIALNET:  a current awareness service and major index to "scholarly output in the Spanish language".  List of journals covered on the homepage under the heading "Búsqueda Rápida por Inicial", or, beneath that, by broad subject heading (e.g. "Humanidades").  3,315 journals and 9,550 essay collections as of 13 October 2006, including many in theology ("Religión. Hª de las religiones").  Includes some theses (tesis), too.

Dissertation Abstracts

Fides Quaerens Internetum (The Christian Theology Page): "a hub for locating serious Christian theological activity on the Internet".

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

Directory of Open Access Journals, Religion

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.

Intute, Religion & Theology an easy-to-use and powerful tool for discovering the best Internet resources for education and research in Creative Arts and Humanities.

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 Database represents 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."

Index theologicus (IxTheo):  a major index to the periodical literature and to articles published in essay collections, with subject headings in both German and English. From the Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen.  Captures permanently what appears initially in ZID Theologie, below.  "Period under review" (number of records by year of publication).

ZID (Zeitschrifteninhaltsdienst) Theologie:  tables of contents to recent journal issues and essay collections from around the world, with article-level subject headings in both German and English.  Browse alphabetically by title, or search using the "Find" feature on your browser.  Covers roughly the period between publication and appearance in the ATLA Religion Database (not to mention many titles never indexed therein), as follows:  records added on the 10th of the current month (Aktuelle Ausgabe), the previous month (Vormonat), and the month before that (Drittletzter Monat); and records added at about 8:20 p.m. on the previous day (Vortag), the day before that (Vorletzter Tag), and the day before that (Drittletzter Tag).  Records more than three months old disappear into the database Index theologicus, above.

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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 Project  studies 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 Checker Browse 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

Historical/Doctrinal Reference Tools and Resources: John Bulow Campbell Library

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.

Barth Digital Library

Catholic Classics   Aquinas to Chesterton

Augustine's Confessions in the Latin.

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CHURCH

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.

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.

eSermons sermon resources, illustrations, VBS, Lectionary, chatroom.

Greater Atlanta Presbytery newsletter, directory and links.

Christian Leadership World country by country Christian statistics.

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SPECIALTIES

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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.

The Spiritual Search Engine an 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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