ADDITIONAL LINKS

Relevant to more than one religion

http://www.bates.edu/Faculty/Philosophy%20and%20Religion/Religion_Resources.html

Internet Resources for the Study of Religion from the Religion Dept. at Bates College--great stuff here for many different religions

 

http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/Internet/front.htm

Wabash Center Guide to Internet Resources for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion

 

http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/

The Religious Movements Homepage of the Univ. of Virginia.  Profiles of scores of "new religious movements" from the Amish and Aum Shinrikiyo to Satanism and Swendenborgianism

 

http://www.csbsju.edu/library/internet/theosson.html

Internet Theology Resources:  Scripture (Christian and Jewish)

 

http://www.uncc.edu/jdtabor/

The Jewish Roman World of Jesus.  Collection of material explaining both the Jewish and Roman contexts of Jesus, by James D. Tabor, Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

 

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu:80/~jtreat/rs/resources.html

Internet Resources for the Study of Judaism and Christianity.  Huge collection of links, put together by Jay Treat, Director of Instructional Computing at the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Penn, 1996)

 

http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm

Great web site for links to sacred texts, with sub areas on each of the 3 religions, and more.

http://www.hti.umich.edu/r/rsv/index.html

The Bible (Tanakh/Old Testament and New Testament)

Judaism

http://shamash.org/trb/judaism.html

Judaism and Jewish Resources.  A directory and gateway to resources maintained by Andrew Tanenbaum, a software engineer with a personal interest in Judaism.

 

http://shamash.org/lists/scj-faq/HTML/

Soc.Culture.Jewish Newsgroup: good source for FAQ; also Reading Lists. This FAQ "is a collection of documents that . . . attempt to answer questions that are continually asked on the soc.culture.jewish family of newsgroups. It was written by cooperating laypeople from the various Judaic movements. . . . You should not make any assumption as to accuracy and/or authoritativeness of the answers provided herein. The FAQ was produced by a committee and is a cooperative work. . . .The goal of the FAQ is to present a balanced view of Judaism; where a response is applicable to a particular movement only, this will be noted. Unless otherwise noted or implied by the text, all responses reflect the traditional viewpoint."

 

http://www.jewfaq.org/

This site, also called "Judaism 101," is "an online encyclopedia of Judaism, covering Jewish beliefs, people, places, things, language, scripture, holidays, practices and customs." It is maintained by Tracey Rich, a traditional, observant Jew who works as the Educational Director for LegalEdge Software.

 

http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/index.html

Links for many Jewish subjects, including history, politics, travel, and Israel, put together by the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

 

http://www.urj.org/

Union for Reform Judaism (national organization of  Reform congregations).  There's an FAQ page within the site that has signed articles (a rarity on the web and a good thing): http://uahc.org/ask/questions.shtml

 

http://www.aleph.org/

Alliance for Jewish Renewal, "an organization of those who are dedicated to reclaiming the Jewish people’s sacred purpose of partnership with the Divine in the inseparable tasks of healing the world (tikkun olam) and healing our hearts (tikkun halev)."

 

Christianity

http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/christian-history.html

Guide to early Church documents

 

http://geneva.rutgers.edu/src/faq.html

Soc.Culture.Christian Newsgroup—frequently asked questions

 

http://www.ntgateway.com/

New Testament Gateway.  In addition to access to the text itself, there are links to all sorts of information about the New Testament and its context.

 

http://www.osb.org/

The Order of Saint Benedict (a monastic order)

 

http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/Internet/lutheran.htm

A collection of links about Lutheranism, one of the main strands of Protestantism.

 

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook02.html

Links to documents concerning the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Reformation

Islam 

http://www.arches.uga.edu/%7Egodlas/

Islamic Studies, Islam, Arabic, and Religion; site administered through the

University of Georgia Virtual Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of the Islamic World.


http://www.hti.umich.edu/k/koran/

http://www.sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/index.htm

http://www.islamicity.com/QuranSearch/
links to various translations of the Qur'an.  The last link has several translations plus a search engine.  And here's a site from which you can listen to the Qur'anbeing chanted.  http://www.islamicity.com/mosque/quran/


http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1d.html

Internet Islamic History Sourcebook; links to full texts of sources

 

http://www.cair-net.org/

Site of the Council on American-Islamic Relations; good for current news about Muslims in the U.S. and U.S. attitudes towards Islam.

 

http://www.al-islam.org/

Wide expanse of links on Islam; site run by the Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library, "a non profit Internet-based group of people operating from throughout the world. Our objectives are to digitise and present on the Internet quality Islamic resources, related to the history, law, practice, and society of the Islamic religion and the Muslim peoples with particular emphasis on Twelver Shia Islamic school of thought."

 

http://63.175.194.25/index.php?ln=eng&dgn=4

Islam:  Questions and answers.  "This site aims to provide intelligent, authoritative responses to anyones question about Islam, whether it be from a Muslim or a non-Muslim, and to help solve general and personal social problems. Responses are composed by Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid, a known Islamic lecturer and author [and imam at a mosque in al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia]. Questions about any topic are welcome, such as theology, worship, human and business relations, or social and personal issues."

 

http://www.ias.org/

International Association of Sufism (mystical movement within Islam)