RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD SITES

RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD SITES

Dharma Net International - Gateways to Buddhism.
Future Generations - Environmental programs in support of Asian lands and peoples.
Maktab Tarighat Oveyssi Shahmaghsoudi - The School of Islamic Sufism.
The Bahá'í World - The official web site of the Bahá'í faith.
MANDAEAN SCRIPTURES. Who were the MANDAEANS? The Societas Gnostica Norvegia - Gnostic Society Virtual Library has a Mandaean Section where you can find the entire Ginza Rba .
The Electronic Bodhidharma - A Japanese Zen site.
Naqshbandi Home Page -- Home of the Naqshbandi Sufi Way.
Gurdjieff International Review -- (formerly the Gurdjieff Home Page) A collection of information and links relating to the teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff.
The Theosophical Society -- Dedicated to the Western esoteric study of theosophy, this is also the place to find Quest magazine online. The Theosophical Society is a nonsectarian, undogmatic, worldwide organization devoted to human solidarity, cultural understanding, and self-development. It seeks to bring people together; to reconcile the religions, philosophies, and sciences of both East and West; and to increase awareness of the inner reality inherent in every human being.
THEOSOPHY
The S.A. Theosophist, P.O.Box 47, Pretoria 0001. No website.
The Spire -- The online magazine of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, featuring discussion forums and the Cathedral's Labyrinth project.

WORLD RELIGIONS

There is far more to spirituality than a single world view. If one does not take the time nor make the effort to study another's faith or religious heritage one cannot appreciate the human species. The purpose of this document is to provide those beginning a study of the world's major religions with a few useful and selected sources with which to start. In addition to net links, it will include a brief but valuable selected bibliography of texts not usually found elsewhere among the recommended links. Links to Useful Sites.

GENERAL SITES: 1. World Wide Web Links: Religion
This site contains many links to most of the Major Religions of the World. It will be very useful to students.

2. Facets of Religion (Virtual Library--Religion
This site provides information to facilitate the study of most of the world's religions, including translations of scriptures and other important documents, explanatory essays and resource links.

3. Mysticism in World Religions
Shared aspects of mystical thought are comparatively displayed as they occur in the scriptures and writings of the major systems of Religious Thought.

4. A Goddess Bibliography:
Extensive and arranged by geographical regions.

ATHEISM 1. Religious Atheisms: A Guide for the Complete Atheist
This site deals with atheistic views and perspectives within the context of numerous systems of Religious Thought. Fairly extensive.

TAOISM 1. Taoism: Translations of the Tao Te Ching and The Art of War

2. Taoism
A hodgepodge of resources and links including texts from the writing of Chuang Tse.

3. The Taoism Information Page
While it contains useful information for those unfamiliar with Taoism, it also includes scholarly and philosophical articles, many translations of several Taoist texts (including Crowley's translation of the Tao Te Ching, the relationship of Taoism to Alchemy, bibliographies and resource information.

4. An Introduction to Oriental Medicine
This site includes basic principles related to Yin/Yang applications, diagnosis and treatment, herbs, acupuncture, etc. in relation to the Three Treasures, qi, Jing and Shen.

5. The Taoist Approach to Conflict Resolution: How to Overcome Without Fighting.
This essay embodies and explains a number of important Taoist principles.

6. I Ching: An Electronic Oracle.
Type in your question and get a quick response. It's sort of fun.

7. Books on Tai Chi Chuan and Taoism:
A useful bibliography that also contains a section on Chinese culture.

NORSE and GERMANIC TRADITIONS
(See also the section on Runes.)

1. The Irminsul AEttir
Outlines the nature of a resurgent religious movement embodied in the religion of Asatru. Asatru venerates the pre-christian Gods, Goddesses, and Landvaettir (land spirits) associated with trees, other objects and places. Information within and links connected from this site will lead you to a rich source of information related to this area of contemporary religious activity and thought.

2. Heathen: Website of the Odinnic Rite.
At this site, Odinism is not distinguished from Asatru. In addition to being rich with information and links, it has a published Ritual which is appropriate to the season, and a listing of current festivals for a 2 month period.

PHALLICISM AND RELIGION
We have not yet had much success in finding sophisticated and appropriate net links for this subject. We would be very grateful for any help.

Sex As Symbol. by Alvin Boyd Kuhn.
This site presents the text of Mr. Kuhn's book of the same title. It contains a pontificating diatribe couched in archaic eloquence about and against the efforts of religious institutions to fetter the human mind by perverting our understanding of sexual symbolism and its significance. In particular, Chapter XIV, "The Language of Lingam and Yoni" and Chapter XV, "Phallicism Transfigured," should be entertaining and, depending on your own background, probably informative as well,

ZOROASTRIANISM

THE AVESTA ORGANIZATION

ZOROASTRIAN SITE with Great Links. The scriptures of Zoroastrianism. This ancient religion was the dominant world religion at the time of Jesus, and had a tremendous influence on Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Also included is information on Avestan and Indo-european languages, The Avesta and Zoroastrian Archives.

http://www.kasson.cfa.org/~jpeterso/avesta.html

http://www.ccse.net/~arjuna93/index.htm

Future Generations - Environmental programs in support of Asian lands and peoples.

MANDAEAN SCRIPTURES. Who were the MANDAEANS? The Societas Gnostica Norvegia - Gnostic Society Virtual Library has a Mandaean Section where you can find the entire Ginza Rba .

WORLD RELIGIONS

1. World Wide Web Links: Religion
This site contains many links to most of the Major Religions of the World. It will be very useful to students.

3. Mysticism in World Religions
Shared aspects of mystical thought are comparatively displayed as they occur in the scriptures and writings of the major systems of Religious Thought.

2. Taoism
A hodgepodge of resources and links including texts from the writing of Chuang Tse.

1. Sex As Symbol. by Alvin Boyd Kuhn.
This site presents the text of Mr. Kuhn's book of the same title. It contains a pontificating diatribe couched in archaic eloquence about and against the efforts of religious institutions to fetter the human mind by perverting our understanding of sexual symbolism and its significance. In particular, Chapter XIV, "The Language of Lingam and Yoni" and Chapter XV, "Phallicism Transfigured," should be entertaining and, depending on your own background, probably informative as well.

ZOROASTRIAN SITE with Great Links. Avesta: Zoroastrian Archives The scriptures of Zoroastrianism. This ancient religion was the dominant world religion at the time of Jesus, and had a tremendous influence on Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Also included is information on Avestan and Indo-european languages.

RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD SITES
Buddhism, Tibetan
Buddhism	Gateways to Buddhism	Dharma Net International
Psychology of Religion
MITHRAIC
REVELATIONS
ASTROLOGY

THEOSOPHY
Official site of the Bahá'í faith		The Bahá'í World
The School of Islamic Sufism		Maktab Tarighat Oveyssi Shahmaghsoudi
Naqshbandi Sufi Way		Naqshbandi Home Page
Japanese Zen site.		The Electronic Bodhidharma