A GUIDE TO RELIGIOUS STUDIES RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET
by John L Gresham MLS PhD
PEOPLE RESOURCES
On-line and off-line religious studies communities
- Academic Communities
- Religious Studies Depts. and Seminaries / Scholarly Societies
- Religious Communities
- Christian Denominations / All Religions
- Virtual (Online) Communities (electronic conferences)
- about e-conferences / religious studies e-conferences
Academic Communities
Religious Studies Depts. and Seminaries
- Association of Theological Schools Membership Directory Info about and links to theological schools in U.S. and Canada (organized alphabetically, geographically and denominationally)
- Theological Schools of North America (list maintained at Fuller Seminary) comprehensive listing of Christian and Jewish theological schools in North America (organized alphabetically, geographically and denominationally)
- Online Directory of Departments & Programs of Religion in North America searchable directory from Council of Societies for the Study of Religion.
- Religious & Theological Studies Schools, Departments and Programs (listed in Gene Thursby's Religion Religions Religious Studies pages)
Scholarly Societies and Associations in Religious Studies
- General Religious Studies
- Biblical Studies
- Social Science & Religion
- Theology
- Catholic Theological Society of America
- The College Theology Society
- Christian Theological Research Fellowship
- International Network for Societies of Catholic Theology (INSeCT)
- More Christian Theological Societies, Institutes etc from Bryan Stone's Christian Theology Page
- Missiology
- Religious Education
- New Religious Movements
- CESNUR Center for the Study of New Religions
- AAR New Religious Movements Group
- Religion and Science
- Religious/Denominational Groups
- Inter-religious Dialogue
- Ethics
- Philosophy of Religion
- More religious studies societies can be found listed:
- Religious Studies Societies from the Scholarly Societies Project at University of of Waterloo
- Religious Studies Societies, Centers and Associations at Academic Info
- Scholarly Societies from Internet Theology Resources by Clemens/Alcuin Library
Religious Communities
Christian Denominations
- Christian Denominational & Religious Organization Web Pages from World Council of Churches --official and unofficial Church pages as well as world regional and national ecumenical organizations. See also this list of Official Denominational Websites maintained at Hartford Seminary (they also have a list of Para-Church organizations)
All Religions
- Faiths and Denominations Collection of links from the Internet Public Library
- Religious Organizations at Yahoo Worldwide links to organizations from all religions
Virtual (On-line) Communities
: Electronic Conferences (Online Discussion Groups) in Religious Studies
- Electronic Conferences (also known as lists, listservs, mailing lists, discussion lists, electronic forums, or computer conferences) are continuous on -line discussion groups which provide a virtual space on the Internet where scholars can exchange information via e-mail about an area of shared interest. For an introduction to academic uses of e-conferencing (based upon participant/observation and informal survey of religious studies e-conference participants) see: John Gresham, " From Invisible College to Cyberspace College: Computer Conferencing and the Transformation of Informal Scholarly Communication Networks." Interpersonal Computing & Technology: 2(4) 1994.
Religious Studies E-Conferences
(Online Discussion Groups, email lists, etc.)
- Religious Studies E-Conferences subset of Dianne Kovacs' Directory of Scholarly and Professional Electronic Conferences
- Religion lists at DiscussionLists.com
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Updated 10/18/06