Attention: Resources Needed!

[stafl]

Send me your resources! I want the names of any books, links to websites, etc. which you have found helpful or informative in context of your religious/spiritual journey, along with a very brief description of each. We are compiling a comprehensive list, and need information from all walks of life and different spiritual paths.

many thanks to AnnaReilly who has already compiled Pagan resources in a comprehensive list.

[stafl]

If you have anything to add to the list, let me know.

So far, I have absolutely no links or books regarding Judaism or Islam.

For Pagan resources, check out these two threads:
http://www.mothering.com/discussions...d.php?t=101320
http://www.mothering.com/discussions...ad.php?t=24834


Directory of Religious Centers in the US
It does not include information on Christian or Jewish centers, as these can be readily found in the local phonebook; however, it does include listings for Buddhist, Hindu, Jain, Taoist, and Zoroastrian Temples and Centers, as well as Baha'i and Pagan Centers, Islamic Centers and Masajid, and Sikh Gurdwaras.
http://www.pluralism.org/directory/index.php

Unitarian Universalism
http://www.uua.org

(Secular) Humanism
The Philosophy of Humanism by Corliss Lamont
Existentialism is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sarte
http://www.secularhumanism.org/
http://www.humanism.org/
http://www.humanism.org.uk/site/cms/
http://www.americanhumanist.org/index.html


Atheism
http://www.atheists.org/
http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/
http://www.positiveatheism.org/
http://www.origins.org/menus/atheism.html


Naturalistic Spirituality -
World Pantheist Movement "aims to provide a spiritual and social "home base" for people who love Nature and the Universe but do not believe in supernatural entities."
http://www.pantheism.net/

[stafl]

Christianity Resources

Directory of over 90,000 Christian websites:
http://www.botcw.com/index.html


African Methodist Episcopal Church http://www.ame-today.com/

African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church http://www.theamezionchurch.org/

American Baptist Churches in the USA http://www.abc-usa.org/

Anglican Communion:
Anglicans Online http://anglicansonline.org/
Episcopal Church in the USA http://www.ecusa.anglican.org/
Anglican Domain Committee http://anglican.org/
They have links to all known Anglican web sites at http://anglican.org/official/

Assemblies of God http://www.ag.org/

Baptist Bible Fellowship International http://www.bbfi.org/

Canadian Evangelical Christian Churches http://www.cecconline.org/

Christian Churches / Churches of Christ http://www.cwv.edu/

Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) http://www.disciples.org/

Christian Methodist Episcopal Church http://www.c-m-e.org/

Church of Christ, Scientist http://www.tfccs.org

Church of God in Christ http://www.cogic.org/

Church of God (Cleveland TN) http://www.chofgod.org/

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
www.lds.org
www.mormon.org
http://www.jefflindsay.com/LDSFAQ/
http://ldsfaq.byu.edu/

Church of the Nazarene http://www.nazarene.org/

Churches of Christ http://www.church-of-christ.org/

Eastern Orthodox
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America http://www.goarch.org/
Orthodox Church in America http://www.oca.org/

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America http://www.elca.org/

Jehovah's Witnesses http://www.watchtower.org/

Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod http://www.lcms.org/

National Baptist Convention http://www.nationalbaptist.com/
Youth and Children's Convention http://members.aol.com/nbyc1/

National Missionary Baptist Convention of America
http://www.natl-missionarybaptist.com/

Pentecostal Assemblies of the World http://members.tripod.com/paw_inc/

Presbyterian Church (USA) http://www.pcusa.org/

Progressive National Baptist Convention http://www.pnbc.org/

Roman Catholic
The official Vatican site http://www.vatican.va/
The Douay-Rhimes Catholic Bible http://drbo.org/
General Information Sites http://cin.org/, http://www.newadvent.org/,
http://www.catholic.net/
Conservative Catholic Newspaper http://seattlecatholic.com/
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops http://www.nccbuscc.org/
Traditional Catholic Group http://www.fssp.org/
Site of Catholic Prayers http://www.yenra.com/catholic/prayers/
Site to find Mass times http://www.masstimes.org/dotNet/
Good places to buy Catholic goods http://www.tanbooks.com/,
http://leafletmissal.org/

Seventh Day Adventists http://www.adventist.org/

Southern Baptist Convention http://www.sbc.net/sbcsplash/

United Church of Christ http://www.ucc.org/

United Methodist Church http://www.umc.org/

[DaryLLL]

http://jewfaq.org/

"Judaism 101"

[merpk]

The FAQ sites ...

JewFaq site
Eliezer Segal's most interesting info site
Jewish Virtual Library



The merpk's assorted-off-the-top-of-my-head sites ...

Site dedicated to my rebbe
Olam Journal
Meaningful Life Center ... R' Simon Jacobson's site
Chabad/Lubavitch Khassidus site for women
Kabbalah and Khassidus ... R' Yitzkhak Ginzburg's site
Jews4Judaism ... Anti-missionary site
CLAL site ... an interdenominational "think tank"
Shema Yisroel Torah Network site
The Books of the People of the Book (in the original language)






The various other denominational/Jewish streams sites ...

Aleph: The Alliance for Jewish Renewal
Elat Chayyim Jewish Spiritual Retreat Center (affiliated with Aleph)
United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
Jewish Reconstructionist Federation
Union for Reform Judaism

[indie]

A few Christian sites off the top of my head:

Christians for Biblical Equality
Sojourners Magazine (social justice)
Gender Justice and Churches of Christ
Relevant Magazine

[Village Mama]

http://www.khamush.com/forum/index.php

[stafl]

Originally Posted by Village Mama

http://www.khamush.com/forum/index.php

that would be a Rumi and Sufism discussion forum

thanks!

[Arduinna]

Sanatana Dharma (Hinduism)

Living with Shiva, Hinduisms Contemporary Culture
http://www.himalayanacademy.com/boo...f_contents.html

The Vedas, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali ect http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/index.htm

http://www.hindunet.org/

[stafl]

T for future reference, if I ever want to post a thread but don't want anyone to read it, just make it a sticky :LOL

[Arduinna]

well I didn't even see it until it was unstuck and you got a little testy, LOL

[sandrajoon]

The Baha'i Faith


www.bahai.org

For access to all the Sacred literature of the Baha'i Faith and the other major world religions:
http://www.bahai-education.org/ocean/


Central Texts include:

The Book of Certitude, The Hidden Words &The Book of Laws, all revealed by Baha'u'llah.

[stafl]

thread's gotten 80 hits since I unstuck it... Only five hits all day yesterday, and two of those were probably me.

[DaryLLL]

Internet Infidels

"We want to uphold the dignity of humanity and to encourage the avid pursuit of philosophy and the scientific enterprise. Our adopted mission is to defend and promote a naturalistic worldview on the Internet. To that end we publish the very best secular essays, papers, articles and reviews. We also stand as a bulwark against the forces of superstition, especially the radical religious right, whose proponents would have us fear knowledge rather than embrace it.

With over 8,000 documents and more than 300,000 unique visitors per month, the Secular Web is the largest and most heavily visited nontheistic website on the Internet."

homepage:

http://www.infidels.org/index.shtml

discussion boards:

http://www.iidb.org/vbb/index.php

[DaryLLL]

Books I have read on Biblical criticism/history:

Saving the Bible from Fundamentalism- Anglican Bishop John Shelby Spong (and he has written several other books)

The Jesus Mysteries and

Jesus and the Lost Goddess- Freke and Gandy

The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man- Robert Price

The Other Bible- ed. by Wills Barnstone (selection of gnostic books, dead sea scrolls, Jewish and Xtian apocrypha, etc)

The New Oxford Annotated Bible

The History of God and

The Battle for God- both by Armstrong

The Woman with the Alabaster Jar- Starbird

Mary Magdalene: Christianity's Hidden Goddess- Picknett

The Bible Unearthed- Finkelstein and Silberman

Holy Blood Holy Grail- Baigent, Leigh, Lincoln (proceed with caution, it's been partly debunked)

The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity- Maccoby

The Hebrew Goddess- Patai

When God was a Woman- Stone

The Gnostic Gospels and

Adam, Eve and the Serpent and

The Origins of Satan- all by Pagels

Lost Christianities- Ehrman


comparative mythology:

The Hero with a Thousand Faces and

The Power of Myth- Joseph Campbell

for fun

The Da Vinci Code- Brown

websites:

http://home.earthlink.net/~pgwhacker/ChristianOrigins/

or

http://www.entheology.org/POCM/pagan...g_started.html

The Pagan Origins of the Christ Myth (this one is fun and easy to read, lots of pictures)

http://www.humanists.net/jesuspuzzle/home.htm Earl Doherty's Jesus Puzzle site

http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/ Peter Kirby's site

www.gnosis.org Exhaustive site on Gnosticism

http://www.iidb.org/vbb/forumdisplay.php?f=60 Biblical Criticism and History

[Calm]

Buddhism and Spiritual Journeys

Buddhism.

www.buddhanet.net
Very good for beginners, huge site, very informative, online courses.

http://www.lioncity.net/buddhism/
Forum for Buddhism.

"Buddhism for mothers" by Sarah Napthali
Beautiful book for spirituality and motherhood, anger management and compassion.

All books by Dalai Lama esp. "The Art of Happiness"

All Books by Lama Surya Das (American Lama), esp "Awakening the Buddha Within"
Very good for layman reading and for everyday spiritual awakening, not just wholly Buddhist.

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
NOT layman reading; very in depth yet amazing, eye opening book. Highly recommended.

Spiritual Journeys

"The Way of the Peaceful Warrior" Dan Millman - Brilliant spiritual journey.

"Why Walk on Water When you can Take the Boat" By John H (can't remember author's name, have to look it up)

All books by Deepak Chopra esp, "How to know God"

[stafl]

Islam resources

Have all our Muslim Mamas left mdc?

I will try to find some links, but I can't vouch for their contents or accuracy or anything...

http://www.islamworld.net/

http://www.islamicity.com/

http://www.islam-guide.com/ - page for non-Muslims who would like to understand Islam

http://www.islam.com/

http://www.islam101.com/ - "Islam 101 is an educational site on Islam, its way of life, civilization and culture. The website not only presents Islamic beliefs, but also contains articles on human relations in Islam. It also includes an introductory course on Islam and presents Islamic views on contemporary issues."

http://www.noi.org/ - official nation of islam website

[kavamamakava]

Hare Krishnas (a Hindu sect)
http://www.iskcon.com/about/index.html

Books would be Bhagavad Gita As It Is, Srimad Bhavagatam, Caitanya Caritamrita ...for the most part.

I also really enjoy this site for all the information about the many divine entities in Hinduism and how and why they are worshipped. http://www.templenet.com/

Caroline Myss, PhD has written some non-denominational books on spirituality which seem to combine philosophies:
Anatomy of the Spirit (I've read this and really enjoyed it)
Positive Energy
Sacred Contracts

[DaryLLL]

stafl, this is a great thread

Muslims against violence, organized by our very own goodcents:

http://www.mothering.com/discussions...79#post1993179

[stafl]

can't believe I forgot...
www.religioustolerance.org - for basic information regarding just about any religion you can think of.