Pollard Memorial Library

Religion Links on the Web

Sites with a checkmarkare highly recommended by the Library.

Note: These pages contain links to Internet sites maintained and controlled by third parties. The Pollard Memorial Library does not operate or control the content of these sites. While they are included for their informational value and the convenience of our users, inclusion does not constitute any endorsement by The Pollard Memorial Library.

Directories

• Directory of Religious Centers - An extensive, searchable directory with listings of over 4500 centers across the United States. Contains listings for Buddhist, Hindu, Jain, Taoist, and Zoroastrian Temples and Centers, as well as Baha'i and Pagan Centers, Islamic Centers and Masajid, and Sikh Gurdwaras.

General Religious Sites

• Beliefnet: Multifaith Information - Provides religious, spiritual, and more information and inspiration from a variety of religious and spiritual beliefs. Includes news, discussions, culture, and links to specific believs.
• Religion Online - A database of scholarly full-text religious articles.
• Religious Movements Page - Use the site map for exploring a variety of religious beliefs and organizations, from the University of Virginia.
• Virtual Religion Index - An extensive, selective, and annotated directory of religion resources from Rutgers University.

History

• Beginings: World Treasures of the Library of Congress - Library of Congress exhibit explores the viewpoint of more than 50 cultures' accounts and depictions of the creation or the beginning of the universe.
• Encyclopedia Mythica - "An encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and legend."
• English Literature and Religion - A searchable bibliographic database of "both primary and secondary sources of religious aspects and backgrounds of English literature from the Middle Ages to the present".

Organizations

• The International Association for Religious Freedom - Reports on legislation, persecution and other topics related to religion in countries throughout the world.

Religious Texts

• Bible Gateway - Search The Bible by passage or keyword, in many languages.
• Electronic Texts - An extensive collection of links to various religious texts from the University of Calgary.
• Internet Sacred Text Archive - An archive of electronic texts about religion, mythology, legends, and folklore.
• World Scripture - A collection of over 4000 scriptural passages from 268 sacred texts and 55 oral traditions, organized by theme.

World Religions

• BBC World Service - The basic facts of world religions from the BBC.
• The Pluralism Project - A Harvard University project designed "to study and document the growing religious diversity of the United States, with a special view to its new immigrant religious communities."