Free Online Religion Resources

WEB GATEWAYS:

Yale Divinity Library Research Guide for Christianity:
http://www.library.yale.edu/div/xtiangde.htm
Wabash Center Guide to Internet Resources in Theology and Religion:
http://purl.oclc.org/ATSRW/wabash
Religious Studies Web Guide:
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~lipton/
Intute: Arts and Humanities:
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/
Virtual Religion Index:
http://virtualreligion.net/vri/
Google Web Directory: Religion & Spirituality
http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/

ENCYCLOPEDIAS:

New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge
http://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/encyc/encyc13/htm/TOC.htm
Encyclopedia Brittanica:
http://www.britannica.com/
The Encyclopedia of World History:
http://www.bartleby.com/67/
The Catholic Encyclopedia:
http://newadvent.org/cathen/
World Wide Encyclopedia of Christianity:
http://www.ccel.org/php/wwec.php
The Ecole Initiative: Hypertext Encyclopedia of Early Church History:
http://www2.evansville.edu/ecoleweb/
Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies (ORB): Encyclopedia:
http://www.the-orb.net/
Encyclopedia Mythica: [mythology]
http://www.pantheon.org/
Perseus Digital Library:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
http://plato.stanford.edu/
Jewish Encyclopedia:
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/index.jsp
The Literary Encyclopedia
http://www.litencyc.com
Divining America: Religion and the National Culture:
http://purl.oclc.org/ATSRW/divam
Encyclopedia of Religion and Society:
http://hirr.hartsem.edu/ency/index.html
Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online
http://www.gameo.org/

DICTIONARIES, GLOSSARIES:

Glossary for the Study of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam:
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~rs2/glossopt.html
Language Dictionaries and Translators:
http://www.word2word.com/dictionary.html
Postmodern Bible Dictionary:
http://www.bible.gen.nz/dictionary.htm
Dictionary of Theology:
http://www.carm.org/dictionary.htm
Biographical Dictionary:
http://www.s9.com/biography/

FACTS & RELIGIOUS STATISTICS:

American Religious Identification Survey 2001:
http://www.gc.cuny.edu/faculty/research_briefs/aris.pdf
U.S. Religious Landscape Survey:
http://religions.pewforum.org/
Frequently Requested Catholic Church Statistics:
http://cara.georgetown.edu/bulletin/index.htm
U.S. Congregational Life Survey:
http://www.uscongregations.org/
Christianity Chronology:
http://www.thenagain.info/WebChron/Christianity/Christianity.html
Adherents.com (Religious statistics)
http://www.adherents.com/
Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches
http://www.electronicchurch.org/
Association of Religion Data Archives:
http://purl.oclc.org/ATSRW/ARDA
Hartford Institute for Religion Research:
http://purl.oclc.org/ATSRW/HIRR
The Pluralism Project:
http://purl.oclc.org/ATSRW/pluralism
Religious Movements Homepage Project
http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/
Glenmary Research Center:Religious Congregations & Membership: 2000,
http://www.glenmary.org/grc/RCMS_2000/release.htm
Barna Research Online: research archive
http://www.barna.org/
World Fact Book: Countries of the World:
http://www.theodora.com/wfb

BIBLICAL STUDIES RESOURCES:

All in One Biblical Resources Search:
http://www.ntgateway.com/multibib/
The New Testament Gateway:
http://purl.oclc.org/ATSRW/ntgateway
Biblical Studies on the Web:
http://www.bsw.org/
World Wide Study Bible:
http://www.ccel.org/wwsb/
Resource Pages for Biblical Studies:
http://www.torreys.org/bible/
Bible Research: Reference Materials for Students of Scripture:
http://www.bible-researcher.com/index.html
The Unbound Bible:
http://unbound.biola.edu/
Liddell-Scott-Jones Greek Lexicon, etc. from Perseus Project:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/perscoll
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance - from bible.crosswalk.com:
http://bible.crosswalk.com/Concordances/
Lexicons - Brown, Driver, Briggs, Gesenius for OT, Thayer's for NT- from bible.crosswalk.com:
http://bible.crosswalk.com/Lexicons/
Review of Biblical Literature:
http://www.bookreviews.org/
iTanakh - Resources for Academic Study:
http://itanakh.org

TOOLS FOR SERMON PREPARATION:
[See also: Tools for Study of the Bible, above]

DENOMINATIONAL RESOURCES:
[See a more extensive listing at http://www.library.yale.edu/div/electext.htm#denom]

Worship and Spirituality Site of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
http://www.worship.ca/
Congregational Resource Guide
http://www.congregationalresources.org/

ETHICS RESOURCES:

ONLINE TEXTS

Directory of electronic texts:
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~lipton/texts.html
Christian Classics Ethereal Library - includes:
- Ante-Nicene Fathers, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers:
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/
- Works by many authors:
http://www.ccel.org/index/author-all.html
Early Christian Writings:
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/
Creeds of Christendom:
http://www.creeds.net/index2.htm
Oxford Text Archive:
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/
Religion-online: [full text books & chapters]
http://www.religion-online.org/
Project Gutenberg
http://promo.net/pg/

ONLINE JOURNALS & ARTICLES

Directory of electronic journals:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~lipton/journals.html
Find Articles.com: [includes access to Christian Century, Commonweal, National Catholic Reporter, Ecumenical Review ]
http://www.findarticles.com
Ingenta [delivers articles free or for fee]
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/
PubList -database of over 150,000 magazines, journals, newsletters, & other periodicals
http://www.publist.com/
Religion in the News - from Trinity College
http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/csrpl/RIN.htm
Religion Newswriters Foundation
http://www.religionwriters.com/

IMAGES:

EIKON Image Database for Biblical Studies:
http://research.yale.edu:8084/divdl/eikon/index.jsp
AdHoc Image and Text Database on the History of Christianity:
http://research.yale.edu:8084/divdl/adhoc/index.jsp
ATLA Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative:
http://purl.oclc.org/ATSRW/CDRI

OTHER USEFUL SITES:

Last modified: 3/26/07