Links for Introduction to the Study of Religion (RLST 101)

General:

• AAR (American Academy of Religion)
• Religion News
• Religion and American politics (news and opinion pieces)
• Rudolf Otto
• From Primitives to Zen, by Mircea Eliade
• Eliaden terms
• "Darwin's God" by Robin Marantz Henig (NY Times Magazine, 3/4/07): a good discussion of theories of religion in the field of evolutionary biology
  

  Myth:

• Mircea Eliade on "The Structure of Myth"
• Map of Mesopotamia
• "Enuma Elish" (Babylonian creation myth)
  • N.K. Sandars trans.
  • N.K. Sandars trans. with a few pictures
  • E.A. Speiser trans.
  • E.A. Speiser trans. with notes by Isaac Mendelsohn
  • Fanciful drawing of Marduk killing Tiamat
• Ancient Near East internet sites 

Judaism:

• Judaism 101
• Judaism and Jewish Resources
• Jewish Virtual Library
  • The Tanakh (Hebrew Bible): 1917 JPS translation
• Hebrew Bible (1917 JPS translation)
• The Dead Sea Scrolls
• Karaite Jews of America (small denomination of Jews who do not believe in the "Oral Torah"
  
• Debate over authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls (New York Times, Dec. 24, 2002)
• "Israel's Y2K Problem" (New York Times Magazine, Oct. 3, 1999 )
• Jewish-Polish Priest
  
• Jewish-Christian Relations:
  • Evangelicals and Jews, by Martin Marty (Aug. 15, 2000)
  • Dabru Emet: Jewish statement on Christians and Christianity (Sept. 10, 2000)
  • NY Times column about Dabru Emet (Sept. 23, 2000)
  • Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews (Feb. 18, 2001)
    NPR interview with James Carroll, 10 minutes
  • Declaration of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to the Jewish Community
    
• Judaism in China
• Jewish Japan (some good stuff, some dead links, and some flaky theories)

  Christianity:

• Christianity sources (Yale Divinity School)
• UPenn Resources on Western Religion
• Christian Classics Online
• Bible (RSV)
• Online Encyclopedia of Early Church History
  
  
• From Jesus to Christ (1998 PBS documentary)
• Peter and Paul (2005 PBS documentary)
  
• The Jesus Seminar Forum
• Gospel of Thomas
• Gospel of Judas (National Geographic)
  
  
• The Passion of the Christ, by Mel Gibson
  • The Gospel According to Gibson, by Paula Frederiksen
  • Resources on the Mel Gibson movie from Boston College
  • Journal of Religion and Society: Special Edition
  • Jesus H. Christ: Slate review
    
    
• Catholic Information Center
• The Vatican
  
  
• Orthodox Christian Information Center
• Orthodox Byzantine Icons
  
  
• "Of Conservatism & Distinctiveness in the Religious Marketplace" (NY Times)

  Islam:

• "Tradition vs Charisma: The Sunni Shi'i Divide in the Muslim World"
• The 2005 Hajj (NY Times)
  

  Confucianism:

• Confucian Thought and Practice (RLST 471) links page
  

  India and Hinduism:

• Ancient India
• "The Hindu Universe" (Hindunet)
• Harappa: The Indus Valley and the Raj
  • Yogi seal from Mohenjo-daro
• British Library India Office
• Manifestations of Shiva (video slide/lecture by Prof. Diana Eck, Harvard University)
• "Millions at Holy Festival Bathe in Ganges" (NY Times)
• Article about a Dalit (untouchable) politician
• Journal of South Asia Women Studies
• Indian philosophy
• Hindu Temple of Greater Chicago
• Hindu Temple in New York suburb

  Buddhism:

• Buddhist Thought and Practice (RLST 260) links page

  Other:

• Zoroastrian feast in Iran