Online Resources

 

General

Religion:

  • Why Study Religion?
    "A website sponsored and developed by the American Academy of Religion"
  • Academic Info:  Religion Gateway
    "Academic Info is an independent online subject directory of over 25,000 hand-picked educational resources for high school and college students as well as a directory of online degree programs and admissions test preparation resources (SAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, GMAT, USMLE, TOEFL)."
  • Religious Worlds
    "www.religiousworlds.com is an information source for religion, religions, religious studies"
  • Virtual Religion Index
    "This site is designed to advance research in matters of religion. ... This Virtual Religion Index is a tool for students with little time. It analyzes & highlights important content of religion-related websites to speed research. Hyperlinks are provided not only to homepages but to major directories & documents within. Our purpose is not to circumvent tours of worthy sites, but to cut down the time spent on surfing & sorting of automated searches...."
  • World Wide Web Virtual Library: Religion
    "The WWW Virtual Library (VL) is the oldest catalogue of the Web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of HTML and of the Web itself, in 1991 at CERN in Geneva. Unlike commercial catalogues, it is run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert; even though it isn't the biggest index of the Web, the VL pages are widely recognised as being amongst the highest-quality guides to particular sections of the Web."
  • Religious Studies Web Guide
    "This web site, in existence since 1995, focuses on free internet resources of use to researchers involved in the academic study of religion."
  • Guide to Online Schools: Guide to Religion and Theology
    "In this guide, we present a few great schools for pursuing a degree in theology, associations you can join, journals you can read, and a list of further resources to guide you along the way to earning an education in theology."
  • Theology Degrees Online
    This website is "dedicated to providing future theology students with unbiased information about their educational options."

Philosophy:

  • Guide to Philosophy on the Internet
    "collection of online philosophy resources" by Peter Suber, Philosophy Department, Earlham College
  • EpistemeLinks
    "EpistemeLinks includes over 19,000 categorized links to philosophy resources on the Internet and has several additional features. Online since early 1997, this site is free to use, and doesn't require user registration of any kind. Begin browsing the site by using the Philosophers or Topics links below, or by using the link category or special feature links below. See also the Custom Search Engines for philosophy."
  • The Internet Encylopedia of Philosophy
    "Most of the articles in The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy are original contributions by specialized philosophers around the Internet; these are identifiable by the author's name at the foot of the article. Others are are temporary, or "proto articles," and have largely been adapted from older sources. They are identifiable by the inclusion of the initials IEP at the close, and will in time be replaced by original articles..."

Religion in the News: 

  • Religion News
    Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, Religion Section
  • Religion News Service
    "The only secular news and photo service devoted to unbiased coverage of religion and ethics exclusively."
  • Religion Newswriters Association
    "The Religion Newswriters Association is a non-profit trade association founded in 1949 to advance the professional standards of religion reporting in the secular press as well as to create a support network for religion reporters. RNA strives to help improve and encourage religion writing excellence in the secular press."
  • Religion Dispatches
    "Religion Dispatches is a daily online magazine dedicated to the analysis and understanding of religious forces in the world today, highlighting a diversity of progressive voices and aimed at broadening and advancing the public conversation."
  • Washington Post religion page
  • Los Angeles Times religion page
  • ACF NEWSOURCE religion archives
  • PBS Religion & Ethics Newsweekly
    "Online companion to the weekly television news program"
  • PBS Faith and Reason
    Online resources realted to the PBS TV program
  • "The Question of God" (PBS)
    "Based on a popular Harvard course taught by Dr. Armand Nicholi, author of The Question of God, the series illustrates the lives and insights of Sigmund Freud, a life-long critic of religious belief, and C.S. Lewis, a celebrated Oxford don, literary critic, and perhaps this century's most influential and popular proponent of faith based on reason."
  • State of Belief
    Air America Radio show: "State of Belief is based on the proposition that religion has a positive and healing role to play in the life of the nation. The show explains and explores that role by illustrating the vast diversity of beliefs in America, the most religiously diverse country in the world, while exposing and critiquing both the political manipulation of religion for partisan purposes and the religious manipulation of government for sectarian purposes."