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  1. Diversity in Religion in the the USA (TeacherServe - Beckman)

  2. Religion - Research Sources (McFarlin Library)

  3. Religions of the World (Comparative Religion Project)

  4. Harmony Across Religions (United Religions Initiative)
      Provides background information from leaders of major religious groups. 10-01

  5. Harmony - Guidelines for Understanding Other Religions (Keating)
      Provides the results of a retreat in Snowmass Colorado in which teachers of different faiths spoke of their own truths. They came to "meditate together in silence and to share our personal spiritual journeys, especially those elements in our respective traditions that have proved most helpful to us along the way." One unplanned result was a list of beliefs that were held across all of the faiths.

  6. Harmony - Guidelines for Understanding Other Religions (Braybrooke)
      "The hope of the interfaith movement is that religious differences can be enriching and that each religious tradition will make its distinctive contribution to the welfare of humankind. Sadly, religious differences have often been a cause of conflict."

  7. Iran - Culture and Religion (LonelyPlanet.com)
      Provides a short description of the culture and Muslim religion of Iran. 9-01

  8. Religions

  9. Hindu Religion

  10. Bon Religion (TibetanBon.com)
      Describes Tibet's ancient religion and provides biographical information about current teachers. Bon came before Buddhism. 9-02

  11. Religions of the World (MillenniumPeaceSummit.org)
      Describes twelve of the major religions of the world to promote tolerance and world peace. Provided through the World Council of Religious Leaders. 4-03

  12. Religion in the United States (NOW with Bill Moyers)
      Provides statistics on religious affiliation in the United States. 12-03

  13. Editorial - Bush and Religion (MSNBC News - Johnson)
      Johnson describes President Bush's distinctive approach to gaining votes from religious conservatives.

      "Americans have heard the president speak of God and the nation’s destiny many times. But they have rarely heard him speak of his own faith in specific terms. In fact, Bush appears never to have said publicly that he is an evangelical. While he has dropped many clues, they do not constitute a definitive statement of his faith."

      "The ambiguity offers advantages and disadvantages, never more so than in the current campaign, when the president's strategists have made conservative white evangelical voters — 4 million of whom they believe failed to go to the polls in 2000 — their No. 1 target."

      "Working with Kevin Coe, David S. Domke of the University of Washington analyzed inaugural and State of the Union messages by every president since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933. Historically, they found, presidents have spoken of God from the position of a petitioner, asking for His guidance or blessing, with two exceptions: Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. Their message comes from a prophetic stance, as though describing God’s intentions from a position of knowledge." 9-04

  14. Religion Selector (Speakout.com)
      Complete the survey on basic beliefs to see how your own beliefs match the teachings of 26 different religions. 10-04

  15. -11-03-04 Poll: Voters Divided Over Religion (BBC News)
      "Religion - rather than class, ethnic origin or education - has become the key determinant of voting in the 2004 presidential race, according to an exit poll conducted by the Associated Press news agency."

      "And moral issues were more important for voters than Iraq, the war on terrorism, or the economy."

      "According to the exit poll, 22% of the electorate said 'moral values' was the issue that mattered most in how they voted - compared to 20% who cited the economy, 19% who cited terrorism, and just 15% who said Iraq was the key issue." 11-04

  16. -11-04-04 Should Democrats Get Religion? (CBS News)
      "The Democratic Party's sharp defeat in the 2004 election has already produced a round of soul searching."

      "The GOP recaptured the White House and strengthened its hold on Congress with powerful support from churchgoers."

      "No section of the nation received Mr. Bush's values-laden message more enthusiastically than the Old Confederacy. The election virtually completed the ongoing transformation of the South from a Democratic bastion to a GOP stronghold. Five Southern Senate seats previously held by Democrats fell to the Republicans." 11-04

  17. Religion and Politics

  18. Politics, Religion, and the State (CrossCurrents.org)
      Provides cross-cultural observations on how religion, politics, and the state interact in a variety of countries.

      "Few will be surprised to learn that campaigning politicians everywhere tend to invoke local religious themes and symbols as sources of legitimacy and what Demerath and Rhys Williams have called 'cultural power' (1992). What may be more surprising is the frequent tendency for governmental regimes and their officials to try to keep religion at arm's length. While religion is often an ally in the pursuit of power, once power has been secured, religion can become an unwelcome constraint in the quite different processes of state administration."

      "Demerath developed this point in an earlier article (1991), arguing that, while few countries have the kind of formal, legal 'separation of church and state' that characterizes the U.S., an informal de facto separation is almost a commonplace. The most conspicuous exceptions here are not 'religious states' but rather 'state religions' in which the government seeks to control religion. Strangely enough, this often involves state support for religion in an effort to coopt and nullify it as an independent power-base." 11-04

  19. Denominations in the United States (Hartford Institute for Religion Research)
      "Several of the organizations and religious groups listed on this page either do not envision themselves as denominations or are loose associations of congregations; therefore, the web site listed might not be an official denominational site nor represent an "official" perspective of a national religious entity.” 11-04

  20. -03-23-05 Link Found Between Religion and Genes (ABC News)
      "Recent studies with twins show that while environmental factors play a big part in determining a person's degree of faith early in life, later on genetics take over and become a dominant factor as people make the transition into adulthood and either strengthen or reduce the role of religion in their lives." 2-05

  21. Expert: Suicide Bombers Not Motivated Primarily by Religion (MSNBC News)
      Tucker Carlson: "I should also say you’ve compiled the world’s largest database on suicide terrorism. You studied every suicide bombing in the world since about 1980, so you’re a good guy to ask, obviously, the guy to ask. You make the point, if I understand it correctly, that, most of the time, suicide bombing is a response to foreign occupation, you say, not a product of religious extremism."

      Robert Pape: "Yes. Over 95 percent of all suicide terrorist attacks around the world since 1980 have in common not religion, but a clear strategic purpose, to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland or prize greatly." 7-05

  22. Major Religions of the World Ranked by Number of Adherents (Adherents.com)
      "Sizes shown are approximate estimates, and are here mainly for the purpose of ordering the groups, not providing a definitive number." Approximately a third (33%) are Christians, a fifth (21%) are Muslims, a sixth (16%) are nonreligious, a sixth (14%) are Hindu, a twentieth are Buddhist, and one fifth of one percent are Jewish. In other words, over 50% of the people on earth consider themselves either Christians or Muslims and 30% consider themselves either Hindu or nonreligious. 12-05

  23. History of Christianity (ReligionFacts.com)
      "Christian history begins with Jesus of Nazareth, a Jew who was born in a small corner of the Roman Empire. Little is known of his early life, but around the age of 30, Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist and had a vision in which he received the blessing of God. After this event, he began a ministry of teaching, healing, and miracle-working." 06-06

  24. Finding My Religion - Bill Moyers (SFGate.com)
      "Can religion and reason peacefully coexist? From a scan of the headlines it doesn't seem so. The world appears polarized, incapable of even agreeing to disagree on matters of faith."

      "Journalist Bill Moyers believes that conversation can lead to a cure for what ails us -- but not conversation in which people simply shriek at each other." 06-06

  25. Religion and Politics (Christian Science Monitor)
      "America, despite its signature wall of separation between church-state, is also a place where religion and politics are often deeply entwined - a phenomenon rarely more in evidence than in the current election cycle." (June 25, 2004) 06-06

  26. Religion, Science, and Atheism (MSNBC News)
      "A gathering of scientists and atheists explores whether faith in science can ever substitute for belief in God." 11-06

  27. Minoan Religion (WSU.edu)
      "Since we have only ruins and remains from Minoan culture, we can only guess at their religious practices. We have no scriptures, no prayers, no books of ritual; all we have are objects and fragments all of which only hint at a rich and complex religious life and symbolic system behind their broken exteriors. The most apparent characteristic of Minoan religion was that it was polytheistic and matriarchal, that is, a goddess religion; the gods were all female, not a single male god has been identified until later periods. Many religious and cultural scholars now believe that almost all religions began as matriarchal religions, even the Hebrew religion (where Yahweh is frequently referred to as physically female), but adopted patriarchal models in later incarnations." 12-06

  28. 12-24-06 Lawyer: Saudi Morals Police Use Religion to Oppress (MSNBC News)
      "Saudi human rights lawyer Abdul-Rahman al-Lahem said he had been waiting years for a case like this: A woman and her daughter, both accused of promiscuity, were followed by the morals police as they left a private residence on the outskirts of the capital."

      "The police assumed that the women had been visiting male friends. But the two had been at the home of female relatives. And unlike the thousands who had previously been intimidated into dropping their grievances, they insisted on taking their kidnappers to court."

      "Lahem, a 35-year-old father of two, contends that the police oppress people in the name of religion and act as if the rules don't apply to them. He wants to prove them wrong." 12-06

  29. Freedom From Religion Foundation (Wikipedia.org)
      "The Freedom From Religion Foundation is an American Freethought organization based in Madison, Wisconsin. Its purposes, as stated in its bylaws, are to promote the constitutional principle of separation of church and state, and to educate the public on matters relating to nontheism." 01-07

  30. Atheism, Religion, and Morality (Wikipedia.org)
      "However, throughout its history, atheism has commonly been equated with immorality, based on the belief that morality is directly derived from God, and thus cannot be intelligibly attained without appealing to God.[85][86] Moral precepts such as 'murder is wrong' are seen as divine laws, requiring a divine lawmaker and judge. However, many atheists argue that treating morality legalistically involves a false analogy, and that morality does not depend upon a lawmaker in the same way that laws do,[87] based on the Euthyphro dilemma, which either renders God unnecessary or morality arbitrary.[88] Atheists also assert that behaving ethically only because of divine mandate is not true ethical behavior, merely blind obedience.[89]

      "Many atheists, in fact, have argued that atheism is a superior basis for ethics than theism."

      "Atheists such as Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris have argued that Western religions' reliance on divine authority lends itself to authoritarianism and dogmatism.[91]" 01-07

  31. Court Cases on Religion (Time Magazine)
      "The never-ending march of court cases about church and state sometimes seems so rapid that they blur together. But Peter Irons, a longtime professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego, and a member of the Supreme Court bar, has slowed down time to take in-depth looks at several highly symbolic disputes in his new book God on Trial: Dispatches from America's Religious Battlefields (Viking $26.95)." 05-07

  32. Separation of Church and State (Freedom From Religion Foundation)
      "Our national association of nontheists has been working since 1978 to promote freethought and defend the constitutional principle of the separation of state and church. With more than 10,000 members (and growing fast), we are the largest group of atheists and agnostics in North America." 06-07

  33. -Editorial: The Politics of Religion (New York Times)
      "Islamists, even if they are learned professionals, appear to us primarily as frustrated, irrational representatives of frustrated, irrational societies, nothing more. We live, so to speak, on the other shore. When we observe those on the opposite bank, we are puzzled, since we have only a distant memory of what it was like to think as they do. We all face the same questions of political existence, yet their way of answering them has become alien to us. On one shore, political institutions are conceived in terms of divine authority and spiritual redemption; on the other they are not. And that, as Robert Frost might have put it, makes all the difference."

      "Understanding this difference is the most urgent intellectual and political task of the present time." 08-07

  34. Nontheism: Morality Without Religion (HumanismbyJoe.com)
      Provides reasons a person will act with high morality even without religion. 11-07

  35. History of Religion and the Axial Age (US News)
      "Individuals, either by worshiping and obeying the Supreme Creator or through other beliefs, could bring about change. Particularly in the Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition, that meant people could make history even while remaking themselves. The birth of history, the rise of the individual, and even, ironically, the rise of secularism were all made possible by the religious and ethical traditions born in the Axial Age."

      "These traditions also led to the disenchantment of the world by concentrating the sacred in certain specific sites. Churches, shrines, temples, monasteries, and locations associated with saints or central figures in those traditions were places, often overseen or inhabited by priests or spiritual adepts, where the faithful could connect with the transcendent creator or principle. Like kivas, they were ceremonial places. But while kivas were symbolic representations of the spirit-infused world, sacred places in the Axial Age religions tended to be places apart from the world—a world not only emptied of its sacred dimension but also often viewed as a snare or illusion." 11-07

  36. -02-15-09 Biology and Religion (Time.com)
      "If you've ever prayed so hard that you've lost all sense of a larger world outside yourself, that's your parietal lobe at work. If you've ever meditated so deeply that you'd swear the very boundaries of your body had dissolved, that's your parietal too. There are other regions responsible for making your brain the spiritual amusement park it can be: your thalamus plays a role, as do your frontal lobes. But it's your parietal lobe — a central mass of tissue that processes sensory input — that may have the most transporting effect." 02-09

  37. Irish History, Culture, and Religion (Armstrong)
      Includes the Book of Kells, Iona monasticism, Celtic Christianity, and much more. 6-02

  38. Essay - Violence, Religion, and the Nation-State (Marvin and Ingle)
      "Americans live in a culture that is as religious as any that exists. In this article we contend that nationalism is the most powerful religion in the United States, and perhaps in many other countries."

      "Perhaps nationalism and sectarianism recognize something about each other that they hesitate to recognize about themselves. Each fears that members of the other community are willing to kill and die for truth as they understand it. For what is really true in any community is what its members can agree is worth killing for, or what they can be compelled to sacrifice their lives for." 11-04

  39. Catholic Bishops (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops)
      Provides news, texts, and more. 10-09

  40. Earliest Clocks (NIST.gov)
      "Not until somewhat recently (that is, in terms of human history) did people find a need for knowing the time of day. As best we know, 5000 to 6000 years ago great civilizations in the Middle East and North Africa began to make clocks to augment their calendars. With their attendant bureaucracies, formal religions, and other burgeoning societal activities, these cultures apparently found a need to organize their time more efficiently." 10-09

  41. Native American Spirituality (Robinson)
      Discusses Native American spirituality. "Many followers of Native American spirituality, do not regard their spiritual beliefs and practices as a 'religion' in the way in which many Christians do. Their beliefs and practices form a integral and seamless part of their very being." 10-09

  42. Early Islam

  43. Shawnee (First Nations)
      'So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people.' - Chief Tecumseh 6-02

  44. Cultures of the World (Web of Culture)
      Provides resources on gestures, cuisine, language, religions, and more.

  45. -Christian Denominations and Sects (Yahoo) star

  46. Jehovah's Witness Beliefs (WatchTower)

  47. Mennonite (Yahoo)

  48. Amish (Yahoo)

  49. Catholicism (Yahoo)

  50. Christian Science (Yahoo)

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