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Faith & Spirituality -- Religion -- Scholarly Resources -- Judaism -- Women of the Church
Stewardship -- All Things Liturgical -- Other Religions -- Persecution & The Church -- Stats & Sociology


Databases
Online Databases On Cults, Sects, New And Contemporary Religions: 'General information about particular new religions ... but be warned, some were set up by groups with their own biases...'

News
Worldwide Faith News: 'A data base of full text official news releases and other documents, including policy statements, from the news offices of national and world faith groups.'

Rural
Rural Church Party Line: 'This web site is about rural churches with big ideas for strengthening and uplifting small communities in social, economic and spiritual ways.'
Coastal Communities Network: 'Mission is to provide a forum to encourage dialogue, share information, and create strategies and actions that promote the survival and development of Nova Scotia's coastal and rural communities.'

Social Science
Social Science Data Archives - Europe: Provides social science data on 13 European nations.

Sociology
Sociology of Religion: 'Devoted to the social scientific study of religious groups.'

Stats
The American Religion Data Archive : 'Designed to gather and preserve quantitative data sets on American religion.'
Adherents.Com: 'A growing collection of over 46,000 adherent statistics and religious geography citations -- references to published membership/adherent statistics and congregation statistics for over 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, ultimate concerns, etc.'
Harvard Divinity School's Guide to Statistical References: 'An annotated bibliography of reference and other books on statistics in religion that may be of interest to members of the Harvard Divinity School community.'

Study Of Religion
Nurelweb sources for the study of cults, sects, new and historic religions: 'This website is dedicated to providing reliable information on complex and controversial topics from a scholarly perspective. Here you can find information about the definition of cult, sect, religion, new religious movements, myth, ritual, and a host of other issues.'
The Religious Movements Homepage At The University of Virginia: 'Gateway to comprehensive web-based as well as print resources about cults, sects, new religions, and religious movements, both new and established. This site includes profiles of more than 200 religious movements, plus link access to hundreds more groups.'
CESNUR - Center for Studies on New Religions: 'An international network of associations of scholars working in the field of new religious movement.'
Karla Poewe's Anthropology Website


Faith & Spirituality -- Religion -- Scholarly Resources -- Judaism -- Women of the Church
Stewardship -- All Things Liturgical -- Other Religions -- Persecution & The Church -- Stats & Sociology


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