Gateways / General Resources
- Intute: Arts & Humanities
An online service that provides access to over 18,000 Web resources for education and research.
Sites are selected and evaluated by subject specialists. Searchable by keyword and browsing,
as well as a Harvester for broader searching. Features include personalized accounts, a blog,
and Limelight, a monthly showcase of subject-related news items and articles. Staff are based
in the University of Oxford, Manchester Metropolitan University, and the University of the Arts London
and are led by the Research Technologies Service at Oxford University Computing Services.
- Virtual Religion Index
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.
- Religious Studies Web Guide
Resources are arranged by format; religious group/selected topics; general search of the
Web site.
- ICLnet
An excellent gateway to a wide range of Christian resources with emphasis on biblical
studies.
- 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.
- Finding God in Cyberspace : A
Guide to Religious Studies Resources on the Internet
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.
- American Religion Data Archive (ARDA)
The ARDA collects quantitative data sets currently not stored in a public archive and
makes them available for free use at the site. The site is conveniently searchable.
- 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.
- English Literature and
Religion
Offers a substantial bibliographical database on religious aspects and backgrounds of English literature
from the Middle Ages to the present. Emphasizes, but not exclusively, writers within the
Anglican tradition.
- Internet
Guide to Relgion
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.
- 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.
- Scholarly Societies Project:
Religious Studies
Provides access to the web sites of selected scholarly religious organizations worldwide.
Sponsored by the University of Waterloo Library.
- Resources for American Christianity: Informaion
& 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.
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.
- New Testament Gateway
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.
- 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/batmitzvah 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 Laws
of the Roman Catholic Church)
The full text of the 1983 edition via IntraText.
- Catholic Information Center on Internet.
- 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.
- ZENIT
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.”
- 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 Welcomes You
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).
- Yahoo:
Society and Culture:Religion and Spirituality:Faiths & Practices:Christianity:Denominations
and Sects
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.
- Academic Jewish Studies Internet Directory
Provides links to more than 500 resources for the study of Judaism, including academic associations,
research institutes, Jewish studies at universities, libraries, archives, and other Internet resources.
- WebShas : Learning Online
"Intelligent" index to the Babloyian 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 transaltions.
Also allows searches of multiple translations, as well as a display of the Arabic version or a
transliteration.
- USC-MSA Compendium of Muslim Texts
Provides translations of the Qur’an and the Hadith, as well as a substantial collection of Islamic writings,
including contemporary essays, on topics such as economics, history, human relations, law,
misconceptions about Islam, and politics.
- 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
Links to everything
you ever wanted to know about Hinduism and contemporary Hindu culture.
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.
- Christian Hagiography
Compiled by the Société des Bollandistes. Numerous links and references to information about the
publications and activities of the Bollandists and to information about hagiography worldwide,
including organizations and periodicals; congresses on hagiography; web sites for hagiographers; and
reference books and dictionaries.
- The Works of Flavius Josephus
Contains the full text of several pivotal works of Josephus in the 18th-century translation by William
Whiston, plus The Complete Collection of Josephus in a zip file.
- 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.&bnsp; Directed by Alexander Golitzin, professor of eastern
Christian theology, Marquette University, and Andrei Orlov, assistant professor of Christian origins,
Marquette University.
- The Ecole Initiative
" Creating a hypertext encyclopedia of early church history on the World-Wide Web."
- 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 : Resources
for Medieval Studies
Includes links to on-line bibliographies, pedagogical resources, texts,
databases, and more. Searchable by category, subcategory, type of materials, and keyword.
- The Church in the Southern Black
Community
Presents ". . . a collected history of the way Southern African American
experience transformed Protestant Christianity into the central insitution 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
- Augustine of Hippo
Provides access to some of Augustine's works--some in Latin only, some in translation only,
some in both Latin and translation. Includes links to related sites.
- 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.
- Stephen Loughlin's Home Page: St.
Thomas Aquinas
Provides access to biographies, books, and essays available on-line; links
to English translations of several titles in the thomistic corpus, including both Summae and the De
ente et essentia; links to other Aquinas sites.
- Ethics Updates
Summaries and full-text
articles, bibliographical references, links to other ethics-related sites, and other classroom resources
for teaching ethics.
- 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
" Classic Christian books in electronic format..."
- Theology Blogs
A "mega-blog," edited by Finnish theologian Patrik Hagman (he also plays bass in a
Springsteen cover band called Bruce Almighty), that collocates dozens of blogs focusing on systematic
theology, including sites that deal with dogmatics, ethics, hermeneutics, patristics, philosophy of
religion, etc. Features a "Blog of the Month."
Manuscripts/Digital Images
- Eikon Image Database for Biblical Studies
"The EIKON Image Database for Biblical Studies is a faculty-library initiative at Yale Divinity
School that provides digital resources for teaching and research in the field of Biblical studies. Images
in the EIKON database are a subset of the Yale Divinity School Digital Library." REMINDER:
Copyright restrictions apply to the use of these 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 Digital Resources Initiative
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.
Important Note:
The searchable works of many major Western theologians and philosophers are available
to Marquette faculty, students, and staff via PAST
MASTERS on the Internet and PATROLOGIA
LATINA on the Internet, both of which can be accessed from the Marquette Libraries Homepage.
In addition, index searching for journal-article citations on numerous topics related to theology and
religious studies is available to the Marquette community via ATLA RELIGION DATABASE on the Internet. The
Library of Latin Texts, which includes the works
of many Latin Christian writers from the time of the early Church through the Middle Ages, and the
ANCHOR BIBLE DICTIONARY are two of the resources available through the Libraries' network on PCs
throughout Raynor Memorial Libraries. For more info on these databases, as well as a CD-ROM
version of the INDEX THOMISTICUS, which includes the full searchable Latin texts of the works of St.
Thomas, ask at the Information Desk.
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