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Resources for the Study of Religion

Local Resources

• CLA Career Services
• U of M Library Resources
• Classical and Near Eastern Studies Resources Page
• University of Minnesota Wilson Library
• Susan Gangl, University of Minnesota Wilson Library

Scholarly Societies

• American Society for Church History 
• American Historical Association
• American Academy in Rome
• American Academy of Religion
• American Studies Association
• Catholic Historical Society
• Conference on Faith and History
• Medieval Academy of America
• Mormon Historical Association
• North American Association for the Study of Religion (NAASR)
• North American Patristics Society
• Sixteenth Century Society and Conference
• Society for Biblical Literature
• Society of Pentecostal Studies
• Society for Reformation Research
• Renaissance Society of America
• For other organizations, see American Academy of Religion and American Society for Church History

Academic Centers

• The Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, Boston College.
• The Pluralism Project, Harvard University.

Other Websites

• Adherents.com, a site with a a growing collection of over 43,870 adherent statistics and religious geography citations.
• ARDA, Assoication of Religion Data Archives
• The Immanent Frame, a blog hosted by the Social Science Research Council
• The Internet Sacred Text Archive, largest freely available archive of online books about religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric on the Internet
• Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia, previously available only on CD-ROM, the Encyclopedia is the first comprehensive source on Jewish women
• Religion Dispatches, A daily online magazine dedicated to the analysis and understanding of religious forces in the world today, highlighting a diversity of progressive voices and aimed at broadening and advancing the public conversation
• Religion Online, Full text versions of over 6,000 articles and chapters by religious studies scholars.
• Religious and US Public Holidays, 2008-12, a site sponsored by the U of M Equal Opportunity & Affirmative Action Office
• Religious Tolerance, another Canadian site
• Religious Worlds, a compendium of information from a Canadian source
• Sanctified Violence in Ancient Mediterranean Religions
• Scholarly Approaches to the Study and Teaching of Religion, a collection of resources to aid scholars and students in undertaking the academic study of religion
• The Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
• Studying Religion, Russell T. McCutcheon’s discussion of how and why to study religion
• Voice of the Shuttle: Religious Studies, this page includes impressivly comprehensive links to a wide variety of resources