religious studies resources

From Kenyon College Department of Religious Studies

• American Academy of Religion (AAR)
  This is the major academic organization in Religious Studies. It and the Society for Biblical Literature (SBL) hold a joint Annual Meeting that generally draws between 7,000 and 9,000 scholars.
• Midwest Region of the AAR
  One of the ten regional divisions of the AAR, each of which holds an annual meeting.
• North American Association for the Study of Religion (NAASR)
  A smaller group focusing on the social scientific study of religion.
• International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR)
  Another academic organization, which holds an international meeting every five years and regional meetings in intervening years. The NAASR is a member association.
• Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR)
  Focuses on research on religion using social-scientific methods.
• Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion (CSER) 
  Works “to promote humanistic and critical approaches to the study of religion, and to foster the public understanding of religion in the United States and abroad.”
• The Martin Marty Center for the advanced study of religion (University of Chicago)
• Religious Studies Programs in Canada and the United States
  Compiled by Gene Thursby, University of Florida
• Non-religion and Secularity Research Network (NSRN)

• World Wide Web Virtual Library: Religion
  Surprisingly sparse.
• Religion / Religions / Religious Studies
  An excellent, annotated collection of links for the study and interpretation of religions, by Gene Thursby, University of Florida.
• Religious Studies Web Guide (University of Calgary)
  Another excellent collection of links, but not annotated.
• Virtual Religion Index (Rutgers University)
  An extensive collection of classified, annotated links.
• Comparative Religion Resources (University of Washington Libraries)
  Organized by format, not topic.
  
• Guide to Internet Resources (Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion)
• Religious Studies Links (Voice of the Shuttle, UCSB)
• Academic Info: Religion Gateway
  Lightly-annotated links.
• Religious Worlds 
  A good source for religion, religions, and religious studies.
  
• Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
  An unusually extensive and balanced collection of essays on religious and ethical traditions, including many small ones.
• Diaspora.fi: Religions in a Globalising World
  Resources on religion in diaspora, religion and international migration, globalisation and transnationalism, and the study of religion in local settings.
  
• Why Study Religion?
  A site for high school and college students, sponsored by the American Academy of Religion.
• Parliament of the World’s Religions
  Successor to the original World’s Parliament of Religions in 1893.

• Center for Studies on New Religions
  “An international network of associations of scholars working in the field of new religious movements,” based in Torino, Italy. Contains good articles.
• Religious Movements
  An extensive and nicely-designed site at the University of Virginia 
• Pew Charitable Trusts Centers of Excellence
  • Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (Boston University)
  • Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Religion (Emory Univeristy)
  • Center for Religion and Media (New York University)
  • Center for the Study of Religion (Princeton University)
  • Center for Religion, the Professions and the Public (University of Missouri)
  • The Erasmus Institute (University of Notre Dame)
  • Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society (University of Pennsylvania)
  • Center for Research on Civic Culture (University of Southern California)
  • Center on Religion and Democracy (University of Virginia)
  • Center for Religion and American Life (Yale University)
• Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs (Georgetown University)

• Religion News (Pew Forum)
• Religion News Service
• Religion Newswriters Association (links to stories and resources)
• Religion Dispatches (“a daily online magazine dedicated to the analysis and understanding of religious forces in the world today”)

• Washington Post religion page
• Los Angeles Times religion page
• ACF NEWSOURCE religion archives
• PBS Religion & Ethics Newsweekly
• PBS Faith and Reason
• State of Belief (Air America Radio)

Texts, Audio-Visual, Reference works

• Encyclopedia of Religion: Table of Contents
• Religions of the World (J. Gordon Melton and Martin Baumann, editors)
• Encyclopedia of Religion and Society
• Routledge online dictionaries and encyclopedias on religion
• Oxford Reference Online
  • A Dictionary of Buddhism (Oxford)
  • The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
• Concise Dictionary of Religion, by Irving Hexham (1994)
• Other Religion Dictionaries
• Electronic Reference Books on Religion (ABC-CLIO): includes some introductory texts
• Encyclopedia Mythica
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy

• “Exploring Religions”
  Online textbook covering Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism.
• Mircea Eliade, From Primitives to Zen (1967)
  An anthology of religious texts and secondary accounts, thematically organized.
• Divining America: Religion and the National Culture 
  National Humanities Center: curriculum enrichment for high school teachers.
• Online scholarly books on religion (OhioLink)
  

• Internet Sacred Text Archive
• World Scripture: A Comparative Anthology Of Sacred Texts, ed. Andrew Wilson (1991)
• “World’s philosophy and religion in quotes” (indexed by subjects, authors, traditions, and texts)
• Hebrew Bible (JPS 1917 edition)
• Christian Bible (New International Version)
• Sacred Books of the East
• Electronic Text Center (UVA)
• Religion Index (index to journal articles and multi-author books, 1949-present)
• Religious Studies Digital Image Archive
• Documentary Films on Religion
• “The Question of God” (PBS series, focusing on Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis)
• “Religulous” trailer (Bill Maher film; also here)

Judaism

• Resources on Western Religions (University of Pennsylvania)
• Judaism and Jewish Resources
• Judaism (religionfacts.com)
• Center for Online Judaic Studies
• Shamash: The Jewish Network
• Chabad Lubavitch of Cyberspace
• Holocaust Encyclopedia (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum)
• Encyclopedia of American Jewish History
• God and Sexuality (Jewish and Christian – Bard College)

Christianity

• Christianity sources (Yale Divinity School)
• Online Encyclopedia of Early Church History
• Writings of Early Church Fathers
• “From Jesus to Christ” (PBS series)
• The Jesus Seminar (Westar Institute)
• Directory of Ecumenical Study Centers
• Catholic Information Center
• The Vatican
• Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica
• The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Institute of Sino-Christian Studies
• Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

Islam

• Islam (part of a larger website on Arab Culture and Civilization)
• Islamic Studies, etc.
• Muslim Students Organization (USA and Canada)
• “Islamic Fundamentalism” by John L. Esposito
• The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
• Islam and the West: A Conversation with Bernard Lewis (2006)

South Asian Traditions

• Indian Culture
• Hindu Resources Online
• British Library Oriental & India Office
• “The Hindu Universe”
• Devi: The Great Goddess
• Indus River Valley Civilization (article)
• Journal of South Asia Women Studies
• Hindu Temple of Greater Chicago

East Asian Traditions and Buddhism

• Chinese Religions
• Japanese Religions
• Buddhism
• Confucianism
• Taoism
• Chinese Alchemy

American Religion

• Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life
• Americans United for Separation of Church and State
• Religious Freedom (People for the American Way)
• Freedom Forum Religion News Stories
• Roundtable on Religion and Social Welfare Policy
• Ethical Culture Society
• American Religion Data Archive
  • 1996 Survey of Religious Beliefs in North America
    Selected results of a major survey.
• Exploring Religious America (2002 survey)
• NativeReligion.org (law and Native American religions)

Other traditions

• The Baha’i Faith
• Zoroastrianism
• Western Alchemy
• Shamanism
• Theosophy
• Astrology

Pluralism, Dialogue

• Pluralism Project (Harvard)
• Inter-Religious Dialogue
• Polylog: Forum for Intercultural Philosophy

Classics, Literature

• Classical Mythology
• BABBLE (synoptic text viewer)
• English Literature and Religion
• Star Wars: The Religion

Religion and Science

• Science, Ethics, and Religion (American Association for the Advancement of Science)
• Institute on Religion in an Age of Science
• Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences
• Vatican Observatory

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Kenyon and Online Journals

General:

• OhioLINK Religion Databases
• ATLA Religion Index
• EBSCO Religion and Philosophy Database
• Directory of Open Access Journals: Religion
• Project Muse: Religion journals
  
• Journal of the American Academy of Religion
• History of Religions (Selected tables of contents online)
• Religious Studies (also Online since 2001)
• Religion (also Online through OhioLink)
• The Journal of Religion
• Religious Studies Review (online through OhioLink since 2005)
• Religion Compass (free until Sept. 2007, then contents only)
• Method & Theory in the Study of Religion (online through Consort/OhioLink)
• Journal of Religious History (online through OhioLink)
• Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (more full text available through Consort)
• Journal of Religion & Society
• Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion (online only)
• Journal of Religious Ethics (Online since 1999)
• Journal of Comparative Religion
• Journal of Contemporary Religion (Online through OhioLink since 1998)
• The Annual Review of Women in World Religions (BL458 .A56, not in periodicals)
•  Online Journals in Religious Studies and Theology
• Internet Journal of Religion: This is actually five different online scholarly journals.
• Journal of Religion and Film

• Journal of Religion and Health (Online since 1998)
• Journal for Peace and Change
• Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions
• Killing the Buddha (An online “religion magazine for people made anxious by churches”).
• International Journal for Philosophy of Religion (also online since 1996 through OhioLink)
• International Philosophical Quarterly: IPQ
• Contintental Philosophy Review
• Journal of the History of Ideas (also online since 1996 through OhioLink)
• Parabola (“myth and tradition” — more popular than scholarly)
• Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes (religion, civilization, and art)
• The Hibbert Journal: A Quarterly Review of Religion, Theology, and Philosophy (1902-1968)
• Review of Religion (1936-1958)
• Reviews of Religion & Theology (online since 1999)
• Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science (Online through OhioLink)

• Environmental Ethics

Judaism:

• Judaism
• The Jewish Quarterly Review
• The Jewish Law Annual (296.18 J55, not in periodicals)
• American Jewish History
• Modern Judaism
• Women in Judaism
• Jewish Social Studies: A Quarterly Devoted to Contemporary and Historical Aspects of Jewish Life (1978-1993)
• The Journal of Hebrew Scriptures

• TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism (covers Christianity also)

Christianity:

• Christian Century
• Cross Currents (Christianity and intellectual life)
• Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers
• Journal of Bible and Religion (1933-1966)
• Journal for Christian Theological Research
• Journal Of Early Christian Studies
• Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture (Online since 2000)
• Religion in Life
• Theology
• Theology Today
• Vox Benedictina: A Journal of Feminine and Monastic Spirituality (1990-1993)
• Logos & Pneuma: Chinese Journal of Theology (some abstracts online)

American Religions:

• Journal of Southern Religion
• The North Star: A Journal of African-American Religious History

Islam:

• The Islamic Quarterly
• Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies
• The Muslim World (some free content through OhioLink)

Asian Religions:

• Buddhist-Christian Studies (online since 1999)
• Contemporary Buddhism (online through Consort)

• Inter-Religio (Interreligious dialogue in East Asia — Online only)
• The Pacific World: Journal of the Institute of Buddhist Studies
• Asia-Pacific: Perspectives

• Journal of Chinese Religions (Online through OhioLink since 2000)
• Journal of Chinese Philosophy
• Frontiers of Philosophy in China (selected articles available)
• Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy (table of contents)
• Late Imperial China
• T’oung Pao (1996-present online through OhioLink)
• Japanese Journal of Religious Studies (full text online)
  • Special issues
• Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies: articles on religious studies
• Journal of Indian Philosophy (online through OhioLink since 1997) 
• Philosophy East & West (online through OhioLink since 1990)
• Journal of Asian Studies
• Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
• Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies