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- - Religion - Textual Resources on the web

A supplement to:
Relgion 1101 Course Web Page

The Bible: A Guide to Research

Texts, writings, commentaries, etc.

These resources are freely available unless otherwise noted

Internet Sacred Text Archive - "This site is a freely available non-profit archive of electronic texts about religion, mythology, legends and folklore, and occult and esoteric topics. Texts are presented in English translation and, in some cases, in the original language." - largest religious text archive on the internet.
Religious and Sacred Texts - Contains some material not included in the other sites.
Fathers of the Church - English translations of some of the Church Fathers, drawn from the 38-volume Edinborough edition. They were made available to the Internet through the efforts of the Electronic Bible Society. This very large resource is part of New Advent.org.
The Catholic Encyclopedia
Summa Theologica (St. Thomas Aquinas)
World Scripture: A Comparative Anthology of Sacred Text, An anthology of sacred texts by Dr. Andrew Wilson, containing over 4000 scriptural passages from 268 sacred texts and 55 oral traditions. It is organized in terms of 164 different themes common to all traditions.
Bibliographies on the Net: General / Biblical Studies / Buddhism / Christianity / Confucianism / Hinduism / Islam / Judaism / Native Religion / Taoism/ Women / Other
(http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~lipton/biblio.html)

The Bible
Religion on the Web: The Bible - for commentaries, concordances, dictionaries, etc.
Virtual Christianity: Bibles
This very complete page links to resources for study, and to many versions of the Bible (multi-lingual). The following link comes from this page -
King James / Revised Standard Version - KJV/RSV Browse - Browse KJV and RSV side by side (but separately); by book, then chapter.
ARTFL Project, Multi-Lingual Bibles

Electronic Journals
Electronic Journals: Comprehensive list  from the University of Calgary (many are free full text sources - http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~lipton/journals.html)

Project Muse (accessing these journals requires the UNC Charlotte proxy server)
    • American Jewish History
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Buddhist-Christian Studies
    • Catholic Historical Review    
    • Journal of Early Christian Studies
    • Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture
    • Modern Judaism
    • Proof Texts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History
    • Shofar: Journal of Jewish Studies
    • Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality

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