Religious Databases

Browse and search the modern language Bible translation of your choice.

Free access: 65 journal titles (Biblical studies), "18,000 articles" full-text.

ACL Librarians created a list of free biblical studies general resources.

"The Blue Letter Bible now has over 4,000,000 links onsite to over 165,000 pages of concordances, lexicons, dictionaries, commentaries, images, and Bible versions! Our prayer is that you will enjoy the site, in Jesus' name! " Home page

Encyclopedia of Religion and Society - William H. Swatos, Jr. Editor

Faith and Philosophy is the journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers. It is provided open-access by the SCP so that the best of contemporary Christian philosophy and philosophy of religion is available to all.

"GAMEO provides Reliable information on Anabaptist-related (Amish, Mennonite, Hutterite, Brethren in Christ) topics, including history, theology, biography, institutions and local congregations. Secular topics from an Anabaptist perspective and full-text source documents are also included." Home Page

This website contains the complete contents of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, which was originally published between 1901-1906. The Jewish Encyclopedia, which recently became part of the public domain, contains over 15,000 articles and illustrations. This online version contains the unedited contents of the original encyclopedia.

"The NET Bible [Preface]:

"The NET Bible is a completely new translation of the Bible with 60,932 translators’ notes! It was completed by more than 25 scholars - experts in the original biblical languages - who worked directly from the best currently available Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts."

"Original Preface. The Catholic Encyclopedia, as its name implies, proposes to give its readers full and authoritative information on the entire cycle of Catholic interests, action and doctrine." Home Page

This site's unique tool allows the user to select different religions and conduct a comparison on backgrounds and beliefs.

"Based on interviews with more than 35,000 American adults, this extensive survey by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life details the religious makeup, religious beliefs and practices as well as social and political attitudes of the American public." Home Page

"This site has information on topics with patron saints, and profiles of those saints. Profiles have portraits, biographical information, areas of patronage, prayers, links to related sites, readings, etc. It’s not complete - I keep finding new topics, there are thousands of saints not yet listed, and there’s lots of information to add, so the site will continue to grow and change." Home Page

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