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Reviews of this web site: 2001 to now

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We documented only one review after 2007 due to lack of available staff time
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2011: OnlineTheologyDegree.net maintains a list of the "25 best Q&A Sites for Theologians." See http://onlinetheologydegree.net/ (ReligiousTolerance.org is listed as #3.)
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2007: Line for Heaven is the first religion-based
Web 2.0 site in history. It started on 07/07/07. It is designed like a board
game, and allows players to accumulate Karma Points leading to a guaranteed
spot in Heaven for the winner. One aim of the site is to promote religious
tolerance. Their press release mentioned ReligiousTolerance.org as a source
of data. See their press release at:
http://www.prweb.com/ and their web site at:
http://lineforheaven.com/
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2006: Religion & Ethics Newsweekly maintains a list of 17
"Web sites focused on ethics, moral/character education, general
spirituality and religion." They list this web site with the comment:
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"Explores various aspects of religious practice across religions, as well as religion's negative and positive
influences." 1
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2004-NOV-1 (approx): The Toronto Star, one of Canada's
largest newspapers, had a sidebar on their front page with U.S.
religious data from our site. The associated article discussed religious
aspects of the presidential election.
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2004-JAN-12: IllumiRate "lighting your way through the web"
collects reader's reviews of different web sites. They have seven
positive, one neutral and zero negative reviews. However, the neutral
one sounds quite positive. See:
http://www.illumirate.com/ and
http://www.illumirate.com/
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2003-AUG: CBS News, while reporting on the Ten Commandments
monument placed in the rotunda of the Alabama Justice Building,
installed a sidebar which said: "According to ReligiousTolerance.org,
the Ten Commandments are found in three places in the Bible, but Exodus
20 is the version most commonly used." They followed this with a
quotation from the Bible. 2
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2003-JUL: Nielsen's Links to Psychology and Religion Sites
describes our site as giving "information about many different
religions, religion in the media, and controversial topics. Probably the
best site of its kind, and well-worth your visit."
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2003-JUL: The Joy of Sects by Peter Occhiogrosso is a book
and a web site that promotes the belief that "The earth's spiritual
traditions are a rich repository of wisdom, practical advice, and
healing knowledge, as well as art, music, and mystery. They
reviewed our web site, saying that it: "Offers fairly encyclopedic
definitions on most of the world's religions, striving for an
even-handed treatment of disputes between denominations. The site does
an especially good job of delineating and explaining the differing views
of Christians, including mainline Protestants, born-again and
fundamentalist Christians, Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, and other
sects of Christianity. It also features sound coverage of Neopagan
traditions and a useful glossary of terms."
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2003-APR: In a report Tessa Court of Hitwise.com many
New Zealanders are satisfying their religious needs through online
surfing. "...given the range of choice and information, there's
little wonder that congregations are aging and attendances at church
services are down, with young people using the Internet to define their
spiritual journey and beliefs without having to set foot in a
church....Recent world unrest has seen the rise of sites dedicated to
promoting human rites [sic], as well as information about Islam for
non-Muslims. "Sites like
islamcity.com and religioustolerance.org
provide the opportunity for people of all religions to explore faiths
other than their own, while promoting the belief that everyone should be
able to follow their own religious practices freely, even though others
may view them as false."
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2001-NOV: Georgina Russell's book "Mind Body and Spirit:
The website guide" will be published on NOV-26. It includes reviews
of 600 websites, including ours, which deal with mind, body and spirit.
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2001-OCT: The Library of Congress Is "pursuing a project
to collect digital material relating to the September 11, 2001 attack on
the United States, its aftermath and the national and international
response." Our web site "has been selected for inclusion in this
project..."
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2001-SEP: Isaac Bonewitz publishes an article on "The Real
Origins of Halloween". 3 He comments: "if you’d
prefer a more neutral discussion of Evangelical
Christian Beliefs about Halloween, you can visit the website of the
Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance. Their essay on
How Christians View Non-Christian Religions
is also quite good, as are most of their materials on their huge
website."
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2001-MAR: Jeffery K. Hadden referred to our web site in the
book that he edited: "Religion on the Internet: Research
prospects and promises." He wrote: "...I think of
Bruce Robinson who has created the Religious Tolerance page (www.religioustolerance.org),
probably the most magnificent religious Web page on the Internet, with
nothing but sweat labor." 4
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2001-MAR: Sara Horsfall wrote a chapter in the same book
titled: "How religious organizations use the Internet: A
preliminary inquiry." She wrote under the topic of
Legitimization: "An important function of publishing material
on the Web is legitimization. Small groups can easily be dismissed by
others as inconsequential because of the few number of people in any
one place....But their presence on the Internet is unrelated to the
number of people associated with them. The Religious Tolerance site,
for instance, is maintained by a handful of people, Yet the
extensiveness of the site (and reliability of the information) gives
it a considerable presence." 5
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2001-FEB-22: The Internet Sacred Text Archive contains
nearly 200 megabytes of scriptures from many religions. On their links
page, they state: "We have included crosslinks where
appropriate to the Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance (OCRT)
site. This site has independently reviewed factual articles about many
religions. Often controversial, always educational, OCRT is a one-stop
source if you want deep background material on the texts presented at
this site."
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References:
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"Web sites focused on ethics,
moral/character education, general spirituality and religion,"
Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, 2006, at:
http://www.pbs.org/
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"Exodus For Ten Commandments,"
CBS News, 2003-AUG-27, at:
http://www.cbsnews.com/
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Isaac Bonewitz, "The Real Origins of Halloween," at:
http://www.neopagan.net/Halloween.HTML
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J.K. Hadden, "Confessions of a recovering technophobe: A
brief history of the religious movements homepage project,"
in "Religion and the social order, Volume 8, Religion on the
Internet: Research prospects and promises," JAI Press,
(2000), Pages 358-9.
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Sara Horsfall, "How religious organizations use the
Internet: A preliminary inquiry." in "Religion and
the social order, Volume 8, Religion on the Internet: Research
prospects and promises," JAI Press, (2000), Page 175.
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Latest update: 2011-AUG-29
Author: B.A. Robinson

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