Here's a list of websites helpful for
research in Religion.
http://www.religion-online.org/
Here you will find more than 5,200 articles and chapters from
books. Topics include Old and New Testament, Theology, Ethics, History and
Sociology of Religion, Communication and Cultural Studies, Pastoral Care,
Counseling, Homiletics, Worship, Missions and Religion Education.
http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/
Here you will find profiles of new religious movements that
have developed in the United States.
http://www.geocities.com/shoshindojo/
Here you will find an online Tao-te-Ching, the sacred text in
Taoism.
http://www.hti.umich.edu/k/koran/
Here you will find the Qur'an, the sacred text in Islam.
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~aas/isislam.htm
Here you will find articles on contemporary issues Islam is
facing.
http://bible.gospelcom.net/
Here you will find The Holy Bible, the sacred text in
Christianity.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/
Here you will find most of the major sacred texts of
Buddhism.
http://www.aarweb.org/
This is the American Academy of Religion, the scholarly
society of those engaged in or interested in religious studies.
http://www.interfaithalliance.org/site/pp.asp?c=8dJIIWMCE&b=447561
This is an interesting organization that fosters
communication and tolerance between and among different religious communities.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/
Here you will find articles an all kinds of things interesting to religious
studies from profiles of various religious groups to hot topic issues like war,
racism, abortion, homosexuality.
http://www.sojo.net/
This is the Sojourner's Fellowship, a Christian organization
dedicated to Social Gospel principles.
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/research/rapl/index.html
This is the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public
Life at Boston College.
Here's a list of websites helpful for
research in History.
http://www.historians.org/pubs/Free/WhyStudyHistory.htm
This is the American Historical Association, the scholarly
society for all historians. Specifically, I have linked to an online essay that
is titled "Why Study History." I hope you will read it and become an historian.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html
Here you will find primary source documents from the
Reformation to our Contemporary world.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.html
Here you will find articles and primary source documents of
the Ancient World -- from prehistory through Late Antiquity (fall of Rome).
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
Here you will find articles and primary source documents of
the Medieval world from the fall of Rome to the Reformation.
Here's a list of interesting websites
for calls to action.
http://www.ucsusa.org/
The Union of Concerned Scientists
http://www.gallagherpress.com/pierce/index.htm
Bogged down with stuff. Take a look. A guide to
sustainability.
http://www.simpleliving.net/
Another guide to sustainability.
http://www.studentsagainstsweatshops.org/index.php
Who made your clothes?
http://unr.edu/homepage/fenimore/wilson/consilience.htm
Edward O. Wilson, one of today's great scientific minds. Love
him or hate him, you've got to read him. This is from his work called
Consilience. It contains his theory on the unity of knowledge. Wilson believes
that all human endeavor is "ripe for explaining by hard science."
http://www.brtom.org/wb/berry.html
A site devoted to all things Wendell Berry, conservationist,
farmer, essayist, novelist, professor of English and poet. The New York Times
has called Berry the "prophet of rural America."
http://home.earthlink.net/~hfromm/Berry.htm
A good essay on comparing Wilson and Berry, two contemporary
thinkers with competing (although there is some agreement between the two,
especially on ecological issues) visions of understanding the world.
http://www.nrdc.org/
The Natural Resources Defense Council
http://www.unitedwaynwfl.org/agencies.htm
The United Way of Northwest Florida.
http://www.childrensdefense.org/
Our most important resource: children. Here's the Children's Defense Fund, one
of the nation's most outstanding child advocacy organizations.
http://www.habitat.org/
Habitat for Humanity building homes, building community.
Here's a thought: the good life is more than material decency, but the good life
must be based on material decency.
Do you have a favorite thought-provoking website, a
call-to-action website? Send me a link, I'll check it out and perhaps post it.
