Research Guides: REL 295 Abrahamic Traditions: Judaism, Christianity, Islam: Theology/Religion Internet Sites

Guides to Resources on the Web

ATLA Guide to Internet Resoures : An annotated guide to a wide variety of electronic resources of interest to those who are involved in the study and practice of religion. The guide provides "open access" resources that are free.

Religious Studies Web Guide: This web site, in existence since 1995, focuses on free internet resources of use to researchers involved in the academic study of religion. This site is from the University of Calgary.

Theology/Religion Web Sites

Association of Religion Data Archives
The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) strives to democratize access to the best data on religion. Founded as the American Religion Data Archive in 1997 and going online in 1998, the initial archive was targeted at researchers interested in American religion.

The following are some recommended web sites that may be of interest to students and researchers of theology:

The Bible Odyssey Website
On Bible Odyssey, the world’s leading scholars share the latest historical and literary research on key people, places, and passages of the Bible.
Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
This nonpartisan organization provides information (news, backgrounders, polls and surveys), but takes no position on "issues at the intersection of religion and public affairs," including bioethics, the death penalty, religion in public schools.
The Pluralism Project
Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University. Developed by Harvard University to study and document the growing religious diversity of the United States, with a special view to its new immigrant religious communities. It includes images, research, calendars and many other links.