See also UVA Databases for Religious Studies.
- Religious Worlds
From Gene Thursby, Professor of Religion at the University of Florida. "Provides general guides, treatment of all major religious traditions, information about new religions and links to religious studies material. "
- The
Pluralism Project Directory of Religious Centers
Searchable and, to a lesser extent, browseable directory of over 3,000
non-Christian or Jewish religious centers across the United States.
Faiths included are Buddhist, Hindu, Jain, and Zoroastrian Temples, as
well as Baha'i and Pagan Centers, Islamic Centers and Masajid, Sikh
Gurdwaras, and Tao Centers and Temples. Search by center name, religious
tradition, city, state, and more. The Project, established in 1991 with
funding from the Lilly Endowment, was developed by Diana L. Eck, professor
of comparative religion and Indian studies at Harvard University.
- Ecclesiastical
Calendar Calculator
Calculate Easter, Lent, Avent, Christmas, and
associated moveable feasts thereof in both Western and Orthodox calendars.
- Hitchcock's Bible
Names Dictionary
Look for Nevuchadnezzar and over 2,500 other
Biblical favorites in this dictionary. Entries are taken from a late
19th-century edition of "Hitchcock's New and Complete Analysis of the
Holy Bible."
- The Catholic
Encyclopedia (1913)
Search the electronic version of the 15-volume
encyclopedia. Covers a "broad range of topics, secular and religious,
from a Catholic perspective."
- Easton's Bible Dictionary
Search the
1897 edition of Easton's for definitions of thousands of terms, place names,
and people from the Bible.
- The Koran
Searchable version from the University of Michigan.
-
ECanon
Online Search Engine for Canonical Texts
Can function as a bible concordance, but beware of errors and omissions.
"Produced with funding from the Society of Biblical Literature and the National Council of Churches, this site
provides five
versions of the Bible: King James, Revised Standard Version and New Revised Standard Version, Westcott and Hort Greek New
Testament. More versions will be forthcoming, as will sacred texts from other religious traditions."
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