Religion, Comparative Subject Guide

Web Resources

 

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The sources listed here are, for the most part, free World Wide Web sites offering useful information for the Department of Comparative Religion faculty and students as opposed to the Web-based databases which the Libraries license.




Academic Information:ReligionThis comprehensive Web site indexes a variety of academic sites for the study of religion, including directories, indexes, libraries, academic departments, societies, centers, and associations.

Acta Sanctorum restricted Contains the complete texts, which were published between 1656 and 1940, of all the lives of the ancient, medieval and modern saints. Serves as an electronic index for 68 volumes of saints' lives.
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Department of Comparative Religion at WMUThis WMU page also provides links to numerous potentially useful World Wide Web sites.

Gateway to SikhismLinks to Sikh scriptures, history, way of life and related subjects. Includes its own search engine.

Hindu UniverseProvides links to 17,000 sites about Hindu culture and religion, distinguishing among scriptures, philosophy, customs, history, and interfaith relations.

In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives restricted This index lets users perform searches within letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies that are freely available on the Web and in Alexander Street databases. Users can access thousands of personal narratives in English from archives and repositories everywhere. Includes links to full text, audio, and video whenever available.

Internet Journal of ReligionThis electronic journal has no print equivalent. It is a free electronic resource, to be used by itself or in conjunction with other scholarly resources.

Internet Sacred Text ArchiveProvides, in addition to religious texts, texts from mythology, folklore, legend, and occult subjects. There are 46 categories, including, for example, "The Age of Reason," which provides full-text of writings by freethinkers such as Thomas Paine, Charles Darwin, and Mark Twain.

Islam PageThis site provides the full-text of the Qur'an in 20 different languages, tools for searching the text, links to Muslim beliefs, Islamic history and related subjects.

Jainism: Jain Principles, Tradition, and PracticesLinks in ten categories, including Jain texts, images, pilgrimages, and organizations.

Judaism and Jewish ResourcesFrom the table of contents links lead to a great variety of resources about Jewish culture, history and religion.

Religion, Religions, Religious Studies
This links to numerous sites for the study of religion all over the world.

Religions of the WorldThis site provides introductions to the world's major religions: Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Animism, Christianity, and Hinduism.

Resources for the Study of Buddhismhttp://online.sfsu.edu/~rone/Buddhism/Buddhism.htm A gateway to many sites for the study of Buddhist religion and culture.

Taoism Information PageIncludes the religious writings of Tao, Taoist culture, and links to sites on Chinese philosophy in general.

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