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Information about various religions

Below are the beginnings of what I hope will eventually become a comprehensive collection of references on the religions of the world.

1. The Abrahamic religions
2. Other major world religions
3. Some other ancient and traditional religions
4. Modern Western occultism and neo-Paganism
5. Some other modern Western religions, worldviews, etc.
6. General resources on religion

1. The Abrahamic religions
   • Judaism (including Kabbalah)
   • Christianity
   • Islam (including Sufism)

   
   

2. Other major world religions
   • African and African Diaspora religions (Vodun, Santeria, etc.)
   • Hinduism (including Tantra)
   • Buddhism (including Zen)
   • Chinese traditions (e.g. Confucianism and Taoism)

   
   

3. Some other ancient and traditional religions
   • American Indian religions
   • Ancient European polytheistic religions
   • Ancient Middle Eastern polytheistic religions
   • Asian and Pacific indigenous religions (including Shinto)
   • Gnosticism (including Hermeticism, alchemy, and the Cathars)
   • Yezidism
   • Zoroastrianism, Mithraism, and Manichaeism

   
   

4. Modern Western occultism and neo-Paganism
   • Ceremonial Magic (Golden Dawn, Thelema, Chaos Magic, etc.)
   • Norse/Germanic Pagan Reconstructionism
   • Other Pagan Reconstructionism
   • Theosophy (Helena P. Blavatsky)
   • Wicca and related neo-Paganisms

   
   

5. Some other modern Western religions, worldviews, etc.
   • Atheism, agnosticism, and Humanism
   • Deism
   • Objectivism (Ayn Rand)
   • Pantheism
   • Unitarianism/Universalism

   
   

6. General resources on religion
   • Theology on Reasoned.org
   • Religion Gateway on Academic Info
   • Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
   • Religion Religions Religious Studies and New Religious Movements Group, maintained by Gene R. Thursby at the University of Florida
   • Virtual Religion Index (including Comparative study of religions) by the Religion Department at Rutgers University
   • Religious Movements Homepage at the University of Virginia.   (Some links on the main page don't work. See also Religious Group Profile Pages and Sitemap.)
   • Internet Sacred Texts Archive
   • Religious Studies Web Guide by Saundra Lipton (University of Calgary Library) and Cheryl Adams (Library of Congress), including a list of General Resources
   • David Wiley's religion archive, including sacred texts of many religions
   • Adherents.com - statistics on religions worldwide
   • Alternative Religions on About.com
   • World mythology resources
   • Encyclopedia Mystica
   • Library of online Western Esoterica on The Hermetics Resource site
   • Kheper (list of topics here)
   • Psyche's links - Esoteric Subjects on the Web
   • Galaxy religion index

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