Religious Studies: Web Sites

Based at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, this is a collaboration of academic scholars intended to serve as a gateway to reliable, comprehensive knowledge concerning the history of religions around the world, and cultural history more generally.

Link to Buddhist studies databases, academic sites, and academic journals.

The Education Center of this site introduces readers to Islam through an essay on understanding Islam as well as discussions of culture & arts, history, and Islam & science. Other tools include a glossary and lists of Islamic schools.

Link to sites on Islamic religion, history, culture, politics, and geography.

Link to resources one early Christian writings and the social environment of that era.

Search and download statistical data as well as the survey questions that generated the statistics. Covers major and minor religions and denominations represented in the United States.

A professional society of teachers and scholars of religion.

The accrediting body for theological schools in the U.S. and Canada. Members include Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Orthodox Christian schools.

(Rice Univ.)
"A federation of learned societies in the field of religious studies."

(Univ. of Waterloo)
Link to Web sites of scholarly societies worldwide.

(Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ. Indianapolis.)
An association of scholars, church leaders dedicated to the systematic or scientific study of religion.