Resources
Local Resources
Scholarly Societies
- American Society for Church History
- American Historical Association
- American Academy of Religion
- American Society for Church History
- Catholic Historical Society
- Medieval Academy of America
- Middle East Studies Association
- North American Association for the Study of Religion (NAASR)
- Sixteenth Century Society and Conference
- Society for Biblical Literature
- Society of Pentecostal Studies
- Society for Reformation Research
- Renaissance Society of America
- For other organizations, see American Academy of Religion
Academic Centers
- Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, Boston College
- John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, Washington University
- Pluralism Project, Harvard University
Other Websites
- Adherents.com, a site with a growing collection of over 43,870 adherent statistics and religious geography citations.
- American Religious Sounds, is a resource for studying and interpreting the diversity of American religious life by attending to its varied sonic cultures.
- ARDA, Association of Religion Data Archives
- The Internet Sacred Text Archive, largest freely available archive of online books about religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric on the Internet
- Islamic Studies Resources, is a UMN Islamic Stduies resource page with links to readings and websites.
- Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia, the first comprehensive source on Jewish women
- Religion Dispatches, a daily online magazine dedicated to the analysis and understanding of religious forces in the world today, highlighting a diversity of progressive voices and aimed at broadening and advancing the public conversation
- Religion Online, full text versions of over 6,000 articles and chapters by religious studies scholars
- Religious Tolerance
- Scholarly Approaches to the Study and Teaching of Religion, a collection of resources to aid scholars and students in undertaking the academic study of religion
- The Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
- Studying Religion, Russell T. McCutcheon’s discussion of how and why to study religion
- Voice of the Shuttle: Religious Studies, an impressive collection of links to a wide variety of resources