Web sites to consider

Web sites to consider

To know a tradition, it is best to get to know people who have grown up in or adopted it. Knowing its history is important, for most of us are unaware of the histories that we propel by our thoughts, words, and deeds. Knowing a tradition's arts is important because most of us cannot well express our insights and imagination and feelings and creativity.

In searching the web remember to consider what individual or organization developed the site, what point of view is being expressed, what maturity of attitude you find, how well the proposed facts, meanings, and values cohere with what you have already discovered. And do not forget the library! One of the dangers of the internet culture is impatient superficiality. "Surfing" the web does not insure any lasting acquisition.

This site was developed, in part, via http://www.searchEdu.com/

I include our course site, in case you want to copy this page.

http://fp.dl.kent.edu/jwattles/default.htm

Updates to this website are here: http://www.personal.kent.edu/~jwattles/CompRel1.htm
The Education as Transformation Project promotes religious diversity in campus life and spirituality in higher education.

http://www.wellesley.edu/RelLife/transformation/

In a similar vein: http://csf.colorado.edu/sine/faculty.html

The Self Knowledge Symposium promotes students' adventures in spiritual discovery. Their publication, The Symposium, is free to students. See our article in the December 2000 issue.

http://www.selfknowledge.org/home/index.htm

Dialogue

http://astro.temple.edu/~dialogue/

In March, 2000, our course co-hosted a choir from Sarajevo, Bosnia. Christians, Jews, and Muslims--nearly half in the National Opera--sang each others' religious music and answered questions from the audience. Their work goes beyond dialogue. Interreligious Service Face to Face

http://progressive-bih.com/ociuoci/

Religion and world religions generally

Ingrid Shafer's page on dialogue and renewal in the world's religions

http://www.usao.edu/~facshaferi/#2

The American Academy of Religion

http://www.aarweb.org/

Canadian Society for the Study of Religion

http://www.ccsr.ca/cssr/links.html

Harvard's Pluralism Project

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~pluralsm/

A guide to internet sites on religion

http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/Internet/front.htm

From Michel Desjardins of Wilfrid Laurier University

http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwrandc/internet_links.html

The University of Toronto has a fine Center for the Study of Religion. One of its many features is an exposition of a particularly rigorous method for the scientific study of religion.

http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/religion/

Bruce Alton, formerly of the University of Toronto, has a site that covers method and theory in the study of religion.

http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~bsalton/

A scholar from the Unification Church has created a site on scriptures of the world.

http://www.unification.net/ws/

Hinduism

Global Dialogue Institute

http://www.iskcon.org/hkindex/

One of the foremost religious thinkers of modern India was Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950).

http://www.motherservice.org/

One of the most progressive movements of spiritual, social, and economic regeneration in the world today is centered in India: Swadhyaya.

http://www.swadhyaya.org/

Buddhism

Buddhism and other East Asian traditions

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/eastasia/eastasiasbook.html#Religious Traditions

A few Thich Nhat Hanh sites

http://www.plumvillage.org/

http://www.seaox.com/thich.html

http://users.erols.com/childers/mgl/precept.html

A Tibetan Buddhism site

http://www.buddhasvillage.com/

http://www.buddhanet.net

Judaism

From Paul Halsall at Fordham University:

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/jewish/jewishsbook.html

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin

http://menic.utexas.edu/menic/countries/israel.html

Christianity

The International Society for Krishna Consciousness represents an interpretion of the Bhagavad-Gita from the perspective of bhakti yoga, the wholehearted devotion to God as personal. The personality of God includes the transcendent aspect of Deity ("Godhead").

http://www.library.yale.edu/div/electext.htm

Early in our course, we consider a simple method of promoting inner spiritual experience: contemplative prayer.

http://www.contemplativeoutreach.org/

Here is a site on early Christian writings and their social world.

http://www.hivolda.no/asf/kkf/rel-stud.html

A popular site:

http://www.ntgateway.com/

Islam

From Dr. Godlas at the University of Georgia:

http://www.arches.uga.edu/~godlas/home.html

The Foundation for Islam and Dialogue

http://www.xs4all.nl/~siend/english/index.html

http://www.mosque.com

Science and Religion

For statistics about religions,

http://www.adherents.com/index_adherents.html

On science and religion issues, the best place on the web to begin is with The Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences.

http://www.ctns.org/

The Chicago Center for Religion and Science is headed by Phil Hefner, the editor of Zygon, the premier journal dedicated to this emerging interdiscipline.

http://www.usao.edu/~facshaferi/CCRS.HTML

Nick Saunders, a Ph.D. student at Cambridge, has a fine site of theology and science links.

http://www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~nts1001/links.html

Philosophy and Religion

A site for Christian philosophy

http://www.faithquest.com/philosiphers/index.html

[yes, they did misspell "philosophers," but the site looks fine.]

Miscellaneous

Yale Divinity School has a very thorough site.

http://www.urantia.org/

On Taoism

http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/taoism//

Native American Religion in Early America

http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080/tserve/eighteen/ekeyinfo/natrel.htm

Homepages of Native American nations

http://www.nativeculture.com/lisamitten/nations.html

The Course in Miracles

http://www.acim.org/

A new presentation of God, the universe, planetary history, and the life and teachings of Jesus

http://www.clemusart.com

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