Introduction to Religion

Extensive list of primary source documents on issues relating to the interaction of religion and politics, categorized by era from ancient times to the present.

Links to numerous websites of religious texts (Bahai / Bible/ Buddhist / Christian / Confucian / Hindu / Islamic / Jain / Jewish / Sikh / Taoist / Unification Church / Zoroastrian / Other).

Christianity Today advocates for the church, shapes the evangelical conversation, brings important issues to the forefront, and provides practical solutions for church leaders.

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP) was founded in 1995 as a non-profit organization to provide open access to detailed, scholarly information on key topics and philosophers in all areas of philosophy. At present the IEP is visited by over 500,000 persons per month.

This resource provides quantitative data related to religion in the United States and internationally.

Provides access to up-to-date publications, topics, interactives, news, data, and other resources.

The National Study of Youth and Religion is a research project designed to enhance our understanding of the religious lives of American youth from adolescence into young adulthood, using telephone survey and in-depth interview methods.

The U.S. Religion Census reports the number of congregations in every U.S. county equivalent for each of 236 faith groups. County, state, metro, or national totals, as well as graphic information about specific groups, is provided.

Faith Communities Today is a series of ongoing research surveys and practical reports about congregational life, conducted and published by the Cooperative Congregations Studies Partnership, a multi-faith group of religious researchers and faith leaders.

"[P]rovides 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 Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) strives to democratize access to the best data on religion. Data included in the ARDA are submitted by the foremost religion scholars and research centers in the world. The ARDA is funded by the Lilly Endowment, the John Templeton Foundation, Chapman University and the Pennsylvania State University.

Christian Classics Ethereal Library is a digital library of class Christian works, including the Church Fathers and leaders of the Reformation.

The library is a multi-lingual global digital library on theology and ecumenism that offers access to more than 200,000 texts, documents and other academic resources.

Provides free access to the Vatican Library’s digitized collections of manuscripts and incunabula.

Large digital collection of Princeton libraries' theological offerings.

The digitized portions of the collection of the Leo Baeck Institute which is devoted to the study of German Jewish heritage. Contains manuscripts, memoirs, images, some books and periodicals, and recordings, including oral histories of the Holocaust.

Objectives are to digitise and present on the Internet quality Islamic resources, related to the history, law, practice, and society of the Islamic religion with particular emphasis on Twelver Shia Islamic school of thought.

An online selecton of titles from the Cornell University Library's extensive collection of materials on Witchcraft. The Witchcraft Collection documents the earliest and the latest manifestations of the belief in witchcraft as well as its geographical boundaries, and elaborates this history with works on canon law, the Inquisition, torture, demonology, trial testimony, and narratives.