You may find these sites helpful for clarification and deeper understanding. Everything you ever wanted to know about religion, religions, religious studies - background, beliefs, practices. Also good for finding discussions on all sorts of religion topics - ancient, modern, controversial. Good for preparing for exams or writing papers. Some sites are just fun!

Comprehensive Religion Sites:

• Virtual Religions Index (outstanding source!)
• BBC Religion (excellent, coherent site for topics in religion)
• Voice of The Shuttle
• Religion Explorer-Religion Search Engine
• Religion Gateway
• Religious Worlds
• Beliefnet.com
• Religion and Ethics (transcripts of weekly ABC news program)

Facts, facts, facts about religion:

• Adherents.com (how many Buddhists are there?)
• Big Religion Chart
• CIA Worldfactbook

Academic Religion sites:

• ASU Dept. of Religious Studies
  
• The American Academy of Religion
• Librarians Index - Religion
• MCC Library

Other:

• Bible Gateway (find Scriptures in multiple translations)
• Adherents.com/movies

For hundreds more sites, visit our department's Religious Studies links page.