Ways of Understanding Religion Internet Resource Page
Projects
The Religious Movements Homepage http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu
This will be the main page you use to get started on your project community.Google http://www.google.com/ The Search Engine.
Searchedu http://www.searchedu.com/ The place to go next.
Assessing Web pages http://www.linkline.com/personal/rwreed/wur/wurguide.htm How to know if the site you've found is really going to help you understand your community.
General (Good Starting Places)
Academic Info. A good starting point if you're unfamiliar with a topic and looking for places to start or an overview. http://www.academicinfo.net/nrms.html
Voice of the Shuttle A fantastic collection of links for all aspects of humanities research. Well maintained and frequently updated. http://vos.ucsb.edu/
Hartford Institute for Religion Research New Religious Movements Resource Page
AAR New Religious Movements Group Page -- many links to various scholarly sites
Jewish-Christian Relations and the Dialogue with World Religions -- A Bibliographical Survey http://www.magma.ca/~fjduggan/sidic/95n2a4.htm
100 Questions about Arab-Americans: A Journalist's Guide -- Very informative, full of basic information
New Religious Movements -- Some Problems of Definition -- George D Chryssides, University of Wolverhampton
New Religions and the Internet -- George D Chryssides, University of Wolverhampton
Specific Group Links
L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology: An annotated bibliographical survey of primary and selected secondary literature -- Marco Frenschkowski, University of Mainz, Germany
Is the Canon on Jonestown Closed? -- Rebecca Moore (pdf document) Nova Religio
The Divine Light Mission as a Social Organization -- Maeve Price Sociological Review 1979
Our Current Situation -- Interesting Things to Think about
Letter from Naomi Shihab Nye, Arab-American Poet: To Any Would-Be Terrorists
Terrorism Strikes America: What They are Saying This is a collection of "official statements," mostly from newspaper sources, since the September 11, 2001 attack.