Library
Web Reference Sites
Religion
Adherents.com: Adherents.com
is a growing collection of over 41,000 adherent statistics
and religious geography citations.
American Religion Data Archive: Includes data about churches, membership,
individuals, congregrations, and denominations.
Finding God in Cyberspace: Annotated list of world religion sites.
The Internet Sacred Text
Archive: This site is a freely available archive of significant primary
texts relating to religion, mythology, (and to a lesser extent) legends and
folklore.
ReligionNet: Learn the background history and basic beliefs of Atheism,
Buddhism, Hinduism, and Judaism, among others.
World Prayers: The purpose of this Website is to gather the great prayers
written by the spiritual visionaries of our planet into an online database representing
all life affirming traditions. Many of these prayers have been used for hundreds
if not thousands of years.
BBC
Introduction to Buddhism
BuddhaNet: Offers an online Buddhist magazine, a comprehensive worldwide
directory of Buddhist centers, a library of ebooks, and an extensive database
of articles on Buddhism, including insight meditation, metta meditation, history,
culture, and academic studies.
Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library: Well-organized guide to Buddhist information
online.
The
Bible Gateway: Searchable Bible database.
The Catholic Encyclopedia
Dictionary of Orthodox Catholic Terminology
Glossary of Christian History
Glossary
of United Methodist Terms
The Holy Bible: King James Version
Resource Pages for Biblical Studies: These pages are intended as a resource
for serious, scholarly studies of the early Christian writings and their social
world.
Strong's Concordance with Hebrew
and Greek Lexicon
The Unbound Bible: A bible search
site that offers numerous versions of the Bible in various languages and
editions. You can search by keyword through whole Bible, Old Testament, New
Testament, or the Apocrypha
Vine's Expository Dictionary
of New Testament Words
BBC
Religion and Ethics: Hinduism: Overview of Hindu history,
beliefs, customs, holy days, etc.
Hindu Universe Resource Center: Information on Hindu gods, scriptures, worship,
temples and much more.
Understanding Hinduism
Dictionary
of Islamic Philosophical Terms
The Holy Quran
Shi'ite Encyclopedia
The
Dictionary of Torah
The Jewish History Resource Center: Over 6,000 links to Websites in more
than 30 categories dealing with Jewish history.
Jewish Virtual Library: Encyclopedia of Jewish history, biography, politics,
maps, and more.
Judaism and Jewish Resources
Judaism 101: Online encyclopedia of
Judaism, covering Jewish beliefs, people, places, things, language, scripture,
holidays, practices and customs.
The Baha‘i’ World
Glossary of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
How Christmas Works: The complete guide to Christmas traditions.
Lexicon of Confucianism
Taoism Information Page
The Age of Fable
or Beauties of Mythology: Written to “teach mythology
not as a study but as a relaxation from study,” these ageless
volumes span the ages: from the Olympus of Zeus and the
Valhalla of Thor, to the Round Table of King Arthur and the escapades of Robin
Hood.
Bloomsbury Research Centre: Site is a free online database of reference
books of over 17,000 entries, cross-referenced and indexed. A search engine is
available to search on a wide range of subjects including literature, art, myth,
human thought, quotations and a thesaurus, or browse through each book at your
leisure.
Bulfinch’s Mythology: From classical mythology through the Middle Ages.
Classical Mythology: Designed for a course at Temple U., this site is useful
for anyone looking for information on Classical Mythology. Includes a glossary
of characters, words and phrases with pop-up genealogical trees, an overview
of the gods, and more.
Encyclopedia Mythica: An encyclopedia of mythology, folklore and legend.
Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology
