Research & teaching
Internet for Religious Studies
Excellent tutorial designed to help students navigate around the vast amounts of information on the Internet.
World Lecture Hall (Browse by Religious Studies)
Links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver course materials.
Resources for teachers
Guide to Internet Resources for Teaching and Learning in Theology & Religion
Wide variety of electronic resources of interest to those who are teaching or studying religion and theology at the undergraduate or graduate level. Produced by Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology & Religion.
Project DigiIslam
Project led by the University of Exeter on user requirements for digitised resources in Islamic studies, including the full text of the project report.
Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies: Higher Education Academy An academic UK-based forum where those teaching Religious Studies in a variety of contexts can pool their expertise and share their experience with other teachers.
Syllabus Project for Religion An American Academy of Religion Project which aims to make course syllabi for religious studies available online.
Teaching Islamic Civilization with Information Technology Still very relevant article taken from the Journal for Multimedia History, 1998 and written by Corinne Blake. Discusses how academics can use the Internet to find primary and secondary sources for students to evaluate with links to many useful web-sites.
Specific teaching materials for SOAS students
- Morgan, P. The Authority of Believers in the Study of Religions. DISKUS Vol.4, 1 (1996).
- Kant, I. What is enlightenment?
- Fitzgerald, T. Religious Studies as Cultural Studies: a Philosophical and Anthropological Critique of the Concept of Religion. DISKUS, Vol. 3, 1 (1995).
- Griffiths, PJ. The Very Idea of Religion. (Response to Fitzgerald and others).
- McKenzie, P. Otto, Wach and Heiler: towards a systematic phenomenology of religion. DISKUS, Vol. 2, no. 1 (1994).
- Frazer, J.G (1922). The Golden Bough.
- Articles from Postmodern Culture an online journal of interdisciplinary thought on contemporary cultures. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Finding God in Cyberspace - collection of online articles and links to religions. Christian emphasis.
