Religious Studies: Religions in America

Center for Religion and Democracy

Eletronic Text Center

• University of Virigina's Scholar Lab; Contains publically accessible important texts: Religious Resources

Encyclopedia of American Studies

Encyclopedia Mythica

• An encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and legend. Covers a variety of cultures and time periods.

Gale Reference Library

• Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
• Melton's Encyclopedia of American Religions
• Encyclopedia of Religion
• American Decades Primary Sources
• Social Trends and Indicators USA
• American Eras
• New Catholic Encyclopedia
• Witchcraft in America
• Contemporary American Religion

The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, & Abolition

Making of America

• At University of Michigan
• At Cornell University

Literati (Credo Reference) Library

• Encyclopedia of American Studies
  
• Critical Terms for Religious Studies
  
• Religious Holidays & Calendars
  

Mormons in Transition

• Sponsored by the Institute for Religious Research, this page provides criticism on different aspects of the Church of Latter Day Saints.

New Testament Gateway

• Directory of internet resources of possible interest to New Testament scholars.
  

Oxford Online Reference  

• The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature
• The Oxford Companion to US History
  
• The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
  
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
  

• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church

Religion Gateway

• Annotated guide to religion resources on the Internet.

Theory and Method of American Cultural Studies

United States Department of Justice Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Reading Rooms

• This site includes copies of documents frequently requested from the Department of Justice and its subsidiary agencies (including the FBI) under the Freedom of Information Act. There is also a collection of links to the FOIA Reading Rooms of other Federal departments and agencies.

University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections

• This site showcases some of the print, photograph and textual collections held in the University of Washington Libraries and in UW academic departments, as well as some found in the collections of their partner libraries, museums and historical societies. Current collections include an extensive collection of images and texts on American Indians of the Pacific Northwest; the "Digital Northwest" image collections; several biological and environmental image collections, and a database of architecture and city views from around the world.

Valley of the Shadow Project

• The Valley of the Shadow Project takes two communities, one Northern and one Southern, through the experience of the American Civil War. The project is a hypermedia archive of thousands of sources for the period before, during, and after the Civil War for Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Those sources include newspapers, letters, diaries, photographs, maps, church records, population census, agricultural census, and military records. Students can explore every dimension of the conflict and write their own histories, reconstructing the life stories of women, African Americans, farmers, politicians, soldiers, and families. Also included is a GIS Atlas of the areas covered.

Wilfred Owen Multimedia Digital Archive (WOMDA)

• The Wilfred Owen Multimedia Digital Archive contains a host of material relating to the First World War poet Wilfred Owen, in particular, and a large amount of related background material on the War in general . Contents include high quality digital images of his manuscripts and letters, copies of photographs, audio interviews with WWI veterans, video clips from official British Army films of the war and other miscellany.

Virtual Religion Index

• Rutgers University offers one of the best gateway sites for Religious Studies.

Please continue your search in the online catalog.

These call numbers should help you browse the shelves.

200 Religion
220 Bible
230 Christianity & Christian theology
240 Christian moral & devotional theology
250 Christian orders & local church
264 Public worship
270 History of Christianity & Christian church
272 Persecutions in church history
273 Doctrinal controversies & heresies
277 History of Christianity in North America
280 Christian denominations & sects
281 Early church & Eastern churches
282 Roman Catholic Church
283 Anglican churches
284 Protestants of Continental origin
285 Presbyterian, Reformed & Congregational
286 Baptist, Disciples of Christ & Adventist
287 Methodist & related churches
289 Other denominations & sects
290 Other religions
292 Greek & Roman religion
293 Germanic religion
294 Religions of Indic origin
295 Zoroastrianism
296 Judaism
297 Islam, Babism & Bahai Faith
299 Religions not provided for elsewhere
900 History & geography

Adherents.com

• A collection of religious adherent statistics and religious geography citations. Contains references to published membership/adherent statistics and congregation statistics for over 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, ultimate concerns, etc.

African-American Newspapers: The 19th Century

Currently contains Freedom's Journal (1827-1829), The Colored American (1837-1841), The North Star (1847-51) The National EraProvincial Freeman (1854-1857), Frederick Douglass Paper (1851-1855, eventually to 1859) and The Christian Recorder (1847-1860), (1861-1870, eventually to 1902).

All-in-one Biblical Resources Search

• Engine which searches the full text of several versions (in several languages) of the Judeo-Christian Bible.

American Decades Primary Sources

The American Religion Data Archive

• A database of quanitative data on American religions including churches and church membership, religious professionals, and religious groups.

AmericanSouth.org

• Southern history and culture. Not to be confused with Documenting the American South, see below.

Documenting the American South

• Provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture including slave narratives, first-person narratives,Southern literature, Confederate imprints, materials related to the church in the black community, and North Caroliniana.

Lincoln/Net: Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project

• Presents historical materials from Abraham Lincoln's Illinois years (1830-1861), including Lincoln's writings and speeches, as well as other materials illuminating antebellum Illinois.
  
• Lincoln/Net offers comprehensive interpretive materials including discussions of eight historical themes and an online Lincoln biography.

Perseus Project

• Tufts University's digital library project, containing materials related to: Greece & Rome, Renaissance, 19th century America and more. Access to Greek and Latin lexica.

Restoration Movement

• Contains primary and secondary source material for researching the Restoration Movement (out of which came the Churches of Christ, the Christian Churches, and the Disciples of Christ).

Salem Witch Trials: Documentary Archive and Transcription Project

• Collection of primary source materials, including court records, contemporary books, maps, images, and literary works, relating to the Salem witch trials of 1692.
  

Shaker Manuscripts Online

• Links to various Shaker manuscripts.

United States Historical Census Browser

• Data for each state and county from 1790 to 1970. 
• For other sources of census data see the InfoSurf US Federal documents page.