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Library

|General Religion Sites| Search Engines and Directories|
|Encyclopedia| Glossary| Statistics|
|World Religions| Sacred Texts| Search the Bible|
|Patron Saints| |Cults and Alternative Religions|

• Beliefnet
  Beliefnet is "a multi-faith e-community designed for the multi-faith global community. A community where nobody's opinion is wrong, some just happen to be polar opposites."
  
  
• Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life
  "The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, launched in 2001, seeks to promote a deeper understanding of issues at the intersection of religion and public affairs. The Forum pursues its mission by delivering timely, impartial information..." Four key areas include: Religion and Politics, Religion and the Law, Religion and Domestic Policy, and Religion and World Affairs.
  
  
• Wabash Center Internet Guide
  "This website is a selective, annotated guide to a wide variety of electronic resources of interest to those who are teaching or studying religion and theology at the undergraduate or graduate level."
  
  
• Virtual Religion Index
  This site maintained by Rutgers University offers annotated links to information especially useful to undergraduates.

• 200 Religion
  BUBL LINK Catalogue of selected Internet resources BUBL LINK is the name of a catalogue (Dewey Decimal Classification) of selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas. All items are selected, evaluated, catalogued and described.
  
  
• Academic Info : Religious Studies
  Academic Info, online since 1998, is an independent Internet subject directory owned Michael Madin and maintained with the assistance of a quality group of subject specialists.
  
  
• Religion Explorer
  "a powerful crawler based search engine that searches only in religion related sites."
  
  
• Yahoo! Religion and Spirituality
  Select all of Yahoo, Religion, or select a specific area of religion and search by keyword or click on categories.

• Catholic Encyclopedia
  "proposes to give its readers full and authoritative information on the entire cycle of Catholic interests, action and doctrine."
  
  
• Encyclopedia of Religion and Society
  Edited by William H. Swatos, Jr., this is the 1998 edition from AltaMira Press, A Division of Sage Publications, Inc.

• Glossary of Religious Terms
  "Helpful glossary of important terms within the world's religions."

• Adherents
  "The most comprehensive source for statistics on religious adherents."
  
  
• American Religion Data Archive
  "The ARDA collection includes data on churches and church membership, religious professionals, and religious groups (individuals, congregations and denominations)."

• Exploring Religions
  University of Wyoming faculty of the religious studies program maintains this page. Select one of five major religions (Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism) and click "go now."
  
  
• International Religious Freedom Report
  "Annual Report on International Religious Freedom supplementing the most recent Human Rights Reports by providing additional detailed information with respect to matters involving international religious freedom."
  
  
• Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
  "This is a large religious web site which promotes religious freedom, tolerance and diversity as positive cultural values. It contains over 2,740 essays and menus."
  
  
• The Pluralism Project: World Religions in America
  "Our mission is to help Americans engage with the realities of religious diversity through research, outreach, and the active dissemination of resources."
  
  
• Religious Worlds
  "www.religiousworlds.com is an information source for religion, religions, religious studies"
  
  
• World Religion Resources
  Contains annotated links to sites have been awarded the ARIL (Association for Religion and Intellectual Life) Hot Site designation as offering among the best resources concerning world religion on the Internet.

• The Internet Sacred Text Archive
  "...is a freely available non-profit archive of electronic texts about religion, mythology, legends and folklore, and occult and esoteric topics. "
  
  
• EIKON Image Database for Biblical Studies
  "...browse the images in the database related to categories.., or search the image descriptions using the Keyword or Advanced Search options." "Some images in the EIKON database are restricted to Yale use, due to copyright agreements."

• Bible Gateway
  "... a free service for reading and researching scripture online -- all in the language or translation of your choice! ... provides advanced searching capabilities based on keywords or scripture references, and various tools to enhance your study of the Bible."
  
  
• ECanon
  "The ECanon is part of TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism, and it is designed to be a free online tool for scholars, students, clergy, and other interested people."

• Catholic Online Saints & Angels
  Click on Patron Saints for an areas of life, includes occupations and professions. Contains information about angels, too.
  
  
• Patron Saints
  AmericanCatholic.org offers a list of patron saints by cause, name or date.

• Information about Cults and Psychological Manipulation
  The American Family Foundation (AFF) site, a secular, nonprofit research center and educational organization was founded in 1979 to study cults, educate the public, and help those who have been affected by a cultic experience or psychological abuse.