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Useful Links

Bahai Faith Site
http://www.bahai.com/Bahaullah/introduction.htm
Bahai Faith The Bahá'í Faith upholds the unity of God, recognizes the unity of His Prophets, and inculcates the principle of the oneness and wholeness of the entire human race.

Buddist Sites
http://www.buddhanet.net/
Buddhanet is a Buddhist information network and Buddhazine.

http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/BRF/
A pointers file which lists a truly impressive array of Buddhist groups and societies, journals, mailing lists, news groups and other resources.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/buddhism.htm

Christian Sites
http://www.ampleforth.org.uk/
Ampleforth Abbey Web has link to: Abbey of St Lawrence Benedictines, Prayer,Vocations, Parishes Publications Ampleforth College and Ampleforth College Junior School

http://www.bible.org/
The biblical Studies foundation New English Translation.

http://www.buckfast.org.uk/
The home of a Roman Catholic Community of Benedictine monks in Devon, England. The first monastery was founded in 1018, but was suppressed by Henry VIII in 1539. It was refounded in 1882. The Abbey Church was rebuilt by the monks themselves. Buckfast now welcomes almost half a million visitors each year.

http://www.csbsju.edu/
The College of Saint Benedict, Saint John's University

http://www.diolinks.portsmouth-dio.org.uk/young.htm
This site has a good educational Christian links.

http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/
The Fathers of the Church the Catholic Encyclopedia (1917) The need of a Catholic Encyclopedia in English was manifest for many years before it was decided to publish one.

http://www.pakistanchristianvoice.net/
a monthly magazine with news and articles of interest to Pakistan Christians

http://www.portsmouth-dio.org.uk/
Roman Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth Our vision - and hope - is of ourselves as the gathered community of the disciples of the Lord, united in Baptism and bonded together in Christ by the Eucharist.

Jain Site
http://www.sacred-texts.com/jai/treatise.txt
The Jain religion which enjoins adoration and worship of Jinas or the religion which is propounded by Jinas is knows as the Jain religion.

Jewish Sites
http://www.shamash.org/tanach/dvar.html
Shamash: The Jewish Internet Consortium Divrei Torah – Commentaries The divrei torah form the bulk of the material in this directory.

http://www.libertynet.org/anderson/newslist.html
Engler's Jewish News Links Salutes the Jewish State on Her 50th Anniversary of Independence from British Mandatory Rule Subscribe to J-PEN Forum for Jewish Journalism.

Hindus Sites
http://www.bhagavad-gita.org/
It is the divine discourse spoken by the Supreme Lord Krishna Himself and is the most popular and well known of all the sacred scriptures from ancient India.

http://www.hindunet.org/scriptures/

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/dead/index2.html
The book of the Dead Literature and artwork on prayer, ritual, and meditation from the religious traditions of Tibet, India and nepal

K'ung Fu Tzu Site
http://www.religioustolerance.org/confuciu.htm
K'ung Fu Tzu (commonly pronounced Confucius in English) He lived during the Chou dynasty, and era known for its moral laxity. Later in life, he wandered through many states of China, giving advice to their rulers. He accumulated a small band of students during this time. The last years of his life were spent back in Lu, where he devoted himself to teaching.

Muslim Sites
http://www.islamicity.org/voi/
This site provides English lectures, Friday Sermons, and current news regarding Islam in RealAudio and RealVideo formats and is sponsored by the Islamic Center of Southern California.

http://wings.buffalo.edu/sa/muslim/umma/umma.html
Muslims - culture, news and issue forums

Taoism or Daoism Site
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/taoism/
Introductions to Taoism or Daoism

Shinto Site
http://www.religioustolerance.org/shinto.htm
Shinto is an ancient Japanese religion. Starting about 500 BCE (or earlier) it was originally "an amorphous mix of nature worship, fertility cults, divination techniques, hero worship, and shamanism." Its name was derived from the Chinese words "shin tao" (The Way of the Gods) in the 8th Century CE.

Sikh Site
http://www.sikhs.org/transl.htm
The Japji hymn by Guru Nanak Dev is considered to be the key to Sri Guru Granth Sahib and an epitome of the Sikh doctrine.

Zoroastrian
http://www.avesta.org/avesta.html
"Zoroastrianism is the oldest of the revealed world-religions, and it has probably had more influence on mankind, directly and indirectly, than any other single faith." -Mary Boyce, Zoroastrians.

News links

http://www.christianmedianews.org/
Whatchdog of reporting on Christianity and Christians in the media

http://www.christianityonline.com/campuslife/current/

http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9608/02/israel.settlements/
Israel lifts restrictions on Jewish settlement

http://www.religionnews.com/calendar.html

http://www.ummah.org.uk/
IG news, directory, Islamic resourses

Journals Links


www.ats.edu
Journal of Theological Education
email: ats@ats.edu

http://www.cem.org.uk/
British Journal of Religious Education. T
he Chistian Education Movement CEM offers support to all who are involved in the delivery of Religious Education.

Journal of Christian Education
email: harkness@ttc.edu.sg

www.nccbuscc.org/education/catechetics/livingit.htm
The Living light

Muslim Educational Quaterly
email: islmacad@globalnet.co.uk

www.tandf.co.uk/journals
Journal of Moral Education

Other links

The Corpus Hermeticum
http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/herm/index.htm
The Corpus Hermeticum are the core documents of the Hermetic tradition. Dating from early in the Christian era, they were mistakenly dated to a much earlier period by Church officials (and everyone else) up until the 15th century. Because of this, they were allowed to survive and we seen as an early precursor to what was to be Christianity. We know today that they were, in fact, from the early Christian era, and came out of the turbulent religious seas of Hellenic Egypt.

The Dead Sea Scrolls
http://www.webcom.com/~gnosis/library/scroll.htm
The Dead Sea Scrolls The Book of Secrets
" I shall speak out freely, and I shall express my various sayings among you"

Gnostic Scriptures
http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhl.html
The Nag Hammadi a collection of thirteen ancient codices containing over fifty texts, was discovered in upper Egypt in 1945. This immensely important discovery includes a large number of primary Gnostic scriptures -- texts once thought to have been entirely destroyed during the early Christian struggle to define "orthodoxy" -- scriptures such as the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Philip, and the Gospel of Truth.

Gnostic Society Library
http://www.gnosis.org/library.html
The Gnostic Society Library contains a vast collection of primary documents relating to the Gnostic tradition as well as a selection of in-depth audio lectures and brief archive notes designed to orient study of the documents, their sources, and the religious tradition they represent.

Rosicrucian Spheres
http://www.vermontel.com/~vtsophia/table.html
22 Meditations on the Sepher Yetzirah a Christian path in spiritual geometry "Michael//Sophia in Nomine Christi" a pic of our work on the 22 Rosicrucian Spheres.

The sacred-texts
http://www.sacred-texts.com/ane/enuma.htm
Enuma Elish the Epic of Creation
L.W. King Translator (from The Seven Tablets of Creation, London 1902)

Urantia
http://www.urantia.org/detail.html#Titles
The Central and Superuniverse These thirty one papers depict the nature of Deity, the reality of Paradise, the organization and working of the central and superuniverses, the personalities of the grand universe, and the high destiny of evolutionary mortals.