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Web LinksRutgers University Virtual Religion Index
http://religion.rutgers.edu/vri/
The Department of Religion at Rutgers University has provided a useful list of major religious traditions. Click on any of them and you are taken to other web sites where you can explore questions about a variety of religions in greater detail.General Information on Religions
http://www.academicinfo.net/religindex.html
This site provides a wealth of links to all sorts of information about specific religions. All you have to do is select a major religion and then you are provided to many potential web sites about that religion as well as links to the many different sects within that major religion.Places of Peace and Power
http://www.sacredsites.com/
Quote: "Martin Gray is an anthropologist and photographer specializing in the study of sacred sites and pilgrimage traditions around the world. Traveling as a pilgrim, Martin spent twenty years, visiting and photographing over 1000 sacred sites in eighty countries." Martin Gray's amazing photographs of the sacred sites of the world include many archaeological sites.History of Christianity
http://www.history-of-christianity.com/
This is a website that provides the reader with a series of articles that review the history of Christianity.Religious Tolerance
http://www.religioustolerance.org/
A website with information about many, many different religions around the world.Ohio University Adventures in Mythology
http://www.ohiou.edu/esl/elective/Mythology/
A website with extensive links to various aspects of mythology, creation stories, and religious beliefs in cultures around the world.Minnesota State University at Mankato, emuseum Religion
http://www.mankato.msus.edu/emuseum/cultural/religion/
Information about Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Animism, Christianity, and Hinduism.World of Traditional Zoroastrianism
http://www.zoroastrianism.com/
A website devoted to one of the world's oldest religions.Church and School of Wicca
http://www.wicca.org/
Wicca is a nature-based religion, based on old European beliefs, and popularized in the US beginning in the 1960s.Unitarian Universalism
http://www.uua.org/
The main website of the US Unitarian Universalism religion. The religion of one of the authors (KAD). Quote: "At a Unitarian Universalist worship service or meeting, you are likely to find members whose positions on faith may be derived from a variety of religious beliefs: Jewish, Christian, Buddhist, naturist, atheist, or agnostic. Members might tell you that they are religious humanists, liberal Christians, or world religionists. All these people, and others who label their beliefs still differently, are faithful Unitarian Universalists committed to the practice of free religion. We worship, sing, play, study, teach, and work for social justice together as congregations-all the while remaining strong in our individual convictions."Jediism: The Jedi Religion
http://www.jediism.org/
A website devoted to a religion that follows some of the principles of the Jedi Knights from "Star Wars" fame. This is a serious religion, and a serious website, not a joke.Luke Eric Lassiter's website
http://www.bsu.edu/csh/anthro/lassiter/index.htm
Dr. Lassiter's website has lots of information about his research among the Kiowa and Native American Christianity, as well as his other research interests and projects.The Amish
http://www.amish.net/lifestyle.asp
A website devoted to explaining the Amish to the outside world.Cargo Cults
http://anth.ucalgary.ca/DHatt/Anth473/Cargo.htm
A website from the Anthropology Department at the University of Calgary (Canada) with lots of information and photographs about Cargo Cults.Imaging and Imagining the Ghost Dance: James Mooney's Illustrations and Photographs, 1891-1893
http://php.indiana.edu/~tkavanag/visual5.html
A web essay by Thomas W. Kavanagh, Curator of Collections, William Hammond Mathers Museum, Indiana University. Quote: "Of all the incidents in recent American Indian history, the Ghost Dance of 1890 is probably without equal in evocative power. From the ecstatic dancing, the mysteriously patterned clothing, to the bloody snows of Wounded Knee, the Ghost Dance is pervaded with visually powerful images. But because they are so powerful, those images must be constantly examined; one must see as well as look." |
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