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CSU Religious Studies Department

• About the CSU Religious Studies Collection
• Course Reserves
• Department Home Page
• New Acquisitions

Educational Resources

• AAR Syllabi Project (course syllabi for the academic study of religion; American Academy of Religion)
• Divining America: Religion and the National Culture (interactive curriculum enrichment; TeacherServe, National Humanities Center)
• Religion and the Founding of the American Republic (Library of Congress exhibition)

Journals

• African Religions
• Ancient Near Eastern Religions
• Buddhism
• Christianity
• Hinduism
• Islam
• Jainism
• Judaism
• Mythology, Comparative
• North & South American Religions
• Oceania Religions
• Rationalism
• Religion - General

Reference Resources

• Adherents.com (statistical information on worldwide religious groups)
• American Religion Data Archive (statistics, reports, surveys, & membership reports)
• Oxford Reference Online: Religion and Philosophy
  • A Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion (Oxford University Press)
  • The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (Oxford University Press)
  • The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (Oxford University Press)
  • A Dictionary of the Bible (Oxford University Press)
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Popes (Oxford University Press)
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Saints (Oxford University Press)
  • The Oxford Guide to People and Places of the Bible (Oxford University Press)
• Review of Biblical Literature (searchable database of more than 2,800 full-text published book reviews from the Society of Biblical Literature; contains detailed subject index)

Research Databases

• Core Research Databases:
  • ATLA Religion Database
  • Index of Articles on Jewish Studies (RAMBI)
  • Religion and Philosophy Collection
• Additional Databases:
  • FRANCIS
  • Humanities International Complete
  • Social Sciences Full Text
  • SocINDEX with Full Text

Sacred Texts

• ARTFL Project: Multi-Lingual Bibles (University of Chicago)
• Bible Gateway (keyword search, passage lookup, & topical index; from Gospel Communications International)
• The Bible in English (search 21 different versions of the English Bible; from the State Library of Ohio)
• Christian Classics Ethereal Library
• Internet Sacred Text Archive (primary and secondary texts of important works of world religion, mythology, legends and folklore, & occult and esoteric topics; primarily in English translation)
• The Koran (English translation by M. H. Shakir, University of Virginia Electronic Text Center)
• New Testament Gateway (directory of New Testament resources: texts, Bible translations and editions, textual criticism, historical Jesus, tools & resources, etc.)
• Taoism Information Page (English translations of the Tao Te Ching)

Specific Faiths

• BuddhaNet (Buddhist Information Network; basic information & education)
• Fides Quaerens Internetum: Christian Theology Page
• Islam and Islamic Studies Resources (resources for studying Islamic culture, politics, history, religion, & language; Prof. Alan Godlas, University of Georgia)
• The Jewish Virtual Library (cyber-encyclopedia of Jewish history, culture, and religion, and Israel, including an archive of key historical documents and the Virtual Israel Experience; from the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise)
• Judaism and Jewish Resources (directory of links by Andrew Tannenbaum)
• MavenSearch (more than 2,500 Jewish/Israel links)
• Pentecostal-Charismatic Theological Inquiry International (newsletters, e-journals, online publications, churches, research collections, etc.)
• Religion Online (full texts of works important to Christian theology & religious education in the Western traditions; more than 1,500 texts; searchable)
• The Religious Movements Homepage Project (profiles of over 200 religious groups and movements; University of Virginia)
• Vatican: The Holy See
• World Council of Churches