Other Internet Portals for Religious Studies


  • Excellent
  • Virtual Religion Index
    http://virtualreligion.net/vri/
    [An extensive, well-organized, and annotated resource maintained by Mahlon H. Smith who also hosts the important and at times controversial Jesus Seminar Forum web site.]

  • Very Good
  • Academic Info on Religion
    http://www.academicinfo.net/religindex.html
    [A very well organized guide to sites, maintained by Mike Madin.]
  • Voice of the Shuttle: Religious Studies Page
    http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2730
    [Alan Liu at the University of California at Santa Barbara (USA) maintains this page as part of an extensive set of resources for humanities research.]
  • Wabash Center Guide to Internet Resources
    http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/Internet/front.htm
    [Mainly but not exclusively Christian-oriented. Describes itself as "A selective, annotated guide to a wide variety of electronic resources of interest to those who are involved in the study and practice of religion: syllabi, electronic texts, electronic journals, websites, bibliographies, listserv discussion groups, liturgies, reference resources, software, etc. The purpose of the Guide is to encourage and facilitate the incorporation of electronic resources into teaching."]

  • Good
  • Open Directory: Religion and Spirituality
    http://dmoz.org/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/
    [A volunteer effort but owned by AOL-Netscape. If consulted with caution and patience, Open Directory can be very useful.]
  • Religion on the Web
    http://users.ox.ac.uk/~worc0337/serious/religion.html
    [A lively and easy-to-read annotated list of links by Dr. Peter J. King, an Oxonian who currently teaches in north London. On other pages at his site, he provides links to resources for philosophy, books and e-texts, skepticism, and a number of other serious and not-so-serious categories.]
  • Religious Studies Internet Links
    http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwrandc/internet_links.html
    [A useful but not frequently updated page compiled by Adrien Desjardins at the Department of Religion and Culture at Wilfrid Laurier University.]

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