There are lots of brilliant websites, and some not so good. Here are our recommended sites:

General

ABTAPL Association of British theological and philosophical libraries. Useful for researchers.

AGAPE – A database of Greek Patristics Editions.1465-1600 produced by the University of Geneva.

Colonial Religion - In British North America, the distinctive religious attachments of the thirteen independent colonies affected their colonization and development. Primary source material provided by the Digital Public Library of America.

Database of Religious History - encyclopaedia of religious cultural history.

Index Theologicus – International Bibliography of Theology and Religious Studies. A comprehensive bibliography for theology and religious studies which includes journal articles, monographs, databases and internet links. It is produced by the Universitatsbibliothek Tübingen and is free to search for the worldwide scholarly community.

Internet Sacred Text Archive – an online collection of religious texts. Includes full text of modern retellings of the Gospel of Buddha, texts from Southern Buddhism, the Jataka, Northern Budhhism, and miscellaneous texts from other eras; scriptures of the Shinto religion, as well as other texts that relate to the spirituality of Japan, such as Buddhism, Confucianism, Animism, and other themes; a collection of Ainu Texts; texts of the Scriptures, Gnosticism, Early Christian, Eastern Churches, Medieval, Renaissance and Reformation, as well as miscellaneous texts from the modern era.; the key texts of Confucianism, the traditional state religion of feudal China. These are some of the few Chinese texts which survived a disastrous book-burning in 213 B.C.E. by the Emperor Ch'in Shih Huang; full text of the Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas, Epics, Mahabharata, Ramayana, Bhagavad Gita, Vedanta, later texts, and additional primary texts from other eras.; public-domain editions of the Qur'an, Hadith, Sufi Texts, and miscellaneous texts from other eras up to the modern era; the Talmud, Tanakh, Kabbalah, and miscellaneous texts from other eras, including Flavius Josephus, Maimonides; other documents from the modern era.

Open Access Digital Theological Library– a virtual library for theology, religious studies, and related disciplines. Includes high quality content in religious studies and related disciplines from publisher websites, institutional repositories, and public domain collections.

RelBib – online bibliography for the study of religion.

Religion and the Founding of the American Republic A collection of primary source materials related to the role of religion in the founding of the United States.

Religious Minorities Online - is an academic resource on religious minorities worldwide, reflecting the state of the art in scholarship. It is written by leading scholars and is rigorously peer-reviewed.

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology

Voice of the Shuttle – Humanities website hosted by the University of California. Includes useful sites for philosophy and religious studies.

Christianity

Clergy of the Church of England Database – 1540-1835, records of clerical careers from over 50 archives in England and Wales from the Reformation to the mid-nineteenth century.

The Cult of Saints (ox.ac.uk) The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity database is making readily accessible and searchable as much as possible of the early evidence for the cult of Christian saints (up to around AD 700).

LUNA – Images from the collection of Lambeth Palace Library.

STEP (Scripture Tools for Every Person) – Created by Tyndale House, Cambridge, this resource is packed full of features to help people study the Bible text, from reading and comparing different versions of the Bible to grappling with original language words, through using word clouds to track themes as they unfold in the text.

Tyndale House – an international centre for biblical research which has a useful catalogue and web links.

Vatican Library Digital Collections Digitized manuscripts and incunabula from the collections of the Vatican Library, covering a wide range of topics, including religious texts.

Hinduism

Indian idylls, from the Sanskrit of the Mahâbhârata Svcavitrî ; or, Love and death -- Nala and Damayanti -- The enchanted lake -- The saint's temptation -- The birth of death -- The night of slaughter -- The great journey -- The entry into heaven.

Islam

Harvard Open Collections Program: Islamic Heritage Project Over 280 manuscripts, 275 printed texts, and 50 maps, totaling over 156,000 pages. Users can search or browse online materials that date from the 10th to the 20th centuries CE.

Al-Islam Comprehensive digital Islamic library (Shi'a).

IslamiCity Comprehensive digital Islamic library (Sunni).

Islam and Islamic Studies Resources From the University of Georgia, this site includes resources for studying Islam.

Judaism

British Association of Jewish Studies

Brown Judaic Studies - Open Access books from Brown University.

European Jewish Research Archive

Centropa – Preserving Jewish memory database.

Digital Dead Sea Scrolls Provides access to images of the Dead Sea Scrolls, offering valuable insights into ancient Jewish religious texts.

Jewish Women’s Archive

Parkes Institute – Centre for the study of Jewish/ non-Jewish relations.

RAMBI – Index of Jewish studies articles based on the collections of the National Library of Israel. Updated daily.

Sefaria – library of Jewish texts.

Yivo Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe

Yivo Institute for Jewish Research – online collections and archives. Includes rare books dating back to 1500, Yiddish children’s books and Hebrew language material

Philosophy

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy – A peer-reviewed academic source founded in 1995 to provide open access to detailed, scholarly information on key topics and philosophers in all areas of philosophy.

PhilPapers – Index and bibliography of philosophy papers by academics.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy – more than 1600 entries online. Each entry is maintained and kept up-to-date by an expert or group of experts in the field.

Library Guide - Theology, Philosophy and Religion