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The Wabash Center Guide to Internet Resources for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion is a selective, annotated guide to a wide variety of electronic resources of interest to those who are teaching or studying religion and theology at the undergraduate or graduate level.
The Guide is organized into three distinct browsing lists:
Subject Headings
including various aspects of religion, distinct religious traditions, and religions organized by geographic area;
Personal Headings
listing significant theologians and philosophers, both in alphabetical and chronological order;
Material Types
organizing the websites into carefully parsed “genres:” e.g., images, listserv discussion groups, official web pages of religious bodies, etc.
Most websites are classified under several categories.
Browse by clicking on one of these topics, and the results screen will list all the sites in that category with a brief annotation, a listing of all the topics under which it is located, and a classification of the site into one of these 6 types of materials:
syllabi
electronic texts
electronic journals
images
bibliographies
other websites
Search within results by typing key terms into the search box at the top of the results page. You may also limit your results by one of the 6 types of materials listed above.
Top Site marks the sites which the Guide’s maintainer considers to be better than average, in terms of resources that are useful for teaching and learning in theology and religion. Those sites that do not have this mark are still of good quality, or they would not have been listed. The Top Site designation serves as a further step of quality control, to lead those who are pressed for time to the best resources as quickly as possible.
Criteria for Selecting Sites:
- Useful, significant content (sites which offer primary texts, scholarly journal articles, bibliographies, and so forth, are looked on with favor; sites which merely offer links to other sites are only useful if they are well organized and provide leads to significant content)
- Institutional origin (this is not an absolute rule, though it is often the case that a site sponsored by an institution is of higher quality than a site offered by a single individual)
- Active maintenance
- Free access (sites which try to collect money from visitors are rarely linked to from this site)
- Good web page design (sites with garish backgrounds, pop up windows, confusing navigation, flashing words, unnecessary use of frames and graphics, unidentified authorship, etc., may be excluded on that account)
- Correct spelling and grammar (sites which say: "I hope to peek your interest in the main tenants of my moral principals ..." etc. are looked on with disfavor)
- English language (most, but not all, of the sites linked to here are in English)
Disclaimer: The presence of a link within this Guide does not imply an endorsement of the contents of that site by the Wabash Center or the maintainer of this Guide. The contents of some sites may offend the religious feelings of some people. The possibility that a site may cause offense is not one of the criteria that are used for placing or not placing links on any particular page within this Guide.
Suggest A Link
If you are responsible for maintaining a site linked to here and would like to report a change, click on "Suggest a Link" on any page in the Guide.
This guide is created and maintained by:
Charles Bellinger (M.S.L.S. University of Illinois, Ph.D. University of Virginia), Theological Librarian and Associate Professor of Theology and Ethics at Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth, Texas. Dr. Bellinger does not have time to assist people with homework assignments.
Funding from the Lilly Endowment has made this project possible.
This guide is a service to the academic community provided by the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion, Nadine Pence, Director: WabashCenter@Wabash.edu
Further information on the creation of this guide:
Charles Bellinger. "The Creation of the Wabash Center Internet Guide." Journal of Religious and Theological Information 3/3-4 (2001): 87-96. Published simultaneously in Theological Librarians and the Internet: Implications for Practice, edited by Mark Stover, 87-96. New York: Haworth Press, 2001.
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