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Archives de sciences sociales des religions - Indexed by author and keyword.

Catholics in the Military - See also Vincent Capodanno, the official website for the cause of Canonization for Rev. Vincent Robert Capodanno, The Grunt Padre by Daniel L. Mode and A Chaplain's Chaplain by Peter Duffy, Wall Street Journal, March 7, 2008.

Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative - American Theological Library Association and the Association of Theological Schools. "Provides access to digital images of woodcuts, photographs, slides, papyri, coins, maps, postcards, manuscripts, lithographs, sermons, shape-note tune books, and various forms of Christian art, architecture, and iconography." You can Search the Database or Browse the Collections.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas - Full-text of the out-of-print book edited by Philip P. Wiener, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973-74. Topics include nature, humanity, art, history, politics, religion and philosophy, math and logic. Made available by the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library.

Electronic Text Center - University of Virgina. Searchable collection of etexts. Includes Concise Dictionary of Religion by Irving Hexham, 1993, Book of Mormon and the Koran. Other source for electronic texts is the Online Books Page where you can browse by author, title and subject.

Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

Catholic Encyclopedia - Over 11,000 articles provided by New Advent .

Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas - Full-text of the out-of-print book edited by Philip P. Wiener, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973-74. Topics include nature, humanity, art, history, politics, religion and philosophy, math and logic. Made available by the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library.

Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography

Easton's Bible Dictionary - Electronic edition of M.G. Easton's 1897 Illustrated Bible Dictionary from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library at Calvin College.

Encyclopedia of Shinto - "English translation of the Shinto jiten edited by the Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics and published by Kobundo in 1994 (the text as translated here reflects certain emendations to the original Japanese version). Links to video images, illustrations, photographs and sound files have been added anew." (Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University)

Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online - Mennonite Historical Society of Canada

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary - Roswell D. Hitchcock, New York: A. J. Johnson, 1874, c1869. Contains "more than 2,500 Bible and Bible-related proper names and their meanings." (From the Christian Classics Ethereal Library)

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Edited by James Fieser, University of Tennessee at Martin, the site is aimed at undergraduates and includes 200 philosophy articles and several original texts.

Jewish Encyclopedia - "Contains the complete contents of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, which was originally published between 1901-1906. The Jewish Encyclopedia, which recently became part of the public domain, contains over 15,000 articles and illustrations."

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Signpost Articles - Selections

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - A publication of the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University, the site is edited by Edward N. Zalta and, as a 'dynamic encyclopedia,' "constantly changes with the addition of new entries and the modification of existing entries." The site is searchable and provides a What's New page.

English Literature and Religion - Maintained by William S. Peterson, a Professor of English at the University of Maryland, the site consists of a Bibliographical Database, in pdf format, about religious aspects and backgrounds of English literature, Electronic Texts consisting of The Book of Common Prayer, Christmas Carols, Jeremy Taylor's Holy Dying and William Law's A Serious Call. There are also links to Online Library Catalogues and Links to Web Sites of Related Interest.

Ephrata Cloister - "One of America's earliest religious communities, the Ephrata Cloister was founded in 1732 by German settlers." There is an interesting museum store with hand-crafted goods (not yet online) and you can order authentic Pennsylvania German fare at the Cloister Restaurant across the street.

Episteme Links: Philosophy Resources on the Internet - Thomas Ryan Stone has compiled a collection of thousands of sorted links to philosophy resources on the Internet. There is a New Additions section.

Esalen Institute - Big Sur, California

Ethics Connection - Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University

Ethics Updates - Edited by Lawrence M. Hinman, the site "is designed primarily to be used by ethics instructors and their students...to provide updates on current literature, both popular and professional..."

Facets of Religion - Maintained by Casper Voogt. (Part of the WWW Virtual Library.)

Fathers of the Church - "English translations of some of the Church Fathers, drawn from the 38-volume Edinborough edition."(New Advent).

Fire and Ice: Puritan and Reformed Writings - Bill Carson's full-text collection of practical, devotional, and experiential works.

First Things: A Journal of Religion and Public Life - Browse by issue or search by keyword.

Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies - FARMS is a "tax-exempt educational foundation, established in 1979. Its main research interests include ancient history, language, literature, culture, geography, politics, and law."

Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online - Mennonite Historical Society of Canada

Fourth Way - Gurdjieff Ouspensky School

Gold Koran - Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries. (In February 2000 John Hopkins University returned a section of a this rare ninth century Koran to Turkey's Nuruosmaniye Library.)

Gnostic Society Library - With full-texts from the Nag Hammadi Library

Gold Koran - Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries. (In February 2000 John Hopkins University returned a section of a this rare ninth century Koran to Turkey's Nuruosmaniye Library.)

Goodspeed Manuscript Collection

Graduate Theological Union - Berkeley, California. Provides a comprehensive collection of links to religious resources on the web, including New Religious Movements which "focuses on alternative religious and quasi-religious non-Judeo-Christian groups which are new to the U. S. and Canada, or have grown significantly since 1960. Links to resources on Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Sufism, occult, metaphysical movements, neo-paganism, witchcraft, new age communes, feminist spirituality, and some human potential movements are included on this page."

Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America

Guide to Early Church Documents - ICLnet (Institute for Christian Leadership)

Guide to Philosophy on the Internet - Peter Suber, Philosophy Department, Earlham College.

Gurdjieff Home Page

Gutenberg Bible - At least three are available online: Göttinger Universität, Keio University and the British Library.

Hancock Shaker Village - Pittsfield, Massachusetts

Has America Blurred the Church-State Line? - Kraft Family Fund's program series on "Religion in the Public Sphere," presented dissenting views on the role of courts in the intelligent design debate. Video of the event held at Columbia University, March 28, 2006. Participatants included Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger; Noah Feldman, Professor of Law, New York University; Imam Al-Hajj Talib 'Abdur-Rashid, Head of the Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood in Harlem; R. Kent Greenawalt, Law Professor; Albert Mohler Jr., President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; and Suzanne Last Stone, Professor of Law at Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University.

Harvard Divinity School - The Andover-Harvard Theological Library provides useful links to E-Resources on religion. Among the Projects and Resources of the Center for the Study of World Religions is the Religions of the World and Ecology conference series.

Hill Monastic Manuscript Library - With Manuscript Images.

Hippias: Limited Area Search of Philosophy on the Internet - "Peer-reviewed search engine that provides access to philosophy-related resources."

History of American Socialisms - Full-text of the 1870 book by John Humphrey Noyes, founder of the Oneida Community in upstate New York in the Making of America Project: Michigan.

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary - Roswell D. Hitchcock, New York: A. J. Johnson, 1874, c1869. Contains "more than 2,500 Bible and Bible-related proper names and their meanings." (From the Christian Classics Ethereal Library)

Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) - Library of Congress collection of measured drawings, large-format photographs, and written histories for more than 35,000 historic structures and sites dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Search by keyword or browse by subject or geographic location. There are four photographs of Indian Castle Church, State Route 55, Town of Danube, Herkimer County (Fort Hendrick), taken by photographer Nelson E. Baldwin on May 5, 1936. "Indian Castle Church was built in 1769 by Captain Samuel Clyde for Sir William Johnson, who presented it to the Canajoharies (Mohawks of the Upper or Canajoharie Mohawks Castle), in 1770. It is the only Colonial Indian Mission Chursch standing in New York State and the only surviving Colonial building of the Mohawks or Iroquois Castles. The Church was built on land owned by Joseh Brandt [Brant], the famous Mohawk Chieftain, who was noted for his pity [piety?] and who translated the gospel of St. Mark into the Mohawk language. During the Revolution, the Mohawk Indian raiders, formerly residents here, attempted to steal the bell of this old church. They, however, neglected to fasten its clapper and its ringing awakened the parish settlers who armed themselves, sallied out and recovered the old church bell." (Data Page 2).

Holiness Classic Collection - Over one hundred 19th century religious texts digitized by the Wesley Center for Applied Theology. (To access, you must request a unique user-name and password. "Contact the Wesley Center. Send us your real name, email address, and complete postal address. We normally reply to such requests within 24 hours.")

Humanities Text Initiative - Has Searchable Religious Texts including Die Bibel, Martin Luther translation, Bible: King James Version, Bible: Revised Standard Version, Bible: New Testament (Rheims 1582), The Book of Mormon and The Koran.

Humbul Humanities Hub - Religion & Theology Resources

Hume Archives - "Repository of electronic texts by and about 18th Century Scottish Philosopher David Hume" is provided by James Fieser, Department of Philosophy, University of Tennessee at Martin.

Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art

Husserl Page - The aim of Bob Sandmeyer's site is to "provide easy access to those net resources pertaining to the life and work of the 20th century philosopher, Edmund Husserl."

ICLnet: Institute for Christian Leadership

In the Beginning Was the Word: the Russian Church and Native Alaskan Cultures - Library of Congress

Institute of Sacred Music - Yale University

Institute for the Study of American Religion - Organization based in Santa Barbara, California provides Cultwatch: A look at cults in America.

International Bible and Theology Gateways- University of Passau

International Philosophical Preprint Exchange

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Edited by James Fieser, University of Tennessee at Martin, the site is aimed at undergraduates and includes 200 philosophy articles and several original texts.

Internet Sacred Text Archive - Archive of significant primary texts relating to religion and mythology. Texts are presented in English translation and, in some cases, in the original language. Maintained by J.B. Hare.

Ism Book: A Field Guide to the Nomenclature of Philosophy - Peter Saint-André

J. Paul Getty Museum - Los Angeles. They provide over 1,000 images of the objects in their Collections. Among the Manuscripts are Religious Service Books, Scripture and Devotional Books. There is a Subject collection page devoted to Religion with images depicting Angels, Christ, Demons, Female Saints, Male Saints, Mary, Old Testament Figures and Rites and Rituals.

Japanese Journal of Religious Studies - Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture. The articles in the Special Issues from 1979 to 2001 are available in full-text and include Religion and Society in Contemporary Japan: A Tribute to Yanagawa Keiichi, Tendai Buddhism in Japan, Folk Religion and Religious Organizations in Asia and Pilgrimage in Japan.

Jewish Studies - Rochelle S. Elstein, Northwestern University Library.

Jewish Encyclopedia - "Contains the complete contents of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, which was originally published between 1901-1906. The Jewish Encyclopedia, which recently became part of the public domain, contains over 15,000 articles and illustrations."

John Locke Bibliography: a comprehensive listing of publications by and about John Locke - John C. Attig began compiling the bibliography in 1975 by 2005 it contained over 9000 entries. There is a subject index and a name and title index.

Joseph Campbell Foundation

Journal of Buddhist Ethics - Wayne R. Husted

Karl Popper Web - Ray Scott Percival's site is dedicated to the philosopher Karl Raimund Popper (1902-1994). See also Obituary of Karl Popper in the Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 94, pp. 645–684, December, 1997.

Koran - Searchable by keyword and browsable by chapter. Electronic version of M. H. Shakir's translation of the Holy Qur'an, as published by Tahrike Tarsile Qur'an. Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia

Last Day of Socrates - "Created to help first year philosophy students read the Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and the death scene from the Phaedo in order to help them prepare for philosophical discussion of these texts in the classroom." (Clarke College, Dubuque, Iowa)

Library of Congress Webcasts - See also Library of Congress Podcasts

Writing the Story of America's Religious Origins - Susan Jacoby, Mark Noll, Steve Prothero, Jonathan Sarna , 20 November 2006 [119 minutes].

Life of Adam and Eve: The Biblical Story in Judaism and Christianity - Constructed by Gary A. Anderson of the University of Virginia and Michael E. Stone of Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is a project of the Institute for Advanced Technology

Louis Segond Bible - In French

Lutheran Hymnal - MP3, lyrics & sheet music.

Manuscripts from the Søren Kierkegaard Archive - Royal Library, Copenhagen.

Martin Buber - Andreas Schmidt, Universität Karlsruhe. Also available in English.

Material History of American Religion Project - Columbia Theological Seminary project in which eight scholars, historians of American religion, are writing monographs on topics in the material and economic history of American religion.

Matrix: A Collection of Resources for the Study of Women's Religious Communities, 500-1500 - Collaborative effort by an international group of scholars of medieval history, religion, history of art, archaeology, religion, and other disciplines, as well as librarians and experts in computer technology to document the participation of Christian women in the religion and society of medieval Europe.

Mennonite Central Committee - "Relief and development arm of the North American Mennonite and Brethren in Christ churches." Offers links to related resources.

Missionary Periodicals Database - Currents in World Christianity.

Monastery of Christ in the Desert - Near Abiquiu, New Mexico

Moravian Church

Mormon Literature Database - "Scholarly resource to literary writings by and about Mormons." Maintained by the Mormon Literature Database Committee at the Harold B. Lee Library of Brigham Young University.

Mr Wesley's Preachers - John Rylands Library exhibition provides portraits, manuscripts and biographical information about preachers who played a significant role in the early history of the Methodist Church

Multi-Lingual Bibles - ARTFL Project

Mundus: Gateway to Missionary Collections in the United Kingdom - "Guide to more than four hundred collections of overseas missionary materials held in the United Kingdom."

Music for the Church of God

National Council of Churches

National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections - Searchable via RLIN AMC File Advanced Search Form, an Easy Search Form (word list) and an Easy Search Form (left-anchored phrase).

NET Bible - Biblical Studies Foundation's New English Translation is "the first completely new translation of the Bible to be done in the age of the Internet." (For a review of the site see Beta-testing the Bible, in the December 10, 1998 Web Citations column in Atlantic Unbound.)

New Advent - Catholic website

New Religious Movements - Jeffrey K. Hadden, Department of Sociology, University of Virginia.

New Testament Gateway - Directory of internet resources related to the New Testament maintained by Mark Goodacre, University of Birmingham.

Newman Reader: Works of John Henry Cardinal Newman - Bob Elder.

Noam Chmosky Archive - Contains the full text to many of Chomsky's major works, the complete audio to several important lectures, and numerous articles, interviews and speeches.(Tom Lane, ZNet)

The Notebook for Contemporary Continental Philosophy - Links to philosophy resources maintained by Scott H. Moore, an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University.

Oneida Community Collection - "Inventories and bibliographies relating to Oneida Community materials held at Syracuse and elsewhere, the full text of several books written by, and about, members of the Community, and 140 selected photographs..." (Department of Special Collections, Syracuse University Library.)

Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance - Descriptions of 63 religions, faith groups and ethical systems provided be four volunteers

Order of Saint Benedict - Offers a site map and provides information on Association of Benedictine Retreat Centers, Association of Benedictine Colleges and Universities, Benedict, Scholastica and other Saints and the St. John's Bible (see article in Smithsonian).

Paideia Project - Online archive of contributed papers to the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy held in August 1998.

Papers of Thomas Reid - Trial pages of the papers of the eighteenth-century philosopher are accessible. (University of Aberdeen)

Partenia: Diocese sans frontieres - Jacques Gaillot

Partners for Sacred Places - Promotes the stewardship and active community use of historic religious properties in the U.S.

Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life

U.S. Religious Landscape Survey - "Based on interviews with more than 35,000 Americans age 18 and older, this extensive survey by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life details the religious affiliation of the American public." (February 2008)

Philsophers' Magazine on the Net (TPM Online) - Edited by Jeremy Stangroom

Philosophy at Large - Philosophy Department, University of Liverpool

Philosophy Research Base - Danne Polk's metaindex is categorized by history, subject and author.

PhilWeb: Philosophy Resources Off- and On-Line - Richard L. W. Clarke

Pluralism Project: World Religions in America - Directed by Diana Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University. Among the resources offered at the website are World Religions in Boston, Resources by Tradition, Resources by State, Audio & Video Resources, religious calendar, and a Directory of Religious Centers.

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

Princeton Theological Seminary - Provides access to the library catalog, Princeton Lectures on Youth, Church, and Culture from 1996 and to the Center for Barth Studies.

Project Canterbury - Anglican texts. Emphasis is placed on documents expressing the Catholic identity of Anglicanism. Hosted by the Society of Archbishop Justus, this is a rich source of Anglican documents online. Charles Wohlers' collection of texts of the Book of Common Prayer includes the The First Book of Common Prayer (1549) attributed to Thomas Cranmer. (You can read a bystander's account of The execution of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer in 1556.)

Project Wittenberg - Works by and about Martin Luther and Lutheranism; includes texts, hymns, theological treatises, and biographies; Bob Smith, Institute for Christian Leadership.

Psychology of Religion Pages - Michael Nielson, Department of Psychology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia

Quaker Archives and Library of Canada - Volunteers are transcribing early Canadian minute books up to about 1850. in the Quaker Minute Book Transcription Project. There is also a good collection of links to other Quaker resources.

Quaker Pages - Maintained by Peter Sippel

Quran Browser - Searchable by passage, word, or word part.

Radio Vaticana - "La voca del Papa." Official radio station of the Vatican. On demand news of the Vatican in many languages.

Ramsay Traquair: the Architectural Heritage of Quebec - Consists of over 7,000 images of architectural buildings and over 600 images of silver artifacts used for religious and domestic purposes.

Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly - PBS

Religion and the Founding of the American Republic - Online companion to the Library of Congress exhibition ( June 4 - August 22, 1998) of over 200 objects including early American books, manuscripts, letters, prints paintings, artifacts, and music.

Religion Online: Full texts by recognized religious scholars - "More than 3,000 articles and chapters. Topics include Old and New Testament, Theology, Ethics, History and Sociology of Religion, Communication and Cultural Studies, Pastoral Care, Counseling, Homiletics, Worship, Missions and Religious Education.

ReligionLink - "Resource to help print and broadcast journalists when they encounter religion in stories about government, politics, education, social services, science and other areas of public life." Edited by Diane Connolly, former religion editor of The Dallas Morning News.

Religions of the World - Minnesota State University site covers Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Animism, Christianity and Hinduism.

Religious and Sacred Texts - Links to full-text resources collected by David A. Wiley, II

Religious Freedom Page - Hosted by the University of Virginia, there also is a Religious Movements Page.

Religious Society of Friends

Renaissance Liturgical Imprints: A Census - University of Michigan database of information about worship books printed before 1601.

Resource Pages for Biblical Studies - "Focusing the early Christian writings and their social world." (Torrey Seland, Biblical Studies Department, Volda College, Norway.)

Resources for the Study of East Asian Language and Thought - WWW Virtual Library site maintained by Charles Muller, Professor of East Asian Philosophy and Religion, Toyo Gakuen University, Chiba, Japan.

Restoration Movement - "Nineteenth-century unity and restitution effort by Barton W. Stone and Thomas and Alexander Campbell spawned several distinct religious groups: the Churches of Christ, the Christian Churches, and the Disciples of Christ." Maintained by Hans Rollmann, Department of Religious Studies at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, the site includes Historical texts and Pictures.

Ricci Roundtable on the History of Christianity in China - Database of primary and secondary resources on the history of the China mission. (Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History University of San Francisco.)

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Signpost Articles

Royal Institute of Philosophy - Offers a selection of Articles from the journal Philosophy, as well as texts from lectures, seminars and events. Includes a collection of Essential Philosophy Links.

St. Michaels Abbey - Farnborough, UK, monastery and mausoleum commissioned by the Empress Eugenie to bury Napoleon III and the Prince Imperial.

St. Pachomius Library - Literature of the early Christian Church includes English translations of the Church Fathers, the acts of the Christian martyrs, the proceedings of the Councils, and the lives of the early saints; Orthodox Christian Foundation.

Saint Patrick's Church Index of Saints - Katherine I. Rabenstein.

Samantabhadra Archives - "Electronic and collaborative project that will facilitate the reproduction, analysis, and interpretation of all known editions of the large canon of Tibetan Buddhist religious texts known as The Collected Tantras of the Ancients (rNying ma rgyud 'bum) and related Bonpo texts. (David Germano).

Sanskrit Texts and Stotras - Dale Steinhauser's site contains a wide variety of Sanskrit texts and stotras in pdf format. Most of the texts are in Devanagari script with English translation. You can also hear Vedic Pundits recite various Sanskrit and Vedic texts in Audio Recordings of Sanskirt Texts.

Secular Web - Freethought web site's mission is "to defend and promotemetaphysical naturalism, the view that our natural world is all that there is, a closed system in no need of an explanation and sufficient unto itself."

Semiotics - University of Colorado at Denver School of Education

Shaker Manuscripts On-Line - Pass the WORD Services

Sikhnet

Society of Biblical Literature - Nonprofit professional association for scholars in the field of biblical studies. Their Review of Biblical Literature is searchable and browsable from 1966 to the present, with full-text book reviews.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - A publication of the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University, the site is edited by Edward N. Zalta and, as a 'dynamic encyclopedia,' "constantly changes with the addition of new entries and the modification of existing entries." The site is searchable and provides a What's New page.

Subject Bibliographies on Environmental Ethics - "Intended to facilitate research and public discussion of the ethical issues embedded in the environmental concerns of our day." Compiled and edited by Timothy C. Weiskel, Center for the Study of Values in Public Life at the Harvard Divinity School.

Talk Origins Archive: Exploring the Creation/Evolution Controversy - "Usenet newsgroup devoted to the discussion and debate of biological and physical origins. Most discussions in the newsgroup center on the creation/evolution controversy, but other topics of discussion include the origin of life, geology, biology, catastrophism, cosmology and theology."

Tao Te Ching - Ming L. Pei provides "the full text of TaoDeJing consisting of 81 Chapters [which] can be browsed chapter-by-chapter from beginning to the end." In English & Chinese.

Taoism Information Page: English-language scholarly and philosophical information - "Established by J.Patrick Narkinsky. It has been revised and is maintained by Gene R.Thursby."

Ted Honderich - Homepage of the editor of The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. (You can hear a TPM Online interview with Honderich by Jeremy Stangroom about Honderich's new autobiography, Philosopher: A Kind of Life.)

Tibetan & Himalayan Digital Library - David Germano, University of Virginia. There is a section for Religion.

Tibetan Book of the Dead: Literature and Artwork on Prayer, Ritual and Meditation From the Religious Traditions of Tibet, India and Nepal - Online exhibition at the University of Virginia Library, November 2, 1997 - March 14, 1998.

Torah, Bible, Coran Livres de Parole - exposition en images - Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Toward on-line, worldwide access to Vatican Library materials - IBM is working with the Vatican Library to digitize over 20,000 documents from its rare manuscripts collection. (IBM Journal of Research & Development, Vol. 40, No. 2).

Union Theological Seminary - New York. Sophia: Wisdom and Research Online, the integrated library system maintained by the libraries of Union Theological Seminary and General Theological Seminary, is searchable.

Unitarian Universalist Association - Their Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography provides short biographies about famous Unitarian Universalists in history (William Ellery Channing, Julia Ward Howe, Horace Mann, Samuel Joseph May, Margaret Fuller).

Value of Knowledge: A Miniature Library of Philosophy - Andy Blunden has assembled the writings of 120 philosophers.

Vatican Library - Telnet access to the URBS Online Public Access Union Catalogue of the Vatican Library which contains publications (books and serials) in the holdings of fourteen libraries in Rome, acquired by or included in this database after 1991.

Virtual Christianity: Bibles - Stephen Adkins maintains this "comprehensive list of on-line English and Foreign Bibles

Virtual Religion Index - Comprehensive site from the Religion Department at Rutgers University.

Vivarium - "Digitized manuscripts, art, rare books, photographs, audio, video, and other resources from two Benedictine monastic and educational communities in central Minnesota." Among the digitized texts are The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ According to the Authorized Version of King James I with Decorations by Eric Gill, Golden Cockerel Press, 1931 with original maize buckram and quarter pigskin binding by Sangorski and Al-Coranus S. Lex Islamitica Muhammedis Felii Abdallae Pseudoprophetae, Ad optimorum Codicum fidem edita ex Museo Abraham Hinckelmanni, D., Hamburg, Schultzio-Schilleriana,1694. The collection is browsable by collection type: manuscript illuminations (4864), original drawings & paintings (48), photographs (402) etc.

Voice of the Shuttle: Religious Studies Page - Alan Liu, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Voltaire Foundation - University of Oxford

Wabash Center Guide to Internet Resources for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion - Comprehensive, annotated and well-organized collection created by Charles K. Bellinger, a public services librarian at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Watchman Fellowship - "Our mission with this site is to present a readily accessible Christian response to cults and new religious movements." Has an Index of Cults and Religions.

Wesleyan Chinese Philosophical Etext Archive - "Electronic texts of Confucian and Confucian-inspired texts from the 11th century (CE) to the present"

William Ellery Channing Center - "William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) was a pivotal figure in the literary and religious life in nineteenth-century America. Variously remembered as a Unitarian minister, a foe of slavery, and an essayist, much of his influence has now waned. This center hopes to re-expose this great man to a new readership by publishing his best work electronically (some now out of print in paper) and supply links to works about Channing."

William James - Frank Pajares, Division of Educational Studies, Emory University.

The Window - Philosophy on the Internet - Chris Marvin and Frank Sikernitsky.

Wittgenstein Archives - University of Bergen

World Council of Churches

World Scripture: A Comparative Anthology Of Sacred Texts - "Collection contains over 4000 scriptural passages from 268 sacred texts and 55 oral traditions, and is organized in terms of 164 different themes. This text is the result of a five-year project involving the collaboration of an international team of 40 recognized scholars representing all the major religious traditions of the world. This archive contains the complete text of the original hardbound version." (Published by International Religious Foundation, Paragon House, New York, 1991, 914 pages.)

Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875 - Collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography which attempts to include every novel published in the United States from 1851 to 1875. Project of the Indiana University Digital Library Program. There are currently 2,887 volumes included (2,109 unedited, 778 fully edited and encoded) by 1,394 authors. You can search the full-text. Wright "listed a total of 2,923 titles in adult fiction, including "novels, novelettes, romances, short stories, tall tales, tract-like tales, allegories, and fictitious biographies and travels, in prose" (from the introduction), and inventoried 18 American libraries for holdings. This compilation is part of his three-volume set listing American fiction from 1774 through 1900, and is still considered the most comprehensive bibliography of American adult fiction of the 18th and 19th centuries."

Yale Divinity School

Yale University Research Guide: Christianity

Yorkshire Quaker Heritage Project - Brynmor Jones Library, University of Hull

Zen Buddhist Texts - Site includes random zen quip generator, primary Zen texts, and dictionary of Zen and Buddhist terms. Created by Steven Newton, Southwest Chogye International Zen Academeia, Houston, Texas.