Catholicism
Documents and Religious Texts

Augustine on the Net

Bible Browser: search for words, passages, in several different versions of the Bible.

Catholic Documents

Catholic Social Doctrine Online Documents

Church History: an outstanding collection of documents, chronologies, data, and links.

Early Church Online Encyclopedic Documents Page--a meta-index covering several existing document sites, Catholic and Islamic.

Guide to Early Church Documents

The Historical Jesus: Includes text files, documents, links to a papyrus archive, canonical and non-canonical document files, and information on the interpretation of ancient manuscripts, and more.

Summa Theologica complete text.

Vulgate Bible, searchable

www Searchable Bible: (multiple editions available)

Important People in Catholic History

Catholic Saints: FAQ about saints and sainthood, patron saints arranged by their area of specialization, saints' days, etc.

Complete List of Popes

Matrix--a collection of resources for the study of women's religious communities, 500-1500CE. The Monasticon has profiles of over 1100 religious women's communities.

Saints' Biographies

Saints Page: an outstanding collection of texts on the theology of sainthood, saints' biographies, and more.

Sister Site--a place devoted to "the history and contemporary concerns of women religious."

Official Catholic Teachings and Sources

Catholic Encyclopedia: the 1913 edition. Still under construction, but a couple of hundred articles are in place.

Catholic Files at American University

Catholic Information Network: contains the Pope's messages, official church documents, news, prayers, more.

Holy See: Home page of the Vatican.

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General Religion

Bible Browser: search for words, passages, in eight different Bibles, Latin as well as English.

Creeds and Confessions of Various Churches

Dead Sea Scrolls

Easton's Bible Dictionary

VIRTUAL RELIGION INDEX-This site has everything, for all religions: religious texts, libraries, psychology and sociology of religion, ethics and moral values, biblical studies, comparative religion

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Buddhism

Buddhism Links from Gene Thursby's excellent Religious Traditions Page. From here you can get to everything else important.

Buddhist Studies URLs: Substantial Scholarly Buddhist Sources

Hinduism

Encyclopedia of Hinduism

Hinduism Links---from Gene Thursby's excellent Asian Traditions page.

Introduction to Hinduism: an excellent explanation, interspersed with hypertext links to important Hindu texts and other links.

Islam

Islamic Thought: Extensive links to Islamic history, jurisprudence, theology, science, comparative religion, more. Includes a lot of full-text material.

Quran Browser--a tool to search the Quran (Koran) by passage or word part.

Understanding Islam and the Muslims: Has some history, an FAQ file, links to other sites including the Koran in English.

Judaism

Judaism and Jewish Resources: good overall index to news, mailing lists, archaeology, museums, holocaust studies, Israel, the arts, books, more.

A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust--includes a Timeline of anti-Semitism from 1918 on up, and has many links to documents, photos, glossary definitions, and other sites.

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