Directories & Virtual Libraries

Academic Info Religion Gateway
         http://www.academicinfo.net/religindex.html
A good introductory guide to Web resources, especially strong on religious movements, native religions, history, and culture.

The New Testament Gateway
         http://www.ntgateway.com/
Directory of textual and other academic resources. Focus on New Testament and early Christianity, though Judaica page links to resources on Dead Sea Scrolls, Josephus, Philo of Alexandrea, and other Judaic Studies materials.

Virtual Religion Index
         http://religion.rutgers.edu/vri/index.html
Start here for religious research on the Internet. Broad coverage of world religions; maintained by the Dept. of Religion at Rutgers University.

Online Texts and Document Collections

Bible Gateway
         http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?
Completely revised in June 2000 to allow more extensive searching, as well as browsing text and secondary sources on nine Bible translations, including the King James and Revised Standard versions. Translations available in English, French, Spanish, German, Latin, Italian, Swedish, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Tagalog.

The Holy See (Vatican)
         http://www.vatican.va
Read papal documents, listen to archives of Radio Vaticana, read current edition of Vatican newspaper, watch videos from the archives, tour museums.

Online Texts and Documents Related to Jewish History
         http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/dinur/links/texts.htm
Maintained by the Dinur Center, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, this page includes downloadable (freeware) texts of Hebrew legal classics; links to Jewish Scriptures in English, Hebrew, and Greek; historical documents from ancient to modern times.

World Religions
         http://davidwiley.com/religion.html
Links to texts of world religions, including Bahai, Buddhism, Confucianism, Hindu, Islam, Mormon, Sikh, and Taoism.

Electronic Journals

American Journal of Philology
         http://www-us.ebsco.com/online/direct.asp?JournalID=101025

Analysis
         http://www-us.ebsco.com/online/direct.asp?JournalID=100804

Illness, Crisis, & Loss
         http://www-us.ebsco.com/online/direct.asp?JournalID=103734

Journal of the History of Ideas
         http://www-us.ebsco.com/online/direct.asp?JournalID=101040

Journal of Religion and Popular Culture
         http://www.usask.ca/relst/jrpc/index.html

Philosophy
         http://www-us.ebsco.com/online/direct.asp?JournalID=102046

Religion
         http://www-us.ebsco.com/online/direct.asp?JournalID=104101

Reviews in American History
         http://www-us.ebsco.com/online/direct.asp?JournalID=101059

Zygon
         http://www-us.ebsco.com/online/direct.asp?JournalID=100945

Journal Databases, Indexes, and Abstracts (Multi-Subject)

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
         http://www.lexis-nexis.com/universe
Find articles from newspapers around the world and legal information for your term papers.
[Available on campus and through proxy server]

Project Muse
         http://www.muse.jhu.edu
Research different subjects in over 100 online journals.
[Available on campus only.]

netLibrary
         http://www.netlibrary.com/
An electronic library containing hundereds of public domain (out of copyright) books.
[Available on and off campus.]

Academic Sites on Virtual Religion Index
         http://religion.rutgers.edu/vri/index.html
Includes societies for study of religion, libraries, research institutes, graduate programs, international directory of undergraduate programs, and seminaries.

Other Web Sites

American Religious Identification Survey
         http://www.gc.cuny.edu/studies/aris_index.htm
Study completed by Graduate Center, City University of New York in 2001; results compared with similar study a decade earlier.

American Religion Data Archive
         http://www.thearda.com/
This archive of quantitative data on American religious groups includes maps, reports on church membership, and downloadable software to assist the non-specialist in the use of the statistics.

The Five Gospels Parallels
         http://www.utoronto.ca/religion/synopsis
The four canonical gospels (RSV) and the Lambdin translation of the Gospel of Thomas in HTML can be read separately or combined in parallel frames; edited by John W. Marshall, Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto.