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Religion News Service is a journalism site that covers religion and public life, reporting on faith communities, religious liberty, ethics, and how religion intersects with politics and culture. It provides up-to-date news articles, features, and analysis, plus commentary on religious topics from around the world.
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The Religious Studies Project
Weekly interview podcast in which scholars of religion discuss theory, method, and specific traditions. Listening gives you a working map of the field's debates and the researchers currently shaping how religion is studied academically.
iep.utm.edu/religion
The Religion page on the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy provides a concise, peer‑reviewed overview of religion from a philosophical standpoint, covering definitions, the nature and variety of religion, major debates, and key concepts and figures in philosophy of religion.
BBC Religions
Archived BBC reference covering twenty traditions - including Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Judaism, Shinto, Jainism, Zoroastrianism, Rastafari, and atheism - with sections on beliefs, history, practices, ethics, and holy days for each, written for newcomers comparing faiths.
aarweb.org
American Academy of Religion (AAR) is the professional association for religious studies scholars; the site offers information on membership, conferences, and scholarly publications, plus teaching resources and other member services for researchers and educators.
Studying Religion: An Introduction
McCutcheon introduces the academic study of religion as a scholarly construction rather than a self-evident thing, working through key terms like myth, ritual, and belief. Readers finish able to question how the category religion is defined.
A History of God
Karen Armstrong traces how Jews, Christians and Muslims have imagined God over four thousand years, from Abraham through philosophy, mysticism, the Reformation and modern atheism. Readers see how conceptions of the divine shifted with historical and cultural circumstances across the three monotheisms.