Knox College Library Blog

General

• American Religion Data Archives a searchable database of quantitative data on religion as it is practiced in America.
• Atla’s Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative is a repository of digital resources describing themes in the study of religion; the collection includes images of woodcuts, photographs, slides, papyri, coins, maps, and manuscripts.
• The Internet Sacred Text Archive has an enormous collection of freely accessible full-text religious books.
• Project Gutenberg has a Religion Bookshelf which has online texts for the studies of Atheism, Baha’i, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism.
• UVA’s Religious Movements Project features “detailed profiles of more than two hundred different religious groups and movements.”
• The Wabash Center Internet Guide is a directory of Web sites and syllabi for teaching and learning about theology and religion. The site, maintained and annotated by a theological librarian, can be easily browsed by subject or searched with keywords.

East Asian

• Buddhist Studies, part of the WWW Virtual Library, is an annotated directory to Buddhist resources on the Web. Sub-categories include Pure Land Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, and Tibetan Studies.

Hinduism

• The Hindu Universe’s Resource Center is an organized directory of Hindu resources on the Web. Categories include History, Scriptures, Customs, Social & Contemporary Issues, etc.

Islam

• The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has a good site for current news and spreading awareness of Islam in the U.S.
• Islam and Islamic Studies Resources, maintained by a religious studies professor at UGA, is a directory to online resources about Islam.
• The Islam Page is a comprehensive site for information about Islam.
• The Internet Medieval Sourcebook has a page devoted to Islam with links to full-text sources. See also their Internet Islamic History Sourcebook.

Judaism

• Encyclopaedia Judaica is the searchable online counterpart to the comprehensive 22 volume encyclopedia found in the Seymour Library Reference Room. (Knox only)
• The Internet Medieval Sourcebook also has a page devoted to Medieval Jewish Life.
• Judaism and Jewish Resources is an organized directory of online Jewish resources.

Primary Sources

• The Church in the Southern Black Community (1780-1925) via The Library of Congress’s American Memory Project.
• The Internet Medieval Sourcebook has a wealth of religious history resources. Search the Sourcebook or browse their page on Full-Text Sources and their New Translations.
• The Labyrinth, maintained by Georgetown University, features resources for Medieval Studies, including primary sources and bibliographies.
• The Lutheran Legacy has a browseable and searchable digital library devoted to primary texts of the Lutheran orthodoxy.
• The Nineteenth Century in Print: The Making of America in Books is another Library of Congress American Memory Project. See also The Making of American in Periodicals.
• Monastic Matrix has resources “for the study of women’s religious communities from 400 to 1600 CE” - select European countries. Search their bibliography and limit to Primary Sources.
• Digital Images of Russian Icons can be found here.