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://courses.dl.kent.edu/21020/default.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
Global Dialogue Institute
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
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.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
http://www.buddhasvillage.com/
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
Yale Divinity School has a very thorough site.
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
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
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
A new presentation of God, the universe, planetary history, and the life and
teachings of Jesus
http://www.urantia.org/
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
http://www.acim.org/
The Cleveland Museum of Art
http://www.clemusart.com
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