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- Religious Texts and Resources - Links to a wide variety of online primary religious and sacred texts, together with the archives of religious texts from the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Computer Analysis of Texts.
- Religious Texts in the Etext Archives - Selection of online texts, including poems in praise of Abirami, the Dawn-Breakers, multiple Buddhist texts, the Nag-Hammadi, the Quran, Rosicrucian writings, and the Aazhvaar paasurams.
- California State University, Northridge - The Religious Studies Department at California State University, Northridge offers a Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies. The Department encourages students to draw upon a variety of fields and disciplines for African-American Studies, Anthropology, Psychology, and Sociology. A major will be able to interpret religious texts, think both empathetically and critically about conflicting religious claims, acquire knowledge of the history of more than one major religious tradition, apply intercultural methods to religious inquiry and analysis, and articulate a perception of one's role in society, in both career and public service options.
- Points to Click: Religious Texts Online - Online Journalism Review article on finding online religious texts.
- Sacred-texts: Vedas - The full text of all four Vedas in English, as well as the text of the Rig Veda in Sanskrit, and many other Vedic scriptures which are the basis of Hinduism and other religions.
- Religious Resources: Electronic Texts - KJV and RSV Bible, Book of Mormon, and Koran, from the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia.
- Online Bibles and Religious Texts - Collection of links to online texts; mostly Biblical but also includes links for the Koran and Book of Mormon.
- Holy Books of the World - Brief descriptions of a selection of mostly historic religious texts. No links to actual texts.
- Internet Sacred Text Archive - Archive of primary texts relating to all major world religions and many other spiritual practices, including all major scriptures and hundreds of other documents. Documents are public domain English translations and original languages.
- Beliefnet: Sacred Texts - Links to a wide selection of full texts, including Baha'i sacred writings, the Dhammapada, Confucian Analects, Tao-Te Ching, several versions of the Bible, Hadith, Sunnah, and Wiccan and neo-pagan texts.
Wikipedia Articles
- Pyramid Texts - The Pyramid Texts are a collection of ancient Egyptian religious texts from the time of the Old Kingdom. Written in Old Egyptian, the pyramid texts were carved on the walls and sarcophagi of the pyramids at Saqqara during the 5th and 6th Dynasties of the Old Kingdom.
- Reports of unusual religious childbirths - There are several reports of unusual religious childbirths. This are in general reported in religious texts and are believed to be factual by some people.
- Religious symbolism - Religious symbolism is the use of symbols, including archetypes, acts, artwork, events, or natural phenomena, by a religion. Religions view religious texts, rituals, and works of art as symbols of compelling ideas or ideals.
- Hermeneutics - Hermeneutics may be described as the development and study of theories of the interpretation and understanding of texts. In contemporary usage in religious studies, hermeneutics refers to the study of the interpretation of religious texts.
- Gnostic texts - Gnosticism used a number of religious texts that are preserved, in part or whole, in ancient manuscripts or are lost but mentioned critically in Patristic writings.