Religious Studies: Religion in America

• H-AmRel - History of American Religion
  A member of H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine. Engaged in scholarly discussion of religion in American society from pre-colonial times to present, H-AmRel is a premier resource for academics, clergy, and librarians alike. This site includes a good selection of Internet links, discussion logs from its listserv, book reviews, and course syllabi.
  
  
• Religion in America - Academic Info
  A Directory of Internet Resources for the Study of Religion in the United States. Good, often-updated, comprehensive list of scholarly web resources.

• American Colonist's Library - A Treasury of Primary Documents
  An extensive selection of primary source documents relating to early American history, religion, politics, and culture.
  
  
• American Religious Experience
  A collaborative effort involving the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Louisiana State University, and West Virginia University, this project offers students of American religion and culture a publication forum for their academic projects. Read more about it in an issues of Religious Studies News
  
  
• The Church in the Southern Black Community - Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries
  Primary source documents which trace how Southern African Americans experienced Protestant Christianity.
  
  
• Finding Common Ground - Charles C. Haynes, First Amendment Center scholar-in-residence.
  The front page for a collection of documents by Charles Haynes including Finding Common Ground: A First Amendment Guide to Religion and Public Education.
  
  
• Material History of American Religion Project
  The Material History of American Religion Project studies the history of American religion in all its complexity by focusing on material objects and economic themes. Working with religious leaders, it helps contemporary religious communities with their economic concerns by placing those concerns within an historical context. Finally, the Project encourages further investigations into the religious lives of Americans by paying attention to material and economic questions. This web site maintains a collection of Objects and Documents found by their scholars which represent the material aspect of religion in America. It also provides web links of interest.
  
  
• Religion - Freedom Forum Online
  The Freedom Forum is a nonpartisan, international foundation dedicated to free press, free speech and free spirit for all people. The Religion section links to recent news articles, court cases, and editorial columns concerning freedom of religion.
  
  
• Religion and the Founding of the American Republic - Library of Congress
  Encompassing over 200 objects including early American books, manuscripts, letters, prints, paintings, artifacts, and music from the Library's collections and complemented by loans from other institutions, Religion and the Founding of the American Republic explores the role religion played in the founding of the American colonies, in the shaping of early American life and politics, and in forming the American Republic.

• ARDA - American Religion Data Archive
  The American Religion Data Archive collects quantitative data sets for the study of American religion. The ARDA was established to meet four goals: preserve data, improve access to data, increase the use of data, and allow comparisons across data files. Web site allows archives to be dowloaded and provides free software to do so.
  
  

• Center for the Study of Religion in America - Princeton University
  The Center for the Study of American Religion has the basic goal of furthering scholarship on religion in North America, primarily by advancing, consolidating, and extending the training of the next generation of scholars concerned with understanding its historical legacy and contemporary dynamics.
  
  
• Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture
  A research and public outreach institute devoted to the promotion of the understanding of the relation between religion and other features of American culture.
  
  
• Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life - Trinity College, Hartford CT
  Established in 1996, the Center seeks to advance understanding of the roles religious movements, institutions, and ideas play in today's world. Their projects include a Pew Program on Religion in the News Media, conferences, and the Religious History Project.
  
  
• Center on Religion and Democracy - University of Virginia
  From their web page:
  "The Center on Religion and Democracy is a politically non-partisan research center at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, committed to addressing the complex relationship between religion and democratic culture. Although the Center's principle goal will always be the pursuit of knowledge through objective, non-partisan scholarship, such a quest should hardly be merely academic. It is our commitment help bridge the gap between theory and practice, to make the critical insights and resources of this center available to everyone concerned with the challenges of the day."
  
  
• Philadelphia Center for Religion and Science
  The Philadelphia Center for Religion and Science (PCRS) seeks to promote education, research, and outreach on religion and science issues in the Delaware Valley and beyond through lectures, publications, courses, conferences, dialogues, and electronic media.
  
  
• Pluralism Project - Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University
  Developed by Diana L. Eck to study and document the growing religions diversity of the United States. The site includes links to news, links to various religious traditions, and a searchable online Directory of Religious Centers.

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