Religion Internet Resources

Tom Green, Associate Director of Libraries and Head of Public Services, is the librarian liaison to the Religion Department.

Organizations & Associations

• American Academy of Religion is a learned society and professional association dedicated to promoting the academic study of religion in all its dimenstions.
• The United Methodist Church is a comprehensive site for information about the United Methodist Church.

Indexes & General Resources

• American Religion Data Archive, supported by the Lilly Foundation and located at the Department of Sociology, the Pennsylvania State University, acts to preserve quantitative data on American religion, to improve access to this data, to increase the use of the data, and to allow comparisons across data files.
• Finding God in Cyberspace, assembled by John Gresham, Kenrick-Glennon Seminary, is a selective, but content-rich clearinghouse of religious studies resources.
• Papal Encyclicals Online provides papal encyclicals and other Catholic Church documents such as apostolic letters, apostolic constitutions, apostolic exhortations, and other Papal communications from 1226 to the present.
• Religion-Online is moderated by William F. Fore, Claremont School of Theology. It has 5,200 chapters, monographs, speeches and articles exploring religious issues.
• Religious Worlds , compiled by Gene R. Thurby, University of Florida, provides information and links for the study and interpretation of religions.
• The Vatican site is the authoritative source for encyclicals.
• Virtual Religion Index designed by Mahon H. Smith, Rutgers, is a guide to religion that features a selective mix of links to home pages, indexes, and documents.
• Voice of the Shuttle: Religious Studies maintained by Alan Liu, a professor of English at the University of California at Santa Barbara, is an excellent index of web-based religious studies resources.
• Wabash Center: Guide to Internet Resources for Teaching & Learning in Theology & Religion, created by librarian Charles Bellinger, organized by subject and material type aimed at those teaching or studying religion and theology.

Electronic journals

• Internet Journal of Religion is a multiple journal site dedicated to the academic study of religion. It includes DISKUS -- a journal which has previously been circulated on disk; Marburg Journal of Religion, possibly the first journal devoted to the study of religion to be published solely on the internet; and Science of Religion, a hardcopy bibliographical journal offering selected information in the new medium.
• Journal of Religion and Society, from the Center for the Study of Religion and Society, Creighton University, is an electronic journal to promote the study of all religious groups and beliefs among the various peoples of the world, past and present.
• Journal of Religious Ethics, located at Florida State University, offers articles from the current issue and keyword and browsing the abstracts of past articles. This title provides serious ethical reflection set in the context of specific religious traditions and communities.
• JSTOR (available to those affliated with OWU) provides complete backfiles to core religion journals.
• Review of Biblical Literature, from the Society of Biblical Literature, offers access to scholarly reviews for books on biblical studies and related topics.

This resource guide prepared by Tom Green, Associate Director of Libraries and Head of Public Services, using excerpts from CHOICE reviews, Religion Internet resources listed on The Chronicle of Higher Education site.