BooksPrice is an innovative web site that finds the lowest cost
source for a group of books that you wish to purchase. You can search by
book title, author, book category or ISBN number. See:
http://www.booksprice.com/
Absolute Publishing Group publishes books on dreams, Gnosis,
spirituality, Judas Iscariot, out of body experiences and more. See:
http://www.absolutepublishinggroup.com/
Banned books is new site for all secularists, humanists,
atheists, agnostics, skeptics and freethinkers to visit. It is a refuge
for the books and tapes your church, government or others afraid of the
truth don't want you to read. See:
http://www.banned-books.com/
BooksChristian carries a broad range of inspirational books,
women's novels, small group study guides, pastor resources, Christian games,
etc. See:
http://www.bookschristian.com/
Monkfish Book Publishing Company is an independent press specializing in
"the diversity of authentic spiritual experience. Genres range from
traditional 'wisdom literature'... to commercial fiction such as 'The Mind
Parasites' by Colin Wilson." They also publish the imprint Provenance
Editions, which updates older classics such as Rabindranath Tagore's 'The
Religion of Man.' See
http://www.monkfishpublishing.com
The New Life Mission, a Fundamentalist Christian group,
distributes free e-books and paper books from their web site at:
http://www.bjnewlife.org
The Spirit Village sells "self help books and other products
designed to develop the power of mind and enhance one's life." See:
http://www.thespiritvillage.com/
Sources of free e-books:
Free ebooks on spiritual knowledge are downloadable from http://knowledge.hyperlink.cz/. Included are books on relationships, love, religion, wisdom, Christianity, New Age, Apocalypse.
HolyBooks.com provide free downloadable holy books, sacred and spiritual texts in full length. Download the Bible, The Holy Qur'an, Vedic text and thousands of books on yoga, Buddhism, magic, meditation and many other catagories. See: http://www.holybooks.com
The Inner Journey offers spiritual "material to anyone
seeking the inspiration necessary to help bring about change in the
quality of life." They offer a variety of texts which are freely
available for downloading. See: http://www.netspace.net.au/~sooznaid/#home
Questia, "the World's Largest Online Library," has
numerous books on religion at: http://www.questia.com/
Journals:
Axis Mundi is an online journal created by the religious
studies students at the University of Alberta and Wilfrid Laurier
University. See:
http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/
Cross Currents describes themselves as "a global network for
people of faith and intelligence who are committed to connecting the
wisdom of the heart and the life of the mind." See:
http://www.aril.org/
Dialog: A Journal of Theology investigates "... the intersections
between contemporary social issues and the mission of the Lutheran church."
Although the cost for downloading an issue is prohibitive for the general
reader, they do have free access to an older issue. See:
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/
The Journal of Church and State is published by Baylor
University. See:
http://www.baylor.edu/
The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory "deals broadly
with the phenomenon of religion and cultural theory." See:
http://www.jcrt.org/
The Journal for Millennial Studies brings "together the
strands of millennial, apocalyptic, and utopic studies...to aid in
creating a community of millennial scholars." See:
http://www.mille.org/
The Journal of Religion & Society "promotes the study of all
religious groups and beliefs among the various peoples of the world, past
and present." See:
http://moses.creighton.edu/
Journal of Religious Culture is an English/German journal
published by the University of Frankfurt in Germany. See:
http://web.uni-frankfurt.de/
Religion in the News is a journal published three times a year
by The Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public
Life. It tracks the discussion of religion through the news media.See:
http://www.trincoll.edu/
Review of Religious Research is a quarterly that: "... seeks to provide
a regular channel for the exchange of information on methods, findings and
uses of religious research. It contains a variety of articles, book reviews
and reports on research projects." See:
http://rra.hartsem.edu/
Rutgers Journal of Law & Religion studies the relationship
between law and religion on a global scale. See:
http://www.lawandreligion.com/
The website www.yellowbrix.com
temporarily posts articles from the most recent issue of selected journals on
their web site. Some journals with a religious/spirituality content include:
MagazineCost has a list of religious magazines with links to companies which sell subscriptions at discount prices. See:
http://www.magazinecost.com/
NetMagazines offers a "risk-free guarantee" for
subscriptions to over 1000 magazines. Their religion section is at:
http://www.netmagazines.com/
Individual magazines:
The Baptist Joint Committee has a listing of resource materials available on the topics of religious freedom, separation of
church and state, religion in the schools. They also advertise their biweekly Report from the Capital. See:
http://www.erols.com/bjcpa/pubs/public.html
The Christian Herald is
published by Alpha and Omega Christian Foundation, a Fundamentalist
Christian group. They attempt to reconstruct the original Christian faith
that they believe was practiced by, the early New Testament Churches. See:
http://www.thechristianherald.info/
Cross Currents is a magazine which "has been covering the conversation taking place within various religious
communities as people rethink their relationships with the environment. A whole new movement has emerged, connecting ecology with theology:
ecotheology." Their web site is at: http://www.crosscurrents.org/nature.htm
God's Review is an interfaith magazine that reflects the religious diversity of Tasmania. It is available in hard copy and via downloadable PDF files from their website. See: http://www.godsreview.org/
Religion Link is a free, biweekly newsletter provided by the Religion Newswriters Association and its foundation. "Each
edition contains story ideas about religion and public life, including sources, background and web links." See:
http://www.religionwriters.com/
Research News & Opportunities in Science and Theology "is a monthly international newspaper reporting the latest research
findings, funding opportunities, and interesting discussions on the relationship between religion, science, and health." See:
http://www.researchnews.org/
Spirit Talk is a weekly on-line "new spiritual / New Age magazine which contains feature articles on such topics as:
Living Well and Staying Fit, Society At Large, Our Planet Earth, Inspired To Act (Inspirational, educational and informative pieces),
Because its OK (Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues). They have daily, weekly, monthly and yearly subscriptions. See:
http://www.spirittalk.com
Science & Spirit's "mission is to facilitate a rich and robust dialogue between the scientific and
religious communities by forging a common vocabulary." Their goal is "a more integrated and balanced approach to complex social issues."
See: http://www.science-spirit.org/
Sojourners describes themselves as: "...a
Christian ministry whose mission is to proclaim and practice the biblical
call to integrate spiritual renewal and social justice....In
our lives and in our work, we seek to be guided by the biblical principles
of justice, mercy, and humility." They distribute a
free weekly newsletter via E-mail. See: http://www.sojo.net/
Zion's Herald has been published since 1823. "It
embraces an ecumenical and interfaith perspective on religion and society.
Hence, our mission is to provide a wide-ranging forum of opinion and
reflection on issues pertinent to organized religion, to society and
culture, and to individual spiritual development." See:
http://www.zionsherald.org/
Movies, documentaries, etc.:
DVD Ideas has is a DVD movie listing website. Last
time we looked, they had sixty movies on the topic of religion. See:
http://www.dvdideas.com/
Go-kart Films has released a DVD titled: "Experiencing the Soul: before birth, during life and after death." 18 of the world�s
foremost spiritual leaders, teachers, and scientific researchers share the many ways we experience the soul. It includes interviews of The
Dalai Lama, Elisabeth K�bler-Ross, Betty Eadie, Dannion Brinkley, Raymond Moody, Stephen Levine, Jean Houston, Sri Daya Mata, Sant
Rajinder Singh, Joan Borysenko,Michael Grosso, Kenneth Ring, Anne Puryear, Sarah and Brent Hinze, Bill Giggenheim, Fred and Alan Wolf.
See: http://www.maniacmerch.com/
Google Video is billed as: "the world's first open online
video marketplace, where you can search for, watch and even buy an
ever-growing collection of TV shows, movies, music videos, documentaries,
personal productions and more." See
http://video.google.com/ This web site is in beta testing as of
2006-JUN-21. A search for "religion" returned about 914 hits. Abortion 85.
Homosexuality 43. Many films are donated to Google Video. They vary greatly
in quality. Some are rather obviously vicious propaganda; others are quite
humorous.
Freedom Writers is a very positive movie being made about a
classroom of freshman high school students without hope, a maverick teacher
who lost her temper one day, and a business person who invested in the class
by funding their trip to Europe to visit Auschwitz, Sarajevo, Anne Frank's
attic, and other conflict zones. A remarkable story. They are short of
funding. See:
http://www.littledust.com/
We Belong is a "short documentary video about two small town gay
teens who had the courage to stand up to bigotry and discrimination in their
schools, and the determination to tell their stories to the world." See:
http://webelongthemovie.com/
Top Documentary Films (TDF) has a supply of documentary films that you can watch. Their religion section is at: http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/
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