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Theology & Religious Studies: Websites

Gateways / General Resources

American Academy of Religion (AAR)
The official web site of the world’s largest association of academics who research or teach topics related to religion. Includes online publications, teaching resources and educational opportunities, and meeting information.
American Religion Data Archive
The American Religion Data Archive collects quantitative data sets for the study of American religion. Data is freely available and can be downloaded in SPSS format.
Directory of Open Access Journals
The DOAJ Religion page includes links to more than 40 free, full-text, online theology journals. More than 8500 records are available in database, PDF, or HTML format. The site’s creator is William S. Peterson, professor emeritus of English, University of Maryland.
ICLnet
An Excellent Gateway to a wide range of Christian resources with emphasis on biblical studies.
Religious Studies Web Guide
Resources are arranged by format; religious group/selected topics; general search of the Web site.
Resources for American Christianity: Information & Reflection on Selected Projects Funded by Lilly Endowment Inc.
Provides “information and analysis about selected projects funded by the Lilly Endowment and the publications that have issued from those projects.” The publications include interviews, study guides, essays, newsletters, project descriptions, and abstracts for books and articles produced through the grants. Topics include church leadership, ethics, faith development, higher education, racial/ethnic communions, theological education, theology, and worship. The site does not provide an abundance of full-text scholarship, but grant-seekers can gain valuable information concerning the types of projects the Lilly Endowment funds.
Voice of the Shuttle: Religious Studies Page
This large compilation of links has been rebuilt as a database for greater flexibility of use. Covers a wide range of topics in the humanities, of which Religious Studies is one.
Websites on Religion
The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion provides this selective, annotated guide to electronic resources for those involved in the study and practice of religion. Resources include syllabi, electronic texts, e-journals, web sites, bibliographies, liturgies, references resources, software, and more. Search tips and advanced searching are available.

Biblical Studies

ECanon: Online Search Engine for Canonical Texts
Currently includes four versions of the biblical canon: KJV, RSV, NRSV, and Westcott and Hort Greek New Testament (unaccented). Eventually additional versions; sacred texts from other religious traditions; and other important traditional texts will be added. ECanon is part of TC : A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism.
Bible Gateway
Search biblical texts by version, passage, or word; allows several search refinements.
NT Gateway Weblog
The academic blog of Mark Goodacre, associate professor of New Testament, Religion Department, Duke University, and author of The New Testament Gateway. Provides frequently updated theological discussion and posts about the academic world.
Gutenberg Digital
Digitized documents, including the Göttingen Gutenberg Bible and the Göttingen Model Book, as well as well-known Bible texts and discussions of Gutenberg’s impact.
Resource Pages for Biblical Studies
Enormous index of links to resources, arranged in four parts: Biblical translations and related texts (including linguistic resources and lexica; Biblical studies electronically published; Aspects of the Mediterranean social world; and the Philo of Alexandria page.
Navigating the Bible II
Although this updated site is intended as an online bar/bat mitzvah tutor, it provides a rich introduction to Tora studies.
TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism
A free electronic journal--publishing scholar articles, project reports, and book reviews--plus many related links. Now sponsored by The Society of Biblical Literature.

Catholic Resources

The Holy See
The official Vatican website, including numerous papal documents and a new search engine.
Catechism of the Catholic Church
Full text of the 1997 American edition, plus search engine.
Code of Canon Law (The Law of the Roman Catholic Church)
The full text of the 1983 edition via IntraText.
The Catholic Encyclopedia
An online transcription of the original print edition, which was published between 1907 and 1912. As the 1908 preface says, "The Catholic Encyclopedia, as its name implies, proposes to give its readers full and authoritative information on the entire cycle of Catholic interests, action and doctrine."
New Advent
Includes articles from Catholic encyclopedia, full text in English translation of Aquinas' Summa Theologica, English translations of selected documents of the early church and of the Catholic Church; and numerous Catholic links.
The Catholic Liturgical Library
Provides historical and current information about the liturgies of the Latin (Roman) rite of the Catholic Church. Includes texts, as well as links to articles and other sources that compare and discuss liturgies.
Catholic.net
The successor to the Catholic Information Center on the Internet (CICI), this site provides access to leading Catholic magazines and newspapers, papal and Church documents, and devotional services, as well as weekly highlights from Catholic publications and web sites.
The Society of Jesus in the United States
This official site of the Society of Jesus in the U.S. includes numerous pages of links to Jesuit provinces, Jesuit ministries, web sites of individual Jesuits, and more. It incorporates most of the material from the former site, Jesuit Resources on the World Wide Web.

Other Christian Denominations

The Episcopal Church
The official web site of the Episcopal Church. Provides documents and links related to the Episcopal Church, including news, a "church finder", current initiatives, and Episcopal resources.
The Anglican Communion Official Website
News and resources concerning the Anglican church worldwide.
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Official ELCA homepage contains links to official and historical documents of the Lutheran Church, directories, Lutheran periodicals, and more.
Orthodox Christian Page in America
Includes links to scriptural sources, the Divine Liturgy, Orthodox prayers, readings, news, icons, and other resources.
Orthodox Church in America
The homepage of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA).

Comparative Religion / Interfaith Dialogue

World Scripture : a Comparative Anthology of Sacred Texts
Online version of the 1991 edition published by the International religious Foundation and involving an international team of 40 scholars representing the world's major religious traditions. This collection contains over 4000 scriptural passages from 268 sacred texts and 55 oral traditions, organized by theme.
WebShas: Learning Online
"Intelligent" index to the Babylonian Talmud organized by category, by an English alphabetical subject index, and with a search engine powered by Google.
Paleo-Judaica
The academic blog of Dr. James R. Davila, reader in Early Jewish Studies, University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Includes news items and discussion of all things related to the study and understanding of ancient Judaism.
Center for Christian-Jewish Learning
In addition to information about the Center, which is established at Boston College, and the courses and events that are offered in relation to it, this site offers news items and links to a significant number of resources, including Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations, an open-source journal published by the Boston College Libraries and the Center; related links; reviews; and streaming videos. The site is searchable via an internal search engine.
Quran Browser
Provides searches of the Quran by chapter and verse range displayed in any of five translations. Also allows searches of multiple translations, as well as a display of the Arabic version or a transliteration.
Virtually Islamic: Research and News about Islam in the Digital Age
Focuses on research into Islam and cyberspace, particularly that of the site’s developer, Dr. Gary R. Bunt, Centre for Islamic Studies, Department of Theology & Religious Studies, University of Wales Lampeter. Includes the Virtually Islamic Blog, online bibliographies, and links to sites useful for studying Islam.
Tabsir: Insight on Islam and the Middle East
A multi-contributor blog that seeks to provide "fair, open-ended scholarly assessment" of current issues related to Islam and the Middle East and to "encourage informed debate rather than partisan posturing on all issues."
The Hindu Universe

Historical Studies

Scrolls From the Dead Sea : the Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Scholarship
Includes links to related materials at Library of Congress.
The Orion Center for the Study of Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature
Provides links to research and educational resources about the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Guide to Early Church Documents
Includes selected texts and discussion of texts.
The Fathers of the Church
English translations drawn from the Edinborough collection.
Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism
An Internet version of the on-going, interdisciplinary research seminar instituted in the Department of Theology of Marquette University, but, since 2002, providing "a forum for electronically mediated scholarly discussion about Jewish mystical traditions in the eastern Christian texts" to participants from various scholarly communities. Directed by Alexander Golitzin, professor of eastern Christian theology, Marquette University, and Andrei Orlov, assistant professor of Christian origins, Marquette University.
Gnostic Society Library
Translations of texts and excerpts of texts, including Nag Hammadi codices, other Gnostic and Manichean texts, a few Dead Sea Scrolls translations. Sources of translations not clear in every case.
The Labyrinth
An online clearing house for websites on a variety of medieval topics, from archaeology to old Swedish and beyond.
The Church in the Southern Black Community
Presents ". . . a collected history of the way Southern African American experience transformed Protestant Christianity into the central institution of community life." Part of the Documenting the American South project of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries. Includes the full text of collected documents, plus the essay, "An Introduction to the Church in the Southern Black Community" by Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill plus a "Guide to Religious Content in Slave Narratives" compiled by Marcella Grendler, Andrew Leiter, and Jill Sexton.

Theology / Ethics

The Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas
English translation of the Summa theologiae (Fathers of the English Dominican Province, c.1947).
Thomas Aquinas in English: A Bibliography
Extensive bibliography; includes links to additional related web sites
Tommaso d'Aquino Newsletter and RSS Newsfeed
Site hosting news items and a newsletter devoted to the academic study of St. Thomas Aquinas. Includes links to documents, a picture gallery, and links to other Aquinas-related institutional and individual sites, to tangentially related sites, and to helpful dictionaries. Developed by Mark F. Johnson, associate professor of theology, Marquette University.
National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature
Helps users find resources on bioethics topics by providing bibliographies of recent literature, among other useful tools and links.
The Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences
Provides information about the activities and publications of the Center, as well as links to the sites of related organizations.
Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Full-text English or English translations of Christian writings from a variety of time periods. Searchable by keywords, authors and titles.

Manuscripts / Digital Images

Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
Home of the world’s largest collection of manuscript images and of St. John’s Bible, made available to students and researchers through advanced technologies for imaging, cataloging, and teaching. The site also includes digitized rare books and artwork.
Holy Land Maps from the Eran Laor Cartographic Collection
Historical maps of the Holy Land, dated 1462-1927, from the collection donated in 1975 by its owner, Eran Laor, to the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem. Searchable by persons, date, and site. Resolution is excellent, depending on the browser used.
ATLA Cooperative Resources Initiative
Repository of digital resources. CDRI database provides access to digital images of woodcuts, photographs, slides, papyri, coins, maps, postcards, manuscripts, lithographs, sermons, shape-note tune books, and various forms of Christian art, architecture, and iconography."

Search Aids and Internet Resources

Internet Resources Citation Guides
Learn how to cite information found on the Net in a bibliography.
Evaluating Information Sources
Writer's Handbook
Produced by the Writing Center at UW-Madison. Contains tips on style, grammar, punctuation, and citing sources.