Religion and Theology Resources

• Bibles, Dictionaries, Lexicons, and Encyclopedias 
• Biblical Studies Sites
• General Religious Sites
• History
• Journals
• Online Texts
• Other Libraries
• Subject Directories
• Theology and Philosophy

 

Bibles, Dictionaries, Lexicons, and Encyclopedias  

• Holman Bible Dictionary
• The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
• Bible Gateway searchable Bibles, including English and foreign language Bibles
• Bible Search Engine includes Greek, and Strong's numbers
• Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon
• Exegetical Resources
• Greek Language and Linguistics Gateway
• Greek Language Tutorial
• Judaism and Jewish Resources
• Koine Greek Study and Research Page
• Learning New Testament Greek
• Liddell and Scott Greek Lexicon
• Online Bible Concordance
• Online Greek Bible (26th edition of Nestle-Aland)
• Strong's Concordance with Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

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Biblical Studies Sites

• Abbreviations commonly used in biblical and theological studies
• Bible Geocoding shows the location on Google Earth of every identifiable place mentioned in the Bible
• Bible Research internet resources for students of scripture
• BSW: Biblical studies on the web
• Biblical Words Pronunciation Guide
• Codex " This site contains various resources for Biblical Studies, Old Testament Hebrew, religion & popular culture, theology, film, and more."
• Dead Sea Scrolls Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature (including bibliographies, introduction and basic facts about the DSS, etc.)
• Early Jewish Literature links to primary sources
• Electronic Resources for Classicists one of the most comprehensive sites for classical Greek and Roman literary works
• The Goodspeed New Testament Manuscript Collection comprises 65 items that range in date from the 7th to the 19th centuries
• Gospel of Thomas
• New Testament Gateway a directory of Internet resources related to the New Testament **
• N. T. Wright Page
• Oxford Scholarship Online
• The Paul Page "dedicated to the new perspective on Paul" **
• Perseus Project ancient Latin and Greek primary texts, images, language, etc.
• Pseudepigrapha, Apocrypha and Sacred Writings
• Religion Online
• Resource Pages for Biblical Studies links to sites "focusing on the early Christian writings and their social world."
• Review of Biblical Literature founded by the Society of Biblical Literature, this is a free site that provides online reviews of recent books in biblical studies and related fields
• SBL Standard Abbreviations
• Second Temple Synagogues
• TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism
• The Use of Scripture in Early Judaism and the new Testament

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General Religious Sites

• American Religion Data Archive ARDA collects data for the study of religion in America, including polling data on religious beliefs, practices and opinions in North America from a variety of agencies and faiths.
• Bible Geocoding shows the location on Google Earth of every identifiable place mentioned in the Bible
• Bibliographies on the Net (from the University of Calgary)
• Compludoc Spanish index of scholarly journals from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Focus on SPANISH journals
• Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative (ATLA member libraries) : The CDRI database provides access to digital images of woodcuts, photographs, slides, papyri, coins, maps, postcards, manuscripts, lithographs, sermons, shape-note tune books, and various forms of Christian art, architecture, and iconography
• Cyberhymnal includes hymns and gospel songs as well as photos and biographical information.
• DIALNET includes a major index to "scholarly output in the Spanish language." Lists of journals covered under the heading "Búsqueda Rápida por Inicial" , or below this by subject heading such as 'Humanidades'.
• INFOMINE Scholarly Internet Resource Collections (choose SociSci and Humanities)
• Intute (Religion and Theology)
• Latin American Periodicals Table of Contents
• Lectionaries Old and New
• MisLinks : a web-based missions directory
• Perseus Project : an electronic collection of texts, art, and other materials about the ancient world, with some works of the Renaissance.
• Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites
• Pulpit and Pew: Research on Pastoral Leadership
• Religious Studies Web Guide : an extensive collection of links to religious studies resources of academic value, organized by topic and by type of resource, and searchable. Includes bibliographies and electronic texts. Maintained by Saundra Lipton of the University of Calgary.
• Research In Ministry (RIM) index of D. Min projects
• Revised Common Lectionary
• Virtual Religion Index "analyzes and highlights important content of religion-related websites to speed research"
• Voice of the Shuttle: searchable guide to religion resources on the Internet, created by Alan Liu at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
• Wabash Center Guide to Internet Resources for Teaching Theology and Religion : a well-organized guide to high-quality Internet resources for the study of religions.
• World Christian Database "provides comprehensive statistical information on world religions, Christian denominations, and people groups."

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History

For numerous websites related to historical periods of time or geographical locations (e.g. Renaissance and Reformation history; or African history) see Trinkle and Merriman's book "The History Highway 3.0” (call number D16.117 H57 2002).

• Ancient History Source Book
• Anit-Nicene, Nicene, and Post-Nicene Fathers
• Breaking the Seal " the Open University Web site to accompany the television series "Breaking the Seal" - 6 half-hour programmes investigating documents, what we can learn from them, and their use and abuse of documents as evidence. "
• British History Online "the digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust, we aim to support academic and personal users around the world in their learning, teaching and research."
• Byzantine Studies
• CELT 'the online resource for Irish history, literature, and politics"
• Christian Classics Ethereal Library extensive collection of classic theological works from all periods of church history. Contains all the works of the church fathers.
• Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in Antiquity
• Ecole Initiative primarily a finding aid for pre-reformation church history and historical theology on the web. It includes links to many primary source documents translated into English, as well as some original articles and many images.
• Feminisit Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources
• Gift of Speech archive of women's speeches from around the world that have influenced history or were given by famous women.
• A Guide to Research in the History of the Medieval Christian Church
• Guide to Uncovering Women's History in Archival Collections a geographical listing of libraries (mostly in the U.S.) with archival collections relating to women's history.
• The Hall of Church History
• History of Missiology Over 700 complete books and resources have been digitized for the use of scholars and students
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook
• Jewish Roman World of Jesus
• Labrynth: Resources for Medieval Studies
• Online Medieval and Classical Library
• Project Wittenburg :home to works by and about Martin Luther and other Lutherans. Here you will find all manner of texts such as short quotations, commentaries, hymns , statements of faith, theological treatises, biographies, and links to other places where words and images from the history of Lutheranism live.
• Theology.ie (sponsored by the Irish Theological Association)
• Through the Front Doors: Methodist Women's Journey to Ordination (Pitts Theological Seminary Library)
• ViVa Women's History "Viva is a current bibliography of women's and gender history in historical and women's studies journals. Articles in English, French, German, Dutch, and Scandinavian languages are selected from 180 European, American, Canadian, Asian, Australian and New Zealand journals. All bibliographic descriptions are stored in the ViVa database. It now contains more than 10,000 records describing articles from 1975 onwards. It is online and freely accessible. You can search the database, and, for titles from 1995 on it is possible to browse by year of publication."
• Wesleyan Studies (from Seattle Pacific University)
• Women's History Network a national association concerned with promoting women's history and encouraging women interested in history
• The Works of Augustine
• The Works of Jonathan Edwards (Yale University)
• Yale Divinity Digital Image and Text Library "provides digital resources for teaching and research"

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Journals

The following is a non-exhaustive list of journals accessible, mostly for free, on the Internet.

Search many of these journals simultaneously (via a Google Custom Search engine) at Sally Sheldon's Thelological Journals Search

• Affirmation and Critique Biblical, theological studies; published by Living Stream Ministires; indexed in ATLA Religion database. Some full-text available.
• Biblica a free online journal (from 1998), published by the Pontifical Institute in Rome, dedicated to biblical studies on the Old and New Testament and intertestamentary literature; covering fields of research such as exegesis, philology, and history.
• Concordia Theological Quarterly (Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, IN)
• Denver Seminary Journal "An online review of current biblical and theological studies."
• Directory of Open Access Journals free, full-text scientific and scholarly journals in a number of disciplines, including religion. Over 700 journals in the directory.
• Find Articles free periodical index for 300 titles that include full-text. Follow the research tips to search effectively.
• Free Theological Electronic Journals List compiled by the American Theological Library Association (ATLA) Special Committee of the Association for International Collaboration.
• Full-text Theology Journals Online (St. Mary's University--not necessarily free)
• Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet a new journal with complete online full-text hosted by Heidelberg University, apparently wholly devoted to studying religion on the Net.
• Index Theologicus : from Tubingen University, this database contains document descriptions (i.e. citations and some abstracts but no full-text) from more than 600 periodicals and from Festschriften and congress publications. Updated daily.
• Journal for Christian Theological Research a free journal (from 1996) in systematic and moral theology. It is indexed in the ATLA Religion database as well as Religious and Theological Abstracts (RTA).
• Journal of Markets & Morality "promotes intellectual exploration of the relationship between economics and morality from both social science and theological perspectives, bringing together theologians, philosophers, economists, and other scholars for dialogue concerning the morality of the marketplace"
• The Medieval Review free online scholarly journal including research articles, review articles and book reivews.
• Minister's Council an online journal issued by the Minister's Council of the American Baptist Churches. Eventually all the back issues will be added as well.
• Philosophy e-journals compiled by the American Philosophical Association
• Reviews in History from the Institute of Historical Research (University of London) this is a free online journal of book reviews and articles.
• TC: A Journal of Text Criticism an "electronic journal dedicated to the study of the Jewish and Christian biblical texts" with scholarly articles, project reports, and book reviews.
• Theology Today
• Wabash Center list of online journals an annotated listing of a variety of online journals in the area of theology and religion

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Online Texts

• British Library Gutenberg Bibles
• Catholic Encyclopedia online version of the classic 1913 edition explaining Catholic doctrines, past and present. See the updated and revised print format (which contains hundreds of new, signed articles on a wide variety of topics and w
• Christian Classic Ethereal Library classic Christian texts in electronic format
• Fathers of the Church
• Gottingen Guttenberg Bible
• Index of Articles on Jewish Studies
• Jewish Encyclopedia
• New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge
• Online Books Page
• Religion Online
• Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica

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Other Libraries

Searching other libraries can be very useful when trying to discover what is available in your area of research.

• Amicus Canada's National Database
• American Universities (and international universities) Provides links to library catalogues for American universities.  There are also links for international universities and Canadian universities.
• COPAC British Libraries
• National Online Public Access Catalogue, providing unified access to the online catalogues of some of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland, including Cambridge, Oxford, Trinity College, Edinburgh, London, Leeds, etc.
• LIBWEB International directory of academic, public, and other library web pages and catalogs.
• Simon Fraser University
• St. Mark's / Corpus Chrisit College
• Trintity Western University
• University of British Columbia

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Subject Directories

Subject Directories organize Internet sites by subject, allowing users to choose a subject that interests them and then browse through the resources in that category. Subject directories do not, however, have links to every piece of information on the Internet and are much smaller than search engine databases since they are compiled by people rather than computer programs.

• Academic Info Searching under “Subject Gateways—Humanities” provides links for religion, history, philosophy, etc
• BUBL LINK use BUBL LINK when you are researching a broad topic and want a collection of Internet resources recommended by information professionals
• INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections a large collection of scholarly Internet resources. It is a searchable  directory of scholarly Internet resources, with topics grouped by subject. Each entry is annotated with a description of the site.
• Librarians' Index to the Internet the LII is a well-organized, selective, and continually updated collection maintained by a large number of indexers in California.
• Open Directory Project

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Theology and Philosophy

• Fides Quaerens Internetum (The Christian Theology Page)
• Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts (St. Mary's College, University of St. Andrews)
• Internet Resources for the Study and Teaching of Theology “Annotated list of Internet resources relating to theological studies.”
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Summa Theologica St Thomas Aquinas
• Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) A source for theses/ dissertations in theological studies in North America
• Theology Through the Arts (University of Cambridge and University of St. Andrew's)
• Wabash Guide to Internet Resources for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion includes electronic texts, electronic journals, websites, bibliographies, syllabi, etc.
• Women & Theology: annotated list of links to Internet resources related to women in religion, feminist theology, and the feminine divine.

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