Websites for Studying Religions
If you are interested in world religion, here are some places on the web that have sacred texts, explanations of belief and facts about five major faiths.
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There are plenty of online resources for the amateur student of world religion. Whether you would like to know more about the history of your own faith or you are curious about religion in general, these are a good places to start.
Understanding other religions can go a long way toward facilitating peace and brotherhood. The key is to approach the study of faith with a clean slate. It is not a good idea to try to understand one faith solely by relating it to another.
Christianity
Christianity is the world’s largest religion, with an estimated 1.5 to 2.1 million adherents. It began as a sect of Judaism in the Middle East. It has 34,000 denominations. It’s main text includes the Holy Bible.
Judaism
Judaism has been around for 3 millenia. It’s main text is the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible) which is elaborated upon in the Talmud. It is estimated that there are 11 million Jews worldwide.
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Islam
People who practice Islam are called Muslims. There are 1.3 to 1.8 billion Muslims worldwide. The main text of the Islamic faith is the Qu’ran (Koran).
University of Southern California Muslim Texts
Gutenberg.org file: Three Side-by-Side Translations of the Koran
Buddhism
In the Buddhist faith, there are three canons accepted: the Chinese Canon, which is accepted in Japan, China and Korea; the Tibetan Buddhist Canon and the Pali Canon. There are betweeen 230 and 500 million Buddhists worldwide.
Resources for the Study of Buddhism
Hinduism
Hinduism is a varied religion. There are many sacred texts, the foremost being the Vedas and the Upanishads. After Christianity and Islam, it is the third largest religion, with about 1 billion adherents worldwide. The vast majority of these adherents live on the Indian sucontinent.
All About Hinduism by Swami Sivananda
Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies
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dawngordon
On September 16, 2009 at 8:21 am
I am Christian and what I like to do is research about those other religions so I can try to bring them the gospel of Christ, when you know what they believe, sometimes you can find a way inside to reach them about Jesus instead, that is what I do!
Uma Shankari
On September 16, 2009 at 4:40 pm
Very useful info. Thanks for sharing this.
CutestPrincess
On October 4, 2009 at 2:47 pm
good sources…. im goin to cheek them soon…
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