Web Resources & Archives

SSSR/RRA Archives Created by Jeffery Hadden. This site contains information about past SSSR/RRA meetings, as well as minutes, reports and other archival materials.

Hartford Institute for Religion Research Administered by Scott Thumma, this site has extensive resources for the social scientific study of religion, including online articles, religious statistics, research resources, and links to the web pages of many scholars working in the fields of sociology of religion and religion research.

• Bibliographic Resources A 35,000 entry searchable database of nearly all major works in the sociology of religion online. Originated by Tony Blasi.
• Sociologists of Religion This alphabetic list of sociologists of religion compiled and maintained by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research, also includes people from other academic disciplines who engage in social scientific research of religious phenomena.

American Religion Data Archive Created by Roger Finke, Pennsylvania State University, supported by the Lilly Endowment. This site makes a number of data sets on American religion available to researchers.

Association of the Sociology of Religion The Association for the Sociology of Religion (ASR) is an international scholarly association that seeks to advance theory and research in the sociology of religion.

British Association for the Study of Religions (BASR), formerly the British Association for the History of Religions (founded in 1954), is affiliated to the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR), whose object is the promotion of the academic study of religions through the international collaboration of all scholars whose research has a bearing on the subject. The BASR pursues these aims within the United Kingdom through the arrangement of conferences and symposia, the publication of a Bulletin and an Annual General Meeting.

Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University This Center has been conducting applied social science research on the Catholic Church since 1964. The site includes links to CARA publications and current research, as well as an index of its quarterly newsletter, published since 1995.

Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life Supported by grants from the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Lilly Endowment, at Trinity College. This site contains a range of resources relevant to religion and the press, religion and politics, and related issues.

CESNUR Center for Studies on New Religions This site, created by Massimo Intiovigne contains a wealth of information on new religious movements throughout the world.

Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures (EWIC) Scholars Database. The EWIC Scholars Database is an invaluable listeng of over 3,000 scholars from all over the world and from all disciplines whose work focuses on women, gender, and islamic cultures from a broad culturally-based rather than theologically-based perspective. Funded by a grant from the International Development Research Center.

International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR) The International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR) serves to promote the academic study of religions through the international collaboration of all scholars whose research has a bearing on the subject.

International Society for the Sociology of Religion The International Society for the Sociology of Religion aims to advance knowledge in the sociology of religion and in all the related fields of the social sciences.

Louisville Institute The Louisville Institute is a Lilly Endowment program for the study of American religion based at Louisville Seminary. The Louisville Institute offers funding through a number of grant programs designed to assist different groups of institutions and individuals in furthering its mission to enrich the religious life of American Christians and to encourage the revitalization of their institutions.

New Religion Movements Created by Jeffery Hadden, University of Virginia. This site contains profiles of a number of new religious movements, as well as links to official NRM pages, anti-cult pages and scholarly sources on NRM's.

New Religious Movements Links Published by Graduate Theological Union Library. This site contains links to a variety of sites on New Religious Movements.

PARAL is a network of scholars committed to a comparative study of religion among the people of Latin American heritage living in the United States. Working through task forces and funding for specific projects, PARAL seeks to enrich the understanding of religion's impact on Latinos and Latinas.

The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life seeks to promote a deeper understanding of issues at the intersection of religion and public affairs.

As part of its mission to explore the role religion plays in American public life, the Pew Forum develops and releases an annual survey on religion and public life. In addition, the Forum periodically commissions shorter polls on particularly timely issues. Many of the surveys listed below are joint projects of the Pew Forum and the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.

Psychology of Religion Page By Michael W. Nielsen, Georgia Southern University. This site features a wide range of resources on the psychology of religion.

Religious Research Association Maintained by Scott Thumma of Hartford Seminary. This is the web site of our sister organization.

Religion-online.org This site includes the full text of works by religious studies scholars.

Religious Freedom Created by Jeffrey Hadden, University of Virginia. This site contains information on religious freedom throughout the world.

Journal of Contemporary Religion is an international journal concerned with the discussion and analysis of contemporary aspects of religion, focusing on significant trends, developments, and processes of the past 20-30 years.

Wabash Center The Wabash Center seeks to strengthen and enhance the teaching and learning of theology an religion in higher education settings in the United States and Canada. This site includes information on grant opportunities designed to further this mission.

WorldWide Religious News This is a searchable data base of religious news throughout the world. It is especially strong with regard to information about new religious movements and religious freedom issues.