Links & Resources
A WORD ABOUT THE SITES LISTED HERE
There are countless sites on the World Wide Web relevant to the study of religion (try "Googling" "religion"!). We have provided links to some of the more interesting and informative ones, but they are by no means uniform in their style, content, or purpose.
Some links below lead to "content sites" while others lead to "super sites." A content site is one that provides real content, actual information about religion. A super site provides no actual information about religion. Instead, it provides lists of links to other sites relevant to the study of religion. You are currently viewing a "super site." Some sites are hybrids, providing both content about religion as well as links to other sites.
Note that some of these web sites can be thought of as "primary sources" in the study of religion while others are "secondary sources." A primary source web site is one in which the creation of the site itself is a "religious" act. This is a site that is intended by the author to express, support, and promote "the faith" (whatever that faith is). It provides the reader with an "insider's" way of presenting the religion in question. Secondary source sites, on the other hand, are created by scholars to advance the academic study of religion. These sites present religion from the "outsider's" perspective. They aspire to "objectivity" and have no interest in promoting the religion(s) under discussion. No attempt is made here to distinguish between these primary and secondary source sites, and some sites would be difficult to classify. However, visitors to the sites should be conscious of this distinction and be aware of who sponsors any particular site and what their purpose is.
Finally, in addition to the sites listed below, several fine online services are available from the Lorette Wilmot Library. Of special significance for Religious Studies is the "ATLA Religion Index" available at the library's site through the "FirstSearch" database collection.
Site map. Click on the following topics or scroll down through the entire site:
African Religions
American Religion
Anthropology and Sociology of Religion
Archaeology
Baha'i
Buddhism
Chinese Religion
Christianity
General
Religious Studies Sites
Hinduism
Interfaith Organizations
Islam
Jaimism
Japanese
Religion (Shinto)
Judaism
Miscellaneous
Sites
Native
American Religions
New and Alternate Religious Movements
Psychology of
Religion
Rastafari
Religion and Government, Religious Freedom, Religion in Public Education
Religion and Science
Religion News, Commentary, and Blogs
Religion in Rochester, NY
Religious Ethics
Religious
Studies Professional Organizations
Santeria (Voo Doo)
Sikhism
Skepticism, Atheism, Secular Humanism
Wicca
Women and Religion
Zoroastrianism
African Religions
AllAfrica: Religion
African Traditional Religion
Internet African
History Sourcebook
American Religion
American Religion Data Archive
American Religious Experience
Americans United for the Separation of Church and State
Glenmary Research Center
Journal of Southern Religion
Material History of American
Religion Project
Religion in Latin America
Religious Freedom Page, University of Virginia
U.S. Religious Landscape Survey (Pew Forum)
Anthropology and Sociology of Religion
International
Society for the Sociology of Religion
Society for the Anthropology
of Religion
Weberian Sociology
of Religion
Archaeology
ArchNet: WWW Virtual Library
- Archaeology
Biblical Archaeology Review
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Baha'i
Baha'i Academics Resource Library
The Baha'i World: Official Site of
the Baha'i Faith
Baha'is of the United States
International Baha'i Library
Buddhism
Access to Insight: Readings
in Theravada Buddhism
BuddhaNet: Buddhist Information Network
Buddhist Association of the United States
Buddhist Peace Fellowship
Buddhist Resources
Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual
Library
Chieng
Mai Dhamma Study Group
Dalai Lama
Dharma & Nirvana
Dharma the Cat
DharmaNet International: Gateways
to Buddhism
Earth Sangha
Huntington Archive
of Buddhist Art
Journal of Buddhist Ethics
Journal of Global Buddhism
Mandala (Magazine)
Mountains and Rivers Order, Zen Mountain Monastery
Mystical Arts of Tibet
Naropa University
Order of Interbeing
Pure Land Buddhism (Shin
Buddhism)
Religious Studies
Digital Image Archive
Resources
for the Study of South and Southeast Asian Languages and Cultures
Shambala Sun Magazine Online
Shin Dharma Net
Soka Gakkai International - U.S.A.
Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center
Tibetan Government in Exile
Tibetan and Himalayan Digital
Library
Tibetan Studies WWW Virtual
Library
Western
Buddhist Review
Zen Buddhism WWW Virtual Library
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Chinese Religion
Abode of the Eternal Tao
Asian Studies WWW
Virtual Library
Center for Traditional Taoist Studies
China the Beautiful
ConfucianStudies.com
Confucius Publishing
Daoist Studies
Dharma Drum Mountain
Falun Dafa
Falun Dafa Info Center
Hsi Lai Temple
Internet Guide for Chinese Studies: Philosophy and Religion
Internet East
Asian History Sourcebook
Taoism Information
Page - WWW Virtual Library
Christianity
ATLA Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative
Augustine of Hippo
Bible Gateway
Biblical Studies on the Web
Book of Common Prayer
Book of Mormon
Byzantium: The
Byzantine Studies Page
Canterbury Cathedral
Official Website
Catholic Online
Center for Progressive Christianity
Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Christian + Feminist
Christian Coalition of America
Church of England
Church of God in Christ
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day
Saints
Church Fathers (writings of)
Digital Quaker Collection
Dumbarton Oaks Hagiography Database
Ecole Initiative: Encyclopedia
of Early Church History
Ekklesia
First Things: A Journal of Religion
and Public Life
Five Gospel Parallels
From Jesus
to Christ: the First Christians
Gnosis Archive
The Gutenberg Bible
H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies
Internet Medieval
Sourcebook
Into His Own: Perspective on the World of Jesus
Jesus: Real to Reel
The Labyrinth:
Resources for Medieval Studies
The Lectionary - Episcopal Church
The Lectionary Page - Episcopal Church
Mennonite Central Committee
Mepkin Abbey (links to
Trappist - Cistercian websites)
National Association of Evangelicals
National Conference of Catholic
Bishops: United States
Net Ministries
Church Directory
Netserf.org: Medieval
Religion
The New Testament Gateway
The Old Testament Gateway
The Perseus Project
Postmodern Bible Commentary
Project Canterbury
Project
Wittenberg
The
Quakers - Society of Friends
Religion-Online.org
Resource Pages for Biblical Studies
Resources for American Christianity
St. Laurentius Digital Manuscript Library
Shannon Chair in Catholic Studies, Nazareth College
Taize Community
The Tertullian Project
The Unbound Bible
United Methodist Church
United Pentecostal Church International
Vatican Official Site
Vatican, Documents of the Vatican II Council
Women Priests: The Case for
Ordaining Women
The World Council of Churches
Yale University
Library: Christianity - Internet Sites
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General Religious Studies Sites
About.Com: Religion and Spirituality
ABZU: Resources
for Study of the Ancient Near East on the Internet
Academic Info: Religious Studies & Comparative Religion
Adherents.com
Beliefnet
Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
Encyclopedia Mythica
Finding God in Cyberspace
Internet
Ancient History Sourcebook
Internet Journal
of Religion
Internet
Modern History Sourcebook
Internet Sacred Text Archive
Joseph Campbell Foundation
Journal of Religion and Society
Ontario Consultants on
Religious Tolerance
Parabola Magazine: Myth, Tradition
and the Search for Meaning
Philosophy, Theology, and Religion: Religion
The Pluralism Project
Religion Compass
Religion Explorer
Religion Watch
Religious Worlds
Religious Studies
Web Guide
Sacred Sites.com
Speaking of Faith (Public Radio program)
Virtual Library: Religion
Virtual Religion Index
Wabash Center Internet Guide to Religion
Wilfred
Laurier University: Religious Studies Internet Links
World Scripture: A Comparative
Anthology of Sacred Texts
Yahoo!
Search Engine for Religion and Spirituality
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Hinduism
Ancient Indus Valley:
Harappa
Archive of
Indological Resources Online
Bhagavad-Gita.org
The Hindu Universe
Hinduism.co.za
Hinduism Today
Hinduwebsite.com
India Virtual Library: Religious Traditions
Indian Texts Archive
International Society of Krishna
Consciousness
Internet
Indian History Sourcebook
Meeting God:
Elements of Hindu Devotion
Religion in South
Asia
Resources
for the Study of South and Southeast Asian Languages and Cultures
Saranam.com
Shiva Shakti Mandalam
Sri Vaishnava
Sri Venkateswara
Temple
The Society for Hindu-Christian
Studies
Temple Net: The
Comprehensive Indian Temple Website
World Vaisnava
Association
Interfaith Organizations
Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs
Center for Interfaith Studies and Dialogue, Nazareth College
Christian Muslim Forum
Council for a Parliament of the
World's Religions
Interfaith Alliance
Interfaith Calendar
Interfaith Voices (public radio program)
Interfaith Youth Core
The Pluralism Project
Union of Faiths
United Communities of Spirit
United Religions Initiative
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Islam
al-Fatiha Foundation
al-Khazina
al-Muslim
American Islamic Forum for Democracy
American Muslim Alliance
American Society for Muslim Advancement
Canadian Islamic
Congress
Canadian Society of Muslims
Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy
Compendium of Muslim Texts
Council on American-Islamic Relations
DawaNet
Fiqh Council
Gallup Center for Muslim Studies
Gnawa Stories
Holy Qur'an Resources on the Internet
Ijtihad
Institute of Islamic Information and Education
International Association of Sufism
International Institute of Islamic Thought
Internet
Islamic History Sourcebook
IslamOnline
IslamWorld
Islamic Affairs Department, Royal Embassy
of Saudi Arabia
Islamic Calendar for
North America
Islamic Society of North America
Islamic Studies,
Islam, Arabic, and Religion
IslamiCity in Cyberspace
Ja'ffari Islamic Centre
Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement
Musalman: the Islamic Portal
The Muslim News
Muslim Peace Fellowship
Muslim Public Affairs Council
Muslimah Media Watch
MuslimHeritage.com
Nation of Islam
Nawawi Foundation
North American Shia Ithna-Asheri Muslim Communities
Quran Browser
Sufism,
Sufis, Sufi Orders
Sultan.org
Sunnah Islamic Page
Two different sites with the same name:
Understanding
Islam
Understanding
Islam
USC Muslim Students Association
Islamic Server
Zaytuna Institute
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Jainism
Jainism: Principles,
Traditions, and Practices
Jainism.org
Jainworld
Japanese Religion (esp. Shinto)
Schauwecker's Guide
to Japan: Religion in Japan
Society for the
Study of Japanese Religions
Tsubaki America Shinto
Home Page
Judaism
Aish.com
Archival
Resources on the History of Jewish Women in America
Internet Jewish
History Sourcebook
Jewish History Resource
Center
Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance
Jewish Reconstructionist Federation
Judaism 101
Judaism and Jewish
Resources
March of Remembrance and Hope
Maven: the Jewish Portal
North American
Jewish Data Bank
Rabbi Amy Scheinerman Home
Page
Rabbinical Council of America
Scrolls from
the Dead Sea (Library of Congress Exhibition)
Shamash: The Jewish Internet Consortium
The Temple Institute
Tikkun
Union for Reform Judaism
United Jewish Communities
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary
Journal
World Jewish Congress
Yad Vashem
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Miscellaneous Sites
Council on Spiritual Practices
Esoterica: the Journal of Esoteric
Studies
Faith
and Doubt at Ground Zero
The Gifford Lectures
Journal of Ritual
Studies
Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life
Native American Religions
Indian Country Today: America's
Largest Indian Newspaper
Native
American Sites
Native Nations:
Official and Unofficial Tribal Sites
NativeWeb:
Religion and Spirituality
Sipapu: The Anasazi Emergence
into the Cyber World
WWW Virtual Library:
Native American Resources on the Internet
New and Alternate Religious Movements
Academic Info - Religious Movments:
Alternative Spirituality
Alternative
Religions
Center for Study on New Religions
ECKANKAR
Esalen
New Age Web Works
NUREL: Cults, Sects, New and Contemporary
Religions
Religious
Movements Homepage
Scientology Home Page
Shamanism
The Summit Lighthouse
Unification Church
What Is Enlightenment? Magazine
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Psychology of Religion
Nielsen's Psychology
of Religion Pages
Rastafari
Church
of Jah Rastafari
Dread
History: The African Diaspora, Ethiopianism, Rastafari
Rastaology
Religion and Government, Religious Freedom, Religion in Public Education
Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty
Americans United for the Separation of Church and State
Faith in Public Life
First Amendment Center
Forum 18
Freedom Forum
Institute for Global Engagement
The Religious Freedom Page, University of Virginia
Religious Liberty Archive
U.S. State Department: Report on International Religious Freedom
Religion in Public Education:
American Academy of Religion, Task Force on Religion in the Schools
Anti-Defamation League Statement on Religion in the Public Schools
Finding Common Ground: a Guide to Religious Liberty in Public Schools
Harvard University Program in Religious Studies and Education
National PTA: Resolution: Teaching About Religion in Public Schools
New York State Education Department Curricular Guidelines relevant to the study of religion. Standard (2) Social Studies, World History
Key Idea 4
Religion and Public Education Resource Center, California State University, Chico
Religious Studies in Secondary Schools
U.S. Department of Education, Religion and Public Schools
U.S. Supreme Court Decisions:
ENGEL v. VITALE, 370 U.S. 421 (1962)
ABINGTON SCHOOL DIST. v. SCHEMPP, 374 U.S. 203 (1963)
Religion and Science
American Association for the Advancement of Science: Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion
Beyond: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science
Center for Spirituality and the Mind
Center for the Study of Science and Religion
Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences
Cosmology: the Study of the Universe (NASA)
Counterbalance Foundation
Evolution Weekend
Evolutionary Psychology: a Primer
Faith and Reason (PBS program)
Fideism (Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
FQXi: Foundational Questions in Physics and Cosmology
Institute for Creation Research
Institute on Religion in an Age of Science
Intelligent Design? Natural History Magazine
International Society for Complexity Information and Design
International Society for Science and Religion
Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial (PBS "Nova" program)
Metanexus
Institute
Religious Groups' Views on Evolution (Pew Forum)
Science and Religion Forum
Search Magazine: Science + Religion + Culture
Templeton Foundation
Zygon Center for Religion and
Science
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Religion News, Commentary, and Blogs
Artciles of Faith: The Boston Globe
BBC: Religion
BBC Online:
Religion and Ethics (program)
CNN
Religion Search
CrossCurrents Magazine
Ecumenical News International
GetReligion
Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
Religion
and Ethics NewsWeekly (PBS)
Religion Dispatches
Religion
in South Asia Links (includes links to South Asian media)
Religion in the News
Religion News Service
Religion Newswriters Association
ReligionLink
The Revealer: a Daily Review
of Religion and the Press
USC Knight Chair in Media and Religion
Washington Independent: Religion
Washington
Post Religion Page
ZENIT: The World Seen From Rome
Religion in the Rochester, NY area
For driving directions to the sites below, see www.MAPQUEST.com
See the Rochester Pluralism Project for information on local religious communities.
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391 East Avenue
Rochester, NY 14604
(585) 232-1136
2530 Browncroft Blvd.
Penfield, NY 14625
(585) 586-0939
Chabad Lubavitch of Rochester NY
1037 Winton Road South
Rochester, NY 14618
(585) 271-0330
Catholic Diocese of Rochester
150 Buffalo Road
Rochester, NY 14624-1890
(585) 328-3210
Cistercian Trappist Monastery of
Our Lady of the Genesee
3258 River Rd.
Piffard, NY 14533
715 Paul Road
Chili, NY 14624
(585) 889-4870
990 Manitou Road
Hilton, NY 14626
(585) 225-3493
First Universalist Church
of Rochester
150 South Clinton Avenue
Rochester, NY 14604
(585) 546-2826
Gurudwara of Rochester
2041 Dublin Road
Penfield, NY 14526
(585) 377-2771
Hill
Cumorah Visitors' Center
603 Route 21 South
Palmyra, NY 14522
(315) 597-5851
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Hindu Temple of Rochester
120 Pinnacle Road
Pittsford, NY 14534-1008
(585) 427-8091
Houses of Worship
(WXXI-TV program on religious sites in Rochester area)
Islamic Center of Rochester
727 Westfall Road
Rochester, NY 14620-4611
(585) 442-0117
Jewish Community Federation
of Greater Rochester
Megiddo Church
481 Thurston Road
Rochester, NY 14619
(585) 235-4150
Rochester Chinese Christian Church
1524 Jackson Road
Penfield, NY 14526
(585) 872-6708
Rochester Zen Center
7 Arnold Park
Rochester, NY 14607-2082
(585) 473-9180
Sacred Heart Cathedral
Lake Avenue
Rochester, NY 14615
(585) 254-3221
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St. Josaphat's Ukrainian Catholic Church
940 East Ridge Road
Rochester, NY 14621
(585) 461-6457
Spiritus Christi Church
60 Bittner Street
Rochester, NY 14604
(585) 325-1180
Sri Vidya Temple
Society
6970 East River Road
Rush, NY 14543-9745
(585) 533-1970
Temple Beth El
139 South Winton Road
Rochester, NY 14610-1935
(585) 473-1770
Temple B’rith Kodesh
2131 Elmwood Avenue
Rochester, NY 14618-1021
(585) 244-7060
Temple Sinai
363 Penfield Road
Rochester, NY 14625-2073
(585) 381-6890
The
Rochester Pluralism Project: Profiles of Studied Communities
Turkish Society of Rochester
2841 Culver Road
Rochester, NY 14622-2826
(585) 266-1980
White Lotus Society
11 S. Goodman Street
Rochester, NY 14607
(585) 442-5853
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Religious Ethics
Buddhist Peace Fellowship
Center for
Global Ethics
Center for Religion, the Professions & the Public
Classic Texts in Ethics
Earth Sangha
Evangelical Environmental Network, Creation Care Magazine
Global Ethic Foundation
Global Ethics and Religion Forum
Interfaith Alliance
Interfaith Power and Light
Journal of Buddhist Ethics
National Religious Partnership for
the Environment
ReligionandNature.com
Religious Consultation
on Population, Reproductive Health and Ethics
Roundtable on Religion and Social Welfare Policy
Society for the Study of Christian Ethics
Society of Christian
Ethics
U.S. Institute
of Peace: Religion and Peacemaking
Web of Creation
Religious Studies Professional Organizations
American Academy of Religion
Association of Theological Schools
Canadian Corporation for Studies in
Religion
College Theology
Society
The Council of Societies for the Study
of Religion
Fund For Theological Education
Graduate Programs
in Asian Philosophy and Religious Studies
International Association for the History
of Religions
North American Association
for the Study of Religion
Society for Biblical Literature
Society for
the Scientific Study of Religion
Theta Alpha Kappa
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Santeria (Voo Doo)
Sikhism
History of the Sikhs
The Sikhism Home Page
Sikhnet
Skepticism, Atheism, Secular Humanism
Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
Council for Secular Humanism
NoBeliefs.com
The Secular Coalition for America
The Secular Web
Wicca, Paganism
Covenant of the Goddess
Northeast Council of WICCA
Pagan Educational Network
The Witches' Voice
Women and Religion - general sites. See additional sites under specific traditions.
Diotima: Women and Gender
in the Ancient World
Internet
Women's History Sourcebook
Women and Religion: Directory
of Internet Resources