The mission is to help people find and walk a spiritual path that will bring comfort, hope, clarity, strength, and happiness. Whether you're exploring your own faith or other spiritual traditions, they provide you devotional tools, access to the best spiritual teachers and clergy in the world, thought-provoking commentary, and a supportive community. Blogs and quizzes (like answering 20 questions about your concept of God, the afterlife, human nature, and more) to tell you what religion (if any) you practice...or ought to consider practicing. (
http://beliefnet.com/
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Provides access to recent news stories about the relationship between religion and violence worldwide. It includes sections for Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and religious violence, conflict and war. The site also provides a listing of forthcoming conferences and an extensive directory of links to other websites covering the issues. (
http://conflict-religion.boker.tv
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Quality links to environmentalism and religion/spirituality—ecospirituality, with annotations to such sites as http://www.religionandnature.com; http://earthministry.org; and more. Online searches on environmentalism and religion will also yield many sites very opposed to ecospirituality and envirnonmentalism as a religious movement. (
http://real.geog.ucsb.edu/research/esr/links.html
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Eclectic spirituality, multifaith, that facilitates community interaction by providing a set of practices and tools for cultivating gratefulness. Features Brother David Stendal-Rast, Ph.D. and senior Benedictine monk, recipient of the Martin Buber Award for his achievements in building bridges between religious traditions. (
http://www.gratefulness.org/
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Excellent source of links relating to inter-religious dialog, teaching resources, extensive weblinks, e-journals, and e-texts of speeches, lectures and articles. (
http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/Internet/dialogue.htm
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The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life is a project of the Pew Research Center. It seeks to understand the intersection between religion, public policy and politics. Key topics of concern include: the role of religion in contemporary American politics and government policy, bioethics, religion and gay marriage, the role of religion in schooling and the death penalty. Also offered are some materials on Muslims/Islam and politics. The web site provides information on the aims of the forum and its current research. It includes access to press releases, transcripts of discussion events plus full text reports and opinion poll surveys. (
http://pewforum.org
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This site offers information on Rastaology and the Ethiopian National Front; read chants, psalms, and the mission statement. (
http://members.tripod.com/~rastaology/
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Explores how science and religion can work together to address the vital issues of our time in a way that is accessible and relevant to everyday living. Looking at life's complexities through the lenses of both science and religion offers insight neither discipline provides alone. (
http://www.science-spirit.org/
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Excellent source of links relating to women and religion, teaching resources, weblinks, e-journals, and e-texts. (
http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/Internet/women.htm
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