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General Sites
University of Wolverhampton
Designed to complement this site, the University of Wolverhampton's "Religious Studies on the Internet" concentrates on World Religions rather than new religions, it does, however, have some interesting information and advice for those studying religions on the internet.
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia's "New Religious Movements" web site carries a great deal of valuable information for those with many different interests in religious movements. In particular it carries special sections on anti-cult groups, the importance of religious freedom, and on the nature of contemporary religious broadcasting. The site is designed to work in conjunction with Prof. Jeffrey K. Hadden's Sociology of Religion course at the University. Of particular interest are the profiles of individual movements which have been written by undergraduate students and are uniformly of high quality. In addition, the site provides the reader with many hyperlinks to other appropriate sites.
Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
The Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance are a group dedicated to promoting tolerance and understanding of a broad cross-section of religion beliefs and practices. They stress their tolerance of a religious belief, their intolerance of those who seek to deny the freedom and/or human rights of others, and the inclusiveness of their material. They provide an on-line library of hundreds of essays written by volunteers. The pages explaining their approach are of interest in themselves. OCRT concentrate on a number of important new religious movements, and provide a useful glossary for those unsure about the many different descriptions that such groups tend to attract.
American Academy of Religion
Gives details of the groups itself and its activities. Also provides a number of useful hyperlinks to other organisations and sites of particular interest.
University of Calgary (temporarily supended)
Nurel is the site created by Prof. Irving Hexham. It is most comprehensive and unique in nature. Of particular interest may be specific pages on African religions, charismatics, cults, sects and new religions, cult experts, religion in Germany, and Glastonbury. The site provides the read with many hyperlinks to other relevant sites and bibliographical information, including specialist databases.
University of Washington
The Comparative Religion Index at the University of Washington is a very comprehensive mega-site which provides information and links for all the World Religions and well as smaller groups.
Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR)
CESNUR is based in Torino, Italy and is a non-denominational and international network of scholars. It is maintained by Massimo Introvigne, and has useful links and on-line articles.
National Science Academy of Ukraine/National University of Kyiv/Ukrainian Religion Researches Association
Informative and Consultative Centre on New Religious Movements
Collaborative project concentrating on movements in the Ukraine itself
Stile Project at Loughborough University
http://www.stile.lut.ac.uk/~gyobs/GLOBAL/t0000189.html
Although this project has ended, it has left sites posted. Although short there is a rather useful list of NRM research organisations here.
Syzygy
Home-page of Syzygy: Journal of Alternative Religion and Culture. Provides index of articles and book reviews since its inception in 1992.
Millennium Watch Institute.
This site looks at some of the more public expressions of millennialism involving new religious movements. It is not impartial but more balanced than many sites.
Coombesweb Social Sciences Server (Australian National University) (temporarily suspended).
http://coombes.anu.edu.au/CoombesHome.html
Excellent site for information on Australasian and Asian movements.
The APS Research Guide - Theology and Religion #1.
http://www.utoronto.ca/stmikes/theobook.htm
Extensive selection of links to Theological sites covering most Christian traditions.
Synchronicity 2000/ Chris Mastrangelo
http://www.mcs.drexel.edu/~gcmastra/strange2K.html#lynx
A site with many links maintained by Chris Mastrangelo in Washington, DC, dealing with millenial movements and other exotica.
http://www.mcs.drexel.edu/~gcmastra/strange1.html
This has Chris Mastrangelo's links to "weird sites" - a useful source.
Gene. R. Thursby (temporarily suspended).
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/newrelig.htm
Site with links to many other sites about NRMs. Also to discussion forums and scholarly journals. Focuses on movements of Indian origin, and anti-cult & cult recovery groups.
Washington Post Archive (temporarily suspended).
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/documents/heavensgate/data/a35-soul.htm
Good archive of news coverage on Heaven's Gate, and other movements that have attracted media attention.The Electric Library (temporarily suspended).
Good search engine for finding wide variety of materials from various media, including academic journals, magazines, newspapers, and transcripts of radio and TV programmes - and government reports. Very quick site
Harvard Theological Library (temporarily suspended).
http://divweb.harvard.edu/library/index.htm
Good links to Theology and Religious Studies sites, bibliographies, and other academic resources - quite comprehensive.
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