This is a collection of religion book web sites which I hope will be stickied...I do not have the time right now to look for large collections of these sites as of yet, and thus I will add some. Please feel free to contribute.

Overall
http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Hinduism
http://vedabase.net/en
http://www.srivaishnava.org/scripts/veda/rv/rvtop.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism

Buddhism

Christianity
http://www.ibs.org/niv/index.php
http://www.biblegateway.com/
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/

Scientology
http://www.scientology.org/
http://www.scientologyhandbook.org/
http://www.whatisscientology.org/
http://www.xenu.net/ (Critical of Scientology)
http://www.factnet.org/Scientology/dianetics.html (Critical of Scientology)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology

Judaism
http://www.torah.org/
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsourc...ble/jpstoc.html
http://www.kabbalah.com/kabbalah/
http://www.digital-brilliance.com/kab/faq.htm
http://www.earlyjewishwritings.com/

Islam
http://www.islamicity.com/mosque/quran/

Wicca
Witch's Voice - http://www.witchvox.com/
Witch's League for Public Awareness - http://www.celticcrow.com/

Ancient Greece/Rome
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook (Rome) - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asb...9.html#Religion
Greek - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asb...on%20and%20Myth
Hellenistic World - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asb...8.html#Religion
Roman Mystery Religions - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asb...ery%20Religions

Asatru
The Iriminsul Aetirr - http://www.irminsul.org/
Raven Online - http://www.webcom.com/~lstead/
Asgard - http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Lagoon/7152/
Irmin's Way - http://www.irminsway.org/

Zoroastrianism
http://tenets.zoroastrianism.com/

Shintoism

Native American (North/Central)

Native American (South)

Oceania

Don't we already have something like this in Resources?

I believe it merely contained the first link, which Muztard had titled "This is most certainly NOT porn!"

Which got everyone's attention very well.

Anti-semite

Also feel free to add more categories I have left out.

Updated some.

Anyone out there willing to help?

well i can at least help by pointing out you completely left out the catagory of buddhism

And www.religioustolerance.org offers a decent introduction to most.

For written material, I'd recomend The Religions of Man, by Huston Smith. it covers the major tenants of Hindusim, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. It's reasonably short ("only" 355 pgs), and pretty readable.

Does he have a "The Religions of Cows" book as well?

Yes.

Is there a fundamental difference between our religions, besides perhaps their conviction?

Yes.

If you mean fervent of belif or something similar by "conviction".

All religions as "having the same message" is, to quote one character, "a bunch of hippy crap".

No, I mean between the religons of cows and humans. I suspect them to be far more believing.

Updated again, thanks to Adam.

*waits for this to be stickied*

Perhaps we should have a giant reference link thread?

http://www.ibs.org/niv/index.php

This will let you search the bible for a specific word. Useful for looking for specific references and what not.

1280 hits for Jesus.

God smoked cannibus.

Is Scientology valid?

http://www.scientology.org/
http://www.scientologyhandbook.org/
http://www.whatisscientology.org/
http://www.xenu.net/ (Critical of Scientology)
http://www.factnet.org/Scientology/dianetics.html (Critical of Scientology)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology

Sure, like most other "religions", it's just another institution which desires to control the populace and reduce rational thinking.

This is better than that site, you can search a ton of different versions of the bible.

http://www.biblegateway.com/

Updated, adding Cerian's Christianity link and DEM's Scientology links, and the category of Buddhism (why didn't you tell me I left it out, acow?)

www.buddhanet.com

I haven't looked through it much at all, and appears to come from a relatively liberal buddhist stance from a western perspective. Probably a mahayana practitioner.

IMO in doing so it downplays some of the factionism present in buddhism, and tries to gloss over the rough bits, such as the conservatism of theravada, beliefs of lay people in the buddhist world such as veneration of relics, and some of the more radical and modern japanese strains, and the trendiness of tantra and celebrity status of the dalai llama.

(these might be covered, but as i said i haven't really looked too deeply)

My christianty link was accidentally set on the NIV, not in general. Although i'm sure its not too difficult to navigate to another one.

*abuses power*

The Catholic Encyclopedia is pretty good. Could go in Christianity or overall, it has alot of info about other religions in there as well.

Updated.

What, no Catholic Encyclopedia?

A word of warning on the Catholic Encyclopedia (and frankly something that should be mentioned with the other links as well), is that its far from neutral point of view.

It also seems to contain some factual inacuracies:

ie. In Buddhism:



From the top of my head, although Amitabha is the buddha of the sukhavati(and one of the more "my fucking god, what were they thinking" schools of buddhism), the Dalai Lama is held to be a reincarnation of Avoloketeshera(sp ), the bodhisattva of compassion.

None the less the dearth of the information contained is rather impressive.

What are you smoking?

This is a Religious Studies Links thread is it not? Catholicism is a Religion is it not?

check the links...

Bah, it wasn't there when I posted that.

http://www.buddhanet.net/
http://www.dharmanet.org/infowebt.html


Merci!