Academic blogs : religion/theology
http://www.academicblogs.org/wiki/index.php/Religion/Theology
Part of the Academic Blogs wiki, the Blogs in Religion and Theology Web page provides a substantial list of weblogs written by theologians and religious studies scholars. Links to the blogs are given, some of which are accompanied by a short description. As the site is a wiki, users are encouraged to contribute details of other suitable blogs, and to expand or provide descriptions for those already listed. The blogs featured are varied in approach and tone, ranging from the strictly academic to more informal journals: posts include scholarly essays, book reviews, personal responses to current issues (both within the academic sphere and more generally), and conference reports. Many, although not all, of focus on Christian theology. A useful site, especially for those wishing to forge online links with other academics in the field.
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Alliance of religions and conservation
http://www.arcworld.org/
The Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC) is a UK-based secular organisation which aims to assist major world religions to develop environmental programmes which are faithful to their own teachings and practices. It was established in 1995 and this website provides information about: its history, vision and strategy; and the projects it has undertaken. It also contains a search engine; news headlines and news archives; a number of downloadable documents; and a section which provides an overview of the following faith traditions and their views on ecology: Baha'i; Buddhism; Christianity; Daoism; Hinduism; Islam; Jainism; Judaism; Shintoism; Sikhism; and Zoroastrianism.
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American Academy of Religion
http://www.aarweb.org/
The website of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) provides information about the world's largest professional association for those involved in the teaching and research of religion. The site offers membership details, information about the Academy's annual meeting, and a host of useful resources. Some of these (AAR publications and job adverts, for example) are available only to members of the Academy, but others are freely accessible. These include the AAR syllabus project (a large collection of religious studies syllabi contributed by college and university teachers), articles, and useful links to related organisations and resources. Unsurprisingly, the site has an American focus, but much of the material here will be of interest to academics worldwide.
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American Theological Library Association
http://www.atla.com/
The American Theological Library Association, established in 1946, is an organisation devoted to providing products and services in support of theological and religious studies libraries and librarians. The Association's website contains: news about conferences and workshops that may be of interest to members; tools for librarians; professional development pages; email discussion groups; and information on the products offered by ATLA. These include the ATLA Religion Database, the Research in Ministry index, and the ATLA Preservation Program Catalog (APCAT), amongst others. Membership of the Association 'is open to anyone engaged in professional library or bibliographic work in theological and religious studies, or who has an interest in the literature of religion, theological librarianship, and the purposes and work of the Association'. Institutional members are also welcomed.
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ATLA (American Theological Library Association) catalog
http://www.atla.com/products/catalogs.html
The ATLA (American Theological Library Association) Catalog Web page gives details of various ATLA products that may be of interest to theologians. Access to three free online databases is provided: the Research in Ministry index of project reports and theses by Doctor of Ministry and Doctor of Missiology students; the Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative, which offers digital images (including photographs, artwork, manuscripts, and so on) useful for the study and teaching of religion; and APCAT, the catalogue of the ATLA Preservation Program, which records bibliographic information for theological publications which have been preserved on microform.
The site also provides information about the ATLA Religion Database (though the database itself requires an institutional subscription, and cannot be accessed through the site). With over 1.4 million records, the database is the foremost index of scholarly journal articles, reviews, and essays published in multi-author works. A very valuable set of resources for theologians.
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Australian association for the study of religions
http://www.aasr.org.au/
This is the homepage of the Australian Association for the Study of Religions (AASR). It has a membership of over 300 scholars and students with knowledge and experience of religious traditions. Chaired by Dr Toni Tidswell, the association serves as a forum for the advancement of the study of religion in its broadest dimensions. This website contains information about membership, conferences organised by the the association; and its members' publications. It also links to the homepage of the association's journal, the Australian Religion Studies Review. The site provides a search engine and unannotated links to the homepages of relevant organizations.
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Axis mundi
http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/axismundi/
This is the homepage of 'Axis Mundi', a web-based academic journal (ISSN: 1496-2798) maintained by Religious Studies students at the University of Alberta, Canada. The journal publishes articles on all aspects of the academic study of religion and accepts submission from undergraduate and graduate students from universities and colleges across Canada. This website contains information about the journal's submission policy and editorial staff. It allows access to all materials published since academic year 1999/2000. Materials from more recent volumes are presented in PDF, hence needing Adobe Acrobat Reader for access. Links are also provided to the homepages of Canadian and international Religion journals. A search engine is offered. The journal is sponsored by the Religious Studies Department at the University of Alberta.
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Backdoor broadcasting company
http://backdoorbroadcasting.net
Backdoor Broadcasting Company is an online broadcast provider to the internet worldwide and locally to its homebase of Oxford, United Kingdom. Upon invitation to an event, the Company records the proceedings and makes them available. It offers two services: the Academic Service, which broadcasts academic conferences, symposia, public lectures and workshops in order to provide widespread access to academic research. The Sound Experiment records novel experimental music, sound art and sonic events and similarly offers them for public consumption. The Academic Service archive presents many recorded lectures that will be of interest to researchers in religion, history, philosophy and comparative literature, among other diverse fields. Several align with current debates around religious issues in international affairs and cultural studies connected to marginalized groups and perspectives.
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Beunans Meriasek (The Life Of St Meriasek)
http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=beunansmeriasekpeniarthms10
This website reproduces digitally the manuscript (Peniarth MS 105B) containing Beunans Meriasek, one of only two Middle Cornish saint's plays known to survive (see also Beunans Ke). Over a hundred folios (recto and verso) are reproduced on the site. The play may, in its present form, date from the second half of the 15th century; the main scribal hand is dated to 1504. The play recounts St Meriasek's early education in Brittany, the miracles he performed after moving to Cornwall, and how he returned to Brittany and became bishop of Vannes. The manuscript is also notable for the Latin and Cornish stage directions.
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Canadian corporation for studies in religion
http://www.ccsr.ca/
The Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion (CCSR) is a consortium of seven academic bodies active in the field of Religious Studies in Canada. It was established in 1971 and is presided over by Paul-Hubert Poirier of Laval University. This website provides links to the homepages of the seven organisations as well as a number of other resources on the academic study of religion in Canada. The latter include job listings; commentaries; information on the latest news in the field (e.g. conferences and calls for papers; new courses on offer; and workshops); book features; and transcripts of interviews. The corporation also publishes 'Studies in Religion' and this website displays the table of contents of the latest issue. In addition, links are provided to the homepages of Canadian departments of religion and theological colleges; academic societies and journals.
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Coptic fonts
http://www.ccer.nl/article50.html
The Centre for Computer-aided Egyptological Research (CCER) website provides four Coptic fonts, which may be downloaded free of charge. These fonts include that used by Glyph for Windows. The fonts are TrueType, and available in bold, italic, and plain text. Accented characters are available through the keyboard. Once loaded on one's machine, the fonts can be also be used in other Windows programs.
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Credo reference
http://corp.credoreference.com/
Credo Reference (CredoReference formerly Xrefer) is a digital reference library containing the texts and images from over 150 printed reference works. There are over a million separate entries in total. Credo reference covers the full spectrum of academic and general interest subjects, with the arts and humanities well represented. Reference works include various dictionaries, thesauri, books of quotations, atlases, plus subject specific titles. History titles include works such as Routledge's Companion to British History and various Who's Who titles; there is also the Dictionary of British History, the Encyclopaedia of the Renaissance; and a Concise Atlas of World History. For philosophers there is the Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, the Macmillan Dictionary of Philosophy, plus the Bloomsbury Guide to Human Thought. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics is also provided. For students of literature there is a Dictionary of Shakespeare, the Bloomsbury Dictionary of English Literature, The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English, and the Cambridge Guide to Theatre. An Atlas of the Bible and the Macmillan Dictionary of the Bible, along with a Who's Who of Old and New Testament characters provide useful reference resources for Bible scholars. There are also a couple of resources that might be useful to Classicists. All volumes may be search simultaneously, or searches may be narrowed to a particular subject area, or a particular reference work. Many entries contain hyperlinks across reference works to related subjects of interest. Credo reference is a subscription service and is available to higher and further education institutions in the UK under a license agreement negotiated by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).
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Department of philosophy and religion @ american university
http://www.american.edu/cas/philorel/
This is the homepage of American University (AU)'s Department of Philosophy and Religion. It provides information on the academic programmes, scholarships and grants available, and a description of the modules on offer. There are details of recent events (e.g. conferences, lecture series and workshops) and lightly annotated links to websites dealing with issues which are of interest to those working in areas related to religion and philosophy. Of special interest to undergraduates is a section dedicated to Study Aids. This contains annotated links to online resources which provide guidelines on research; writing (papers, theses and dissertations); and academic integrity.
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Folklore
http://haldjas.folklore.ee/folklore/
Folklore (ISSN 1406-0957; e-version ISSN 1406-0949) is a refereed journal published quarterly by the Folklore Department of the Institute of the Estonian Language. Based on a simple design, the site is fast and easy to navigate, and contains fascinating articles that cover not only folklore, but associated subjects, such as religion and customs, paremiology, narratives, ethnomusicology etc. The book review section is a particularly useful aid to scholarship. The full-texts of papers are available in both printed and electronic versions. Access to the electronic edition of the journal is free of charge.
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Forum on religion
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/religionforum/
This is the website of the Forum on Religion which is based in the European Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). The forum was established to provide a space for LSE scholars and the public to discuss a wide range of issues pertaining to faith and religion in the contemporary era. This website offers information about the seminar series and public lectures they organise. It also provides links to the transcript, and the audio and video recordings of the Religious Faith and Human Rights lecture given by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, at one of their public lectures. Information is given on how to join their mailing list and the site offers a search engine.
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Full-text theology journals online
http://library.stmarytx.edu/acadlib/subject/theology/theoejrn.htm
Hosted by the Louis J. Blume Library at St. Mary's University, 'Full-text theology journals online' is an extensive online listing of electronic journals for students of theology and/or religious studies. This directory of journals was originally built for the St. Mary's academic community, so some publications are available only through the university's own computer system; however, this accounts for only a small proportion of the texts on offer and the excellence of the collection makes it a worthwhile list for all. A system of symbols is used to indicate which journals are restricted to home users, which offer free access, and which require a subscription fee. Users should note that electronic versions of back issues are often only available for the last few years (broadly speaking, since the Internet has been in widespread use), though you may be able to find indices to earlier editions through the journal's home page. Unfortunately, this site does not appear to be regularly updated, and as a result there are some broken links, but there is still a substantial amount of useful information here for those working in this field.
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Heythrop gateway
http://www.heythrop.ac.uk/about-us/library-and-learning-resources/heythrop-
This website is maintained by Heythrop College, the Specialist Philosophy and Theology College of the University of London. It provides over 100 annotated links to online resources selected on the basis of their suitability for students of philosophy and theology. These include access to websites containing ebooks; bibliographical resources; and those dealing with subject-matters like philosophy; the Bible; Church history; churches; theology; and world religions. Guidance is also provided on how to cite World Wide Web documents. Navigation of the site is straightforward.
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Higher Education Academy : Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies
http://www.prs.heacademy.ac.uk/
The website of the Philosophical and Religious Studies (PRS) Subject Centre of the Higher Education Academy provides information and support for educators working in the fields of philosophy, theology, religious studies, and history and philosophy of science. The website offers: details of forthcoming conferences and workshops; articles and discussion pieces; and information of use to academics in all subject areas, such as guidelines on plagiarism. The Centre publishes the biannual journal 'Discourse: Learning and Teaching in Philosophical and Religious Studies', and PDF versions of each issue are included here. The Centre also makes available a series of grants for the development of teaching and learning in religious and philosophical studies.
The PRS Subject Centre is part of the Higher Education Academy's network of 24 such centres, which support the sharing of innovation and good practices in learning and teaching, including the use, where appropriate, of communications and information technology. This subject centre was formerly a branch of the Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN).
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Håndskrifter fra Søren Kierkegaard arkivet på Det kongelige bibliotek
http://www2.kb.dk/kultur/expo/sk-mss//index-en.htm
This website presents a selection of excerpts from the manuscripts of Søren Kierkegaard dating between 1834 and 1855. The selection is based on an exhibition of 1996 displayed in Copenhagen at the Round Tower. The images are generally clear and easy to read (although, of course, the papers are in Danish and some familiarity with nineteenth-century handwriting is an advantage). The site itself has an English version, and is equipped with an index of manuscript titles and call marks, two essays on Kierkegaard, a selection of portraits, information on his contemporaries, and a chronology. The contemporaries section provides brief biographical notices and a selection of portraits. There are also photographs of old Copenhagen. This is a charming site which should be of use not just to the specialist but to a general reader who would like a sense of Kierkegaard and his times.
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Index theologicus (IxTheo)
http://www.ixtheo.de/
Index Theologicus, or IxTheo, is a free bibliographic database of theological articles published in over 600 periodicals worldwide, plus festschrifts and conference proceedings. A very sophisticated search function aids location of relevant material, and a helpful tutorial shows new users how to make the most of this. The main focus of the database is on articles written in western European languages, including thousands of resources in English. The website which hosts the database is in German, with an English version also available (although there are occasional pages which have not yet been fully translated - such as, for example, the Current Awareness section, which gives details of the works added to the database in the last month). This index is a valuable resource for students and researchers of theology and religious studies.
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Initiative on religion and politics at Yale
http://www.yale.edu/religionandpolitics/
This is the homepage of the Initiative on Religion and Politics which is based at Yale Divinity School. It was set up to enhance scholarly thought, debate and activitism on the place of religion in public life, both at national and international levels. This website contains their vision statements and details of past events (e.g. conferences; forums; exhibitions; and the screening of documentaries). It provides a section on 'Theological Reflections' from where viewers can access a small number of articles and sermons. Annotated links are also given to the homepages of a number of organizations. A search engine is available. The initiative is led by Dr. Melissa Matthes.
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Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs
http://www.bu.edu/cura/
This is the home page of the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs (CURA) at Boston University. It was founded in 1985 by Peter L. Berger to investigate how religion and culture affect economic and political developments around the world. This website contains: information about the institute's history and vision; details about the programs it coordinates like seminars and projects; a calendar of events; information about publications resulting from the institute's projects (on themes like the culture of entrepreneurship, business and democratization, and globalization and culture); the institute's press releases; and links to relevant websites.
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International center for religion and diplomacy
http://www.icrd.org/
The International Center for Religion and Diplomacy aims to help resolve identity based conflict like ethnic conflict, tribal warfare and religious hostilities, through incorporating religion as part of the solution. It is involved in several such peacemaking process around the world since its inception in 1999, and provides training and faith-based reconciliation seminars. This homepage informs visitors about their mission, activities and personnel. It contains details about news and events, and on how to get involved in the center's work. Access is given to their annual reports as well as project and research reports. These are available in PDF and requires Adobe Acrobat Reader. This would be an interesting resource for those exploring the role that religion can play in the resolution of conflicts around the world.
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International institute for hermeneutics
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/iih/
The International Institute for Hermeneutics, founded by Andrzej Wiercinski, is a research institute dedicated to providing a forum for interdisciplinary collaboration on modern hermeneutics, particularly in the fields of philosophy, theology and comparative literature. The institute has hosted a major International Congress on Hermeneutics (the proceedings of which are complied and published by the Hermeneutic Press), and sponsors lectures and seminars dedicated to hermeneutics, and also publishes the annual refereed journal, Annalecta Hermeneutica. The site contains a brief introduction to modern hermeneutic theory, posts upcoming events the Institute is planning, and contains information on how to order publications from the Hermeneutic Press. The site is well presented and accessible.
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Internet theology resources : online theology-related periodicals
http://www.users.csbsju.edu/~eknuth/itr/jour.html
Part of Elizabeth T. Knuth's Internet Theology Resources website, the Online Theology-Related Periodicals page provides a list of annotated links to the home pages of electronic journals: both those which appear only on the Web, and those which appear both in print and online. Some of the publications listed offer free full text access, while others provide only abstracts and/or selections to non-subscribers: in most cases, the link annotations indicate how much of the work is available. An indication is often also given of the intended audience of a particular publication - while many are scholarly journals, some works of more general interest are also listed. A helpful reference source for those studying or researching religion and theology.
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