Centre College Library Resource Guide
Oxford University Virtual Tutorial for Internet Research in Religious Studies
Pew Research Center for Religion and Public Life
ATLA Library Guides on Religion
UC Santa Barbara’s Voice of the Shuttle—Religious Studies Resource Page
Immanent Frame: Secularism, Religion, & the Public Sphere
The Revealer: A Review of Religion and Media
Killing the Buddha: An Online Magazine of Religion, Culture & Politics
Huge Collection of Online Religious Studies Texts
Free Online Encyclopedias
Free Article Databases
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Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
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Provides access to article citations. Some articles are available full text for free, others for a fee.
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Google Theological Journals Search
Search over 340 religion journals related to scripture studies, systematic theology, practical ministries, and cognate disciplines for which full text is freely available on the Internet.
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Online Theology-Related Periodicals
An extensive annotated list of electronic journals. Maintained by Elizabeth T. Knuth at the College of St. Benedict.
Resources for Background on Religious Traditions, History, Profiles, Data, Statistics, Ethnography Projects
*Selected by the
Selected by American Theological Library Association (ATLA) for ATLA Selected Religion Websites Project and drawn from Yale University Library Guide to Free Online Resources
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Statistical information on over 4,200 religions, denominations, churches, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, and movements.
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American Religious Identification Survey 2001
This report summarizes a ten-year follow-up study of religious identification among American adults, undertaken for the first time in 1990. Carried out under the auspices of The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, the 1990 National Survey of
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*Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA)
Interactive site that includes national profiles of religious groups, maps, tables, charts, surveys and reports. -
Frequently Requested Catholic Church Statistics
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*Hartford Institute for Religion Research
The Institute site provides information about various research projects in the sociological study of religion, including issues on women and religion, congregations, religion and the family, etc. -
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.
Image Resources for Religious Studies
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Ancient and Modern Maps on Jewish History Maps and atlases from biblical to modern times, with a focus on places and periods that were significant to Jewish history. Collected by the Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Art in the Christian Tradition Database Freely available, regularly updated visual image internet resource designed for scholars, students, pastors, and religious educators. All of the images may be used for educational and/or religious non-profit purposes.
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*ATLA Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative Repository of digital resources contributed by member libraries of the American Theological Library Association (ATLA).
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*Biblical art on the WWW Database accompanied by a collection of thumbnail pictures with links to images hosted by other sites. Searching the database can be done by biblical subject, biblical text, artist, and keyword or phrase.
- *Digital Scriptorium Image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts.
- *Internet Mission Photography Archive Historical images from Protestant and Catholic missionary collections during the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. More than 28,000 images of biblical illustrations, portraits of religious leaders, printers’ devices, engravings of church buildings, and other theological topics.
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*Pitts Theology Library Digital Image Archive More than 28,000 images of biblical illustrations, portraits of religious leaders, printers’ devices, engravings of church buildings, and other theological topics.
- Islamic Illuminated Manuscripts (Asia Society)
Resources Culled by Yale University by Topic