Religion, Comparative Subject Guide
Web Resources
15 resources available
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The sources listed here are, for the most part, free World Wide Web sites offering useful information for the Department of Comparative Religion faculty and students as opposed to the Web-based databases which the Libraries license.
This comprehensive Web site indexes a variety of academic sites for the study of religion, including directories, indexes, libraries, academic departments, societies, centers, and associations.
Contains the complete texts, which were published between 1656 and 1940, of all the lives of the ancient, medieval and modern saints. Serves as an electronic index for 68 volumes of saints' lives. This subscription is limited to four simultaneous users. Please logout when finished.
Department of Comparative Religion at WMU
The departmental WMU page links to a major Web site titled "Why Study Religion" that is sponsored and developed by the American Academy of Religion, and was funded by a grant from the Lilly Endowment, Inc. The site address such questions a Why Study Religion? Where do I Start? and What Will I Study?
Links to Sikh scriptures, history, way of life and related subjects. Includes its own search engine.
Provides links to 17,000 sites about Hindu culture and religion, distinguishing among scriptures, philosophy, customs, history, and interfaith relations.
This electronic journal has no print equivalent. It is a free electronic resource, to be used by itself or in conjunction with other scholarly resources.
Provides, in addition to religious texts, texts from mythology, folklore, legend, and occult subjects. There are 46 categories, including, for example, "The Age of Reason," which provides full-text of writings by freethinkers such as Thomas Paine, Charles Darwin, and Mark Twain.
In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives
This index lets users perform searches within letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies that are freely available on the Web and in Alexander Street databases. Users can access thousands of personal narratives in English from archives and repositories everywhere. Includes links to full text, audio, and video whenever available.
This site provides the full-text of the Qur'an in 20 different languages, tools for searching the text, links to Muslim beliefs, Islamic history and related subjects.
Jainism: Jain Principles, Tradition, and Practices
Links in ten categories, including Jain texts, images, pilgrimages, and organizations.
From the table of contents links lead to a great variety of resources about Jewish culture, history and religion.
Religion, Religions, Religious Studies
This links to numerous sites for the study of religion all over the world.
This site provides introductions to the world's major religions: Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Animism, Christianity, and Hinduism.
Resources for the Study of Buddhism
http://online.sfsu.edu/~rone/Buddhism/Buddhism.htm A gateway to many sites for the study of Buddhist religion and culture.
Subtitle: English-language scholarly and philosophical information. The page includes:
Introductions to Taoism or Daoism
Chinese Language and Culture
Classical Texts
Tao Te Ching or Dao De Jing
Chuang-tzu or Zhuang-zi
I Ching or Yi Jing
The Sun-tzu Art of War
Acupuncture, Alchemy, Feng Shui
Buddhism and Confucianism
Chinese Philosophy
Taoism and Martial Arts
Taoism and Modernity
Taoist Commercial Sites
Other Information Sources