Online Resources: General

The Pluralism Project

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The Pluralism Project was developed by Diana L. Eck at Harvard University to study and document the growing religious diversity of the United States, with a special view to its new immigrant religious communities.

The web site features research, news, teaching resources, images, religious calendars, events, and publications.

Sacred Texts

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A free archive of the sacred texts of major world religions. Texts are presented in English translation and, in some cases, in the original language.

The sacred-texts.com site is devoted to religious tolerance and scholarship.

NAIN: North American Interfaith Network

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The North American Interfaith Network is a non-profit association of interfaith organizations and agencies in Canada, Mexico and the United States.

NAIN's programs seek to build communication and mutual understanding among interfaith organizations and diverse religious groups throughout North America.

Through its annual conference, newsletter, web site, member organizations, Board and supportive participants, NAIN offers networking opportunities to person of many religious traditions and numerous interfaith organizations.

NAIN affirms humanity's diverse and historic spiritual resources, bringing these to bear on contemporary global, national, regional and local issues. Without infringing on the effort of existing organizations, NAIN facilitates the networking possibilities of these organizations. NAIN encourages cooperative interaction based on serving the needs and promoting the aspirations of all member groups.

NAIN: Interfaith Web Sites

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A selection of Interfaith web sites and Online Indices with brief annotations.

NAIN: Religion & World Religions Web Sites

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Internet sites for Comparative Religious Studies and World Religions. Compiled by James T. Cloud, Editor, The Sacred Books Library (CD-ROM) and Director of the Multifaith Institute. The site includes links to:

• General and Academic Sites
• African Religions
• Baha'i Faith
• Buddhism
• Christianity
• Confucianism
• Hinduism
• Islam
• Jainis
• Judaism
• Native American
• Shinto
• Sikhism
• Taoism
• Unitarian Universalist
• Wicca, Pagan
• Zoroastrianism