Oxford
Reference Collection: (Santa
Monica library card required) Among the many reference books
accessible through this database are: A
Dictionary of the Bible, The Oxford Companion
to the Bible, The Oxford Guide to People and
Places of the Bible, A Dictionary of Buddhism,
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian
Church, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam,
A Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion,
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, The
Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, The Oxford
Dictionary of Popes, The Oxford Dictionary of
Saints, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of
World Religions.
Sacred Texts Online: free online versions of
hundreds of religious and mythological texts, from
Apocrypha to Zoroaster. Includes King James, Jewish
Publication Society, Hebrew, Greek, and Latin
bibles. This is a remarkable and well-rounded
resource and should be your first stop for religious
texts online.
The Unbound
Bible: from Biola University, an evangelical
Christian university in La Mirada, this site offers
dozens of bible versions, accessible by book,
chapter, and verse online or downloadable in full.
Gutenberg Bibles: Images of each page of
the Gutenberg bibles owned by the
British Museum,
the University of Texas at Austin, and the
Gottengen State and University Library are online.
Navigating the
Bible: designed for bar/bat mitzvah study, this
site includes audio files of every verse of the
Torah sung by a cantor. Saints: the
index by name at catholic.org and the
patron saints index at catholic-fourm.com both
offer information on thousands of saints. The patron
saints index is especially useful for finding a
saint connected to a particular topic or day.
Yahoo's Religion and Spirituality Directory for the
Los Angeles Area: Locate the institution of your
choice.
Secular Web: resources on the history and theory of non-religious
worldviews. Mythology: the classic
Bullfinch's Mythology is available online, as is
Frazier's comparative study
The Golden
Bough. For quick lookups,
Encyclopedia Mythica is very useful, while the
University of Victoria's
Classical Myth: The Ancient Sources gives easy
access to the original Greek texts and images.
The Harvard
Classics: Almost all of this fifty-volume set is
now available free online. Philosophy and religion
selections include works by: Plato, Epictetus,
Marcus Aurelius,. Francis Bacon, John Milton, Ralph
Waldo Emerson, St. Augustine, Thomas à Kempis,
Descartes, Voltaire, Rousseau, Hobbes, Luther,
Berkeley, Hume, Pascal, and others.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: a work in
progress, the completed parts of this free online
source are very serious and quite good.
Philosophy and Religion at the Online Books Page:
A wealth of philosophy and religion material is out of copyright and
on the Web, including the major works of Western
philosophy up to the early 20th century. See also the
Ethics and Aesthetics and
Classical Languages and Literature sections.
This site, by the University of Pennsylvania
library, covers all topics and can be searched by
author, subject, or title from
its home page.
Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory, and
Postmodern Thought: a substantial portal
assembled by a University of Colorado instructor.
Links are mostly to secondary sources and range from
introductory to advanced. |