This site’s unique tool allows the user to select different religions and conduct a comparison on backgrounds and beliefs. Each religion entry provides current news and information and links to further reading. Another great tool is the multi-religion holiday calendar, which shows various religious holidays all in one click.
Facts on File's World Religions Online database offers an objective and comprehensive guide to the World's major religions and spiritual traditions.
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99 complete sacred texts from the world’s major religions. From the Bible and the Quran, to the Tibetan Book of the Dead and Daodejing, to Popol Vuh and the Táin bó Cuailnge, some of the most influential religious writings and collections of mythology.
The Norton Anthology of World Religions by Jack Miles (Editor); Wendy Doniger (Editor); Donald S. Lopez (Editor); James Robson (Editor); David Biale (Editor); Lawrence Cunningham (Editor); Jane Dammen McAuliffe (Editor)
Ernest Bursey. 5 volumes. [DVD -- non circulating] Media BL 85 .I8 2002 Christianity, Native American, Hinduism, Buddism, Jainism, Chinese Taoism, Confucianism, Judiasm, Islam, Baha'i
Essentials of faith -- 7 part series
Films for the Humanities and Sciences. [DVD video] The series includes: Christianity part 1, Judaism, part 2, Islam part 3, Hinduism, part 4, Buddhism part 5, Humanism part 6, Paganism part 7 130 - 136. 7 DVDs. Media BL 80.2 .E78 2006
Understanding World Religions and Contemporary Cultures [DVD video]
How to Be a Perfect Stranger : The essential religious etiquette handbook by Stuart M. Matlins (Editor); Arthur J. Magida (Editor)Insights from a pioneering leader in world religion, on the intersections of the sacred and the secular. New in paperback! Explore our connections--as human beings with each other, as one nation with all other nations, as the human species with the whole of our environment--through the lens of faith. Katharine Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop of The Episcopal Church, examines these connections as she looks at the intersections of faith with the major issues of our day: How does faith speak to poverty, climate change, the economy, health care, and what is the faith response? How can believers from many faith traditions find common ground while honoring the Divine, serving one another, and creating deeper community? How do we best use the resources of faith to connect us to the hearts of our neighbors and to the heart of God? "Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, with her elegant, light touch, shows how an authentic Christianity demands a concern for, and an involvement with, thoroughly mundane issues such as ending poverty and hunger, providing health care, and dealing with climate change, gender equality, and crime. In her version of reality, everything is sacred except sin." --The Rt. Rev. Desmond Tutu