School of Theology and Christian Ministries: Websites for SOTCM

Supreme Court rulings regarding religion, from 1815 through the present day

Search over 500 Open Access (free) Theological and Religious journals for articles

Open Access Digital content, including over 100,000 ebooks and thousands of journals, in religious studies and related disciplines from publisher websites, institutional repositories, and stable public domain collections.

Classic Christian Writings sponsored by Calvin College.

(1) summarizes current religion research by Hartford Institute for Religion Research faculty as well as the research done by other sociologists of religion.
(2) educates pastors, denominational leaders, religion reporters and the general public in a better understanding of research on religion in order to help create stronger communities of faith and a more informed society.
(3) assists the site's users in understanding the use of statistics and poll data, designing church web sites, on searching the web for information, and the implications of the Internet on religious life.

"A comprehensive set of data about development in countries around the globe."

The ARDA is an essential access point to quantitative data sets on religion. The site aggregates data from a wide variety of sources, covering all subjects, from congregational statistics to religious profiles for countries worldwide. Users can view reports, maps, and charts, or download raw data files for analysis with statistical software. While some international data sets are available, the greatest strength of the ARDA is its collections of data on religion in the United States. "The ARDA allows you to interactively explore the highest quality data on American and international religion using online features for generating national profiles, GIS maps, church membership overviews, denominational heritage trees, tables, charts, and other reports. Over 450 surveys and other data collections are available for online preview and virtually all can be downloaded free of charge."

From crosswalk.com. Bibles, concordances (including Strong's), commentaries, encyclopedias, lexicons (Brown-Driver-Briggs and Thayer's), sermon helps, and more.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Listing of Popes with links to full biographies of each.

Greek manuscript of the Christian Bible, including the oldest complete copy of the New Testament; heavily corrected text is of outstanding importance for the history of the Bible

The Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative of the ATLA and ATS is a repository of digital resources contributed by member libraries...The CDRI database provides access to digital images of woodcuts, photographs, slides, papyri, coins, maps, postcards, manuscripts, lithographs, sermons, shape-note tune books, and various forms of Christian art, architecture, and iconography.

The Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature. Includes bibliography, cave tour, symposia.

Text of most of the Ebla tablets in the Eblaite language. Some English translations are available in the book: Old Testament Parallels. Ref BS1180 .M42 2006, pages 258-262.

From AcademicInfo.net, Includes Gnostic Studies Library, Encyclopedia Coptica, Gnosis Archive, Gospel of Thomas homepage, Noncanonical homepage, and more.

From the U.S. State Department, "The International Religious Freedom report is submitted to Congress annually by the Department of State in compliance with Section 102(b) of the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) of 1998. This report supplements the most recent Human Rights Reports by providing additional detailed information with respect to matters involving international religious freedom. It includes individual country chapters on the status of religious freedom worldwide."

Guide to understanding the origins, history, and beliefs of the world's religions.

"More than 6,000 articles and chapters. Topics include Old and New Testament, Theology, Ethics, History and Sociology of Religion, Communication and Cultural Studies, Pastoral Care, Counseling, Homiletics, Worship, Missions and Religious Education."

Founded by the Society of Biblical Literature, presents reviews of books in biblical studies and related fields.

Lectionary, Scripture Study and Worship Links and Resources. Find an ancient or reference commentator by using the Scripture Index.

The Wesleyan-Holiness Digital Library is a free, multidisciplinary, open access, digital resource of books, literature, multimedia material, initiated by the Church of the Nazarene in response to the global need for access to resources for education, lifelong learning, and specifically ministerial preparation.