Patristics: Selected Internet Sites

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.

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.

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

A new revision of the guide by John L. Gresham. Includes links to print resources, people resources, digital resources, teaching resources, and gateways to subject resources organized by academic discipline and by religious tradition.

An Excellent Gateway to a wide range of Christian resources with emphasis on biblical studies.

Resources are arranged by format; religious group/selected topics; general search of the Web site.

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.

A useful guide to the panoply of religion topics, featuring selected links to home pages, indexes, and documents, with brief annotations by M.H. Smith, Rutgers University.

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.

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.

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.

Search biblical texts by version, passage, or word; allows several search refinements.

A "web directory of Internet resources on the New Testament." Includes a Greek New Testament Gateway, book reviews, featured links, and sections of links related to the Greek NT, biblical translations, non-canonical writings, the books of the NT, the ancient world, historical Jesus, the synoptic problem, women and gender, art & images, and Jesus in film. Currently updated daily.

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.

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.

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.

Although this updated site is intended as an online bar/bat mitzvah tutor, it provides a rich introduction to Tora studies.

A free electronic journal--publishing scholar articles, project reports, and book reviews--plus many related links. Now sponsored by The Society of Biblical Literature.

The official Vatican website, including numerous papal documents and a new search engine.

Full text of the 1997 American edition, plus search engine.

The full text of the 1983 edition via IntraText.

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."

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.

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.

The homepage of the Rome-based international news agency. The agency’s mission is “to provide objective and professional coverage of events, documents and issues emanating from or concerning the Catholic Church for a worldwide audience, especially the media.”

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.

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.

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.

News and resources concerning the Anglican church worldwide.

Official ELCA homepage contains links to official and historical documents of the Lutheran Church, directories, Lutheran periodicals, and more.

Includes links to scriptural sources, the Divine Liturgy, Orthodox prayers, readings, news, icons, and other resources.

The homepage of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA).

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.

"Intelligent" index to the Babylonian Talmud organized by category, by an English alphabetical subject index, and with a search engine powered by Google.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

Includes links to related materials at Library of Congress.

Provides links to research and educational resources about the Dead Sea Scrolls.

English translations drawn from the Edinborough collection.

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.

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.

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.

English translation of the Summa theologiae (Fathers of the English Dominican Province, c.1947).

Extensive bibliography; includes links to additional related web sites

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.

Helps users find resources on bioethics topics by providing bibliographies of recent literature, among other useful tools and links.

Provides information about the activities and publications of the Center, as well as links to the sites of related organizations.

Full-text English or English translations of Christian writings from a variety of time periods. Searchable by keywords, authors and titles.

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.

A repository of digital resources contributed by the member libraries of the American Theological Library Association and the Association of Theological Schools. The 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. A treasure-trove for illustrating lectures and presentations.

Learn how to cite information found on the Net in a bibliography.

Produced by the Writing Center at UW-Madison. Contains tips on style, grammar, punctuation, and citing sources.