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Department of Philosophy and Religion
Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies
http://www.phil.unt.edu/
UNT's Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies is the leading center for the study in environmental ethics and environmental philosophy in North America. The department website features information on academic programs, research, and faculty. UNT Philosophy and Religion Studies emphasizes an applied or 'field' approach to philosophic problems. The department is also distinguished by a growing interest in science and technology studies, the relation between nature, society, and decision-making, and the construction of identity.
Professional Organizations
From the website: The American Academy of Religion (AAR) is the largest scholarly association for religious studies. AAR covers all types of religious movements. There are sections specific to Judaism as well as sections which examines issues from a variety of religious perspectives. There is a student rate to join AAR.
Society of Biblical Literature
From the website: the Society of Biblical Literature is the oldest and largest learned society devoted to the critical investigation of the Bible from a variety of academic disciplines. As an international organization, the Society offers its members opportunities for mutual support, intellectual growth, and professional development. There is a student rate to join SBL.
Religious Images and Art
UNT Art and Incongraphy Subject Guide
http://www.library.unt.edu/research-tools/guides/art-iconography
EIKON Image Database for Biblical Studies
EIKON is a faculty-library initiative at Yale Divinity School that provides digital resources for teaching and research in the field of Biblical studies.
AdHoc Image and Text Database on the History of Christianity
AdHoc is a faculty-library initiative at Yale Divinity School that provides digital resources for teaching and research related to the history of Christianity.
CDRI database or Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative
The CDRI database or Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative 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. The Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative of the American Theological Library Association and Association of Theological Schools is a repository of digital resources contributed by member libraries (ATLA).
An image database of medieval and renaissance manuscript. The database is a joint project of the Bancroft Library (UC Berkeley) and the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Columbia University.
Links to Religion in art including links to museum collections, image collections, and manuscripts.
General
UNT Department of History: Religious Studies
http://www.hist.unt.edu/web_resources/religion.htm
Internet Theology Resources, St. John's School of Theology
http://www.users.csbsju.edu/~eknuth/itr/
Virtual Religion Index
http://virtualreligion.net/vri/
Online Primary Texts
Online Primary Texts
This web resource offers a directory of religious texts from nearly all the religions around the world in full text.
This website contains translations of major texts from all of the major world religions as well as smaller religious movemetns.
Christian Classics Ethereal Library
This website includes Ante-Nicene Fathers, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers.
This website provide free access to writings from the New Testament, Apocrypha, Gnostics, church fathers, and more.
This website is an overview of the major Creeds and Confessions produced by the Christian Church over the centuries.
Oxford University Text Archive
The Oxford University Text Archive is an enormous collection of primary texts of all kinds including a significant number of religious discourses covering a wide time period.
Religion and Philosophy Topic Guide
The Center for Research Libraries makes available microfilms of original documents from the Church of England, German Evangelica Church, Lutherism, the Church Missiotnary Society, Council for World Mission, and other missionary socieites. These resrouces can be obtained through InterLibrary Loan.
http://www.crl.edu/collections/topics/religion-and-philosophy
Online Journals and Articles
Directory of Religious Studies
A directory of electronic journals covering a wide scope of religion topics
Religion News writers Foundation
Resources, tools, and training for writing about religion.
Bibliotheca Religiosa IntraText
A full-text online library that publishes religious, philosophical, and literary works, including books, periodicals, complete works, and archives in more than 30 languages.
Religion News Service is the "AP" for news about religion. Particularly helpful is the daily news blog.
Web Gateways
A free internet resource for researchers involved in the academic study of religion. The resource includes bibliographies, images, indexes, texts and a lot more.
A resource that is designed to advance research in matters of religion. The site covers a wide variety of topics on religious traditions worldwide.
Yale Divinity Library Research Guide for Christianity
Yale’s research guide for Christianity is one of the best and most complete resource guides available.
Wabash Center Guide to Internet Resources in Theology and Religion
This website is a selective, annotated guide to a wide variety of electronic resources of interest to those who are involved in the study and practice of religion: syllabi, electronic texts, electronic journals, web sites, bibliographies, liturgies, reference resources, software, etc. The purpose of the Guide is to encourage and facilitate the incorporation of electronic resources into teaching.
This website provides more than 6,000 articles and chapters. Topics include Old and New Testament, Theology, Ethics, History and Sociology of Religion, Communication and Cultural Studies, Pastoral Care, Counseling, Homiletics, Worship, Missions and Religious Education.
Ethics and Religion
The Institute for Theology and Peace
A research institution of the Catholic Church established by the Catholic Military Chaplaincy. The emphasis of research and documentation is on the political and social debate on questions of peace from a theological-ethical point of view.
University of San Diego’s Ethics Updates
A portal aimed at promoting the discussion of difficult moral issues.
Religion and Ethics Newsweekly
PBS’ portal is where some of the major issues are being talked about.
Counterbalance Interactive Library
Offering views on complex issues from science, ethics, philosophy, and religion. Here you'll find extensive resources on the evolution/creation controversy, biomedical ethical challenges, and much more. Counterbalance is a non-profit educational organization working to promote counterbalanced perspectives on complex issues.
Religious Facts and Statistics
American Religious Identification Survey 2001
Provides a myriad of facts and figures. The site was created by the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
U.S. Religious Landscape Survey
Based on interviews with more than 35,000 American adults, this extensive survey by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life details the religious makeup, religious beliefs and practices as well as social and political attitudes of the American public.
Frequently Requested Catholic Church Statistics
Provides information such as the number of churches, diocese, schools, adherents and much more.
U.S. Congregational Life Survey
The largest and most representative profile of worshipers and their congregations ever developed in the United States.
Provides a general timeline of the Christian movement from past to present.
http://www.thenagain.info/WebChron/Christianity/Christianity.html
Provides statistical information on over 4,200 religions, denominations, churches, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, and movements. Data are derived from census data, polls, surveys and organizational reports.
Association of Religion Data Archives
This site explores congregational membership in every county, state, and urban area in the United States. Based on the Religious Congregations and Membership Study collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies this is the most complete census available on religious congregations and their members.
Hartford Institute for Religion Research
Devoted to sociological research in the area of religion. The site provides information about various Institute research projects on issues such as women and religion, congregations, religion and the family, etc. Links to articles by leading scholars in the sociology of religion are also included, as well as bibliographies, syllabi, and other scholarly resources.
Harvard University began a pioneering study of America's changing religious landscape. Through an expanding network of affiliates, we document the contours of our multi-religious society, explore new forms of interfaith engagement, and study the impact of religious diversity in civic life. In 2000, we expanded our study of pluralism to other multi-religious societies.
World Fact Book: Countries of the World
Includes a link that provides access to information on the religious composition of countries around the world.
Classical and Biblical Study Online Resources
An award winning web directory of internet resources on the New Testament. Browse or search annotated links on everything connected with the academic study of the New Testament and Christian Origins
Resource Pages for Biblical Studies
Devoted to the social world of early Christianity. If you’ve ever wanted to know about Qumran, Pseudepigrapha or Apocrypha, this is a good place to start.
A site for Bible students who are looking for detailed information on the
history of the canon, texts, and versions of Scripture. Ancient Greek and Hebrew texts and more online.
An excellent collection of primary and secondary documents relating to the Gnostic tradition.
An evolving digital library of resources for the study of the humanities and includes hundreds of classical texts and tools for translation. A full translation and interactive parsing function with a dictionary is automatic with many texts!
Perseus Project (Reference)
The library also provides an abundant selection of Greek, Hebrew and Latin linguistic reference resources and translation tools.
Lexicons, dictionaries and concordances.
iTanakh - Resources for Academic Study
A guide to languages, texts, historical context and research methodology dealing with the ancient near east.
A website that provides a portal to ancient Near Eastern web resources, including archaeological excavation reports, editions of ancient and modern texts, core early monographs, dictionaries, journals, and reports in the public domain.
