Religious Studies, Web Resources

General Resources

American Academy of Religion (AAR) The major learned society and professional association for scholars whose object of study is religion.
Society of Biblical Literature (SBL)
Southwest Commission on Religious Studies. The Commission serves as the umbrella organization for the regional American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature, Association for the Scientific Study of Religion, and American Schools of Oriental Research and presents the spring regional conference in Dallas.
The Council of Societies for the Study of Religion, a federation of learned societies in religion interested in developing greater coordination of the field as a whole.

The International Association for the History of Religions, promotes the academic study of religions through the international collaboration of all scholars whose research has a bearing on the subject.

Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses
Religion provides a regular survey of current work in major and specific areas of enquiry. Its swift reviewing and crossing of traditional frontiers to encompass such related studies as psychology and archaeology combine to make it a valued point of reference for a growing readership.
Internet Journal of Religion, incorporating DISKUS, Marburg Journal of Religion, Science of Religion, The Journal of Southern Religion and Journal of Buddhist Ethics
Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory is devoted to both disciplinary and interdisciplinary scholarship of a cutting-edge nature that deals broadly with the phenomenon of religion and cultural theory.
See all the electronic journals available through the Rice University Library.

Orisha List Home Page, the Internet's oldest forum for priests, devotees and students of Traditional African Religions.
OrishaNet, dedicated to being an accurate source of information on Le Regla Lucumi for those learning the religion and other interested parties.
Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye. Home of the first Santeria/Lukumi church recognized in the United States. CLBA was the defendent in June1993 unanimous Supreme Court ruling against the City of Hialeah.
Oyotunji Village. The Kingdom of Oyotunji African Village, founded in 1970 by His Royal Highness Oseijeman Adefunmi I and his followers is the only traditional African Village in the United States.
Faces of the Gods Exhibit, Art and Altars of Africa and the African Americas.

Buddhist Organizations in Houston and the surrounding area
University of Virginia's New Media Center has created an interactive database for all graduate students working in Tibetan Studies in any discipline and in any region of the world. It allows students to enter analytical information about themselves, as well as a fuller description of their research interests.
Bonpo Text Project at Rice University. A growing body of catalogue information for the study of early Bon texts currently being developed by Greg Hillis.
The Samantabhadra Project at U.Va., which currently focuses on cataloguing and comparing the 7 editions of the early Nyingma Tantras.
Colloquial Tibetan: An interactive web site adapted from: William A. Magee and Elizabeth Napper; Jeffrey Hopkins, general editor. Fluent Tibetan: A Proficiency Oriented Learning System. Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications, 1993.
Chanting: Multimedia exploration of the practice of chanting in Tibetan Buddhism.
Articles on Tibetan Art
- Asian Arts on-line journal
- Images and Information on Tibetan Art
- Shelley and Donald Rubin Collection

Nurelweb provides sources for the study of cults, sects, new and historic religions, churches and denominations. This web site is dedicated to providing reliable information on complex and controversial topics from a scholarly perspective. Here you can find information about the definition of cult, sect, religion, new religious movements, myth, ritual, and a host of other issues.
CESNUR, Center for the Studies of New Religions
Heaven's Gate Home Page
Watchman - Listing of cult and cult-like organizations.
Introduction to New Age Religions and Alternative Religions from About.com

Heterological History: A Conversation, Edith Wyschogrod & Carl Raschke. In The Ethics of Remembering Edith Wyschogrod applies the familiar postmodernist concept of "heterology"--the study of Otherness or "alterity"--to the philosophy of history. The following conversation with the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory Senior Editor Carl Raschke explores the notion of "heterological history," as Wyschogrod delineates it, in relationship to a variety of contemporary philosophical and theological themes.
Levinas - English Bibliography: Primary and Secondary Literature compiled by Peter Atterton (Department of Philosophy, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA92182-8142), and Robin Prior (MALAS Program, San Diego State University).