Academic and Research
Most of these sites are associated with universities, are updated carefully, and are wide in their scope. They do not promote specific religious points of view, but they link to thousands of sites with greatly varied points of view. Most of these sites have links to articles, chapters in books, interviews, and even multimedia presentations. These are the sites to visit for more information or additional perspectives than will be available at most of the sites listed in the previous sections of this Guide. You don’t need to be doing university research to appreciate the quality of what is available here.
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~lipton This site at the University of Calgary (Alberta, Canada) is organized into three sections: format (bibliographies, texts, images, etc), religious group/subject, and useful websites. It was established by librarians and has the logic and order of a good library.http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/rel/
This highly regarded site, maintained at the University of Florida by Gene R. Thursby, provides information about religions, the study of religion, and a number of topics of current interest (virtual religion, cultural diversity, and relations among religions).
The Hartford Institute for Religion Research focuses on religion in North America. It states as its purpose "We are committed to providing quality, social scientific religion research information that is helpful for religious leaders and the general public." It has a section about how religion on the Web is affecting North American religion.
www.pluralism.org The Pluralism Project
This award winning website is the same as www.fas.harvard.edu/~pluralism.
The focus of this project and website at Harvard
University is the religious
pluralism in USA. The "resource" and "links" sections are especially helpful.
virtualreligion.net/vri/ The Virtual Religion Index
The index on the
opening page is extensive and clear. In
addition to specific religions, it has extensive links to anthropology,
archeology, art, philosophy, psychology, and sociology. Until late 2004 this site was linked to Rutgers University.
The University of Missouri Center for Religion, the Professions and the Public (RPP) addresses issues resulting from America's increasing religious diversity, to prevent misunderstandings that can occur when professionals and those they serve come from different religious or cultural traditions. On this site, go to the panel "Resources for", where professions are listed, select a profession, and three options appear:
books (current publications), forum (on line discussion), links (other sites on the topic).
www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/Internet/front.htm
This is the outstanding site maintained by the Wabash Center. You hardly have to go anywhere else for academic links. From the opening page select any subject. For Christians interested in other religions there are sites for specific religions, there is a site for "Inter-religious Dialogue" and also one for "Christian Outreach". Each of these sites then carries articles, speeches, and links to other resources.
http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwrandc/internet_links.html
These links to religious sources are from a site at Wilfred Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. The site has about 15 sections. The most helpful will be "Suggested Starting Points" and "General Guides". The site was last updated in spring 2002, so some of its information and links are not current.