mailto:ptchlib@suffolk.lib.ny.us
Home Page
|
|
Patchogue-Medford Library mailto:ptchlib@suffolk.lib.ny.us Home Page |
|
|
|
|
| Online Subscription Databases | World Wide Web Links |
IMPORTANT: Home Access to the available databases on this page now requires a Patchogue-Medford Library card. You will be prompted to enter the barcode from your card.
Encyclopaedia Judaica
Description: The new, updated edition of this encyclopedia contains over 21,000 articles on all aspects of Jewish life,
culture, history, and religion.
Full Text: All articles are fulltext.
Coverage: Based on the print version of the 2007 2nd edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica.
Religion & Philosophy Collection
Description: Covers topics such as world religions and denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology,
political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy, and the history of philosophy.
Full Text: 300+ journals are in full text.
Coverage: Primarily from 1990+, but some full text journals available back to the 1950s.
Updates: Daily.
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online
Description: Contains over 2,000 articles on persons, places, themes and topics in world philosophy. Over 25,000 links to
outside websites useful to the study of philosophy are also included. Subject Guides categorize articles by
topic, time period, and geography.
Full Text: All articles are fulltext.
Coverage: Based on the print version of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Updates: Annually.
| General Sites | |
| Sacred Texts | Americans & Religion |
| Mythology | Religious Humor |
Beliefnet
This site takes a popular approach to understanding the spiritual aspects of modern issues.
Adherents.com
A searchable database of religious statistics from around the world.
Five Year Religious Holidays Calendar
Listings of upcoming religious holidays for most religions.
Official Denominational Web Sites
The Hartford Institute for Religious Research maintains this directory of links to denominational web sites in the United States.
Religious Tolerance.org
This site advocates religious freedom and diversity as positive values. Many essays describing the beliefs of world religions.
This site attempts to describe all viewpoints on controversial religious topics objectively and fairly.
Virtual Religion Index
An annotated directory of quality links to a wide variety of important religions.
Internet Sacred Text Archive
A large archive of full-text books about religion, mythology and folklore.
BibleGateway
A resource for reading and researching the Bible online in the language or translation of your choice.
Has keyword searching and passage lookup features.
New Testament Gateway
A web directory of internet resources on the New Testament. Annotated links on everything from the Greek new testament to Jesus in Film.
Religion and the Founding of the American Republic
This Library of Congress site follows the history of religion in the United States up to the time of the Civil War.
American Religious Identification Survey
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York conducted this survey of religious identification among American adults in 2001.
Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life
The Pew Forum seeks to promote deeper understanding of issues at the intersection of religion and public affairs. Conducts polls and research.
Bulfinch's Mythology
The classic text on Greek and Roman mythology.
The Constellations
Gives the Greek myth for each constellation.
Encyclopedia Mythica
Links to information about Greek, Roman, Norse, Celtic, Native American and many other
mythologies. Use the "jump to area" pull down menu to see a complete list.
Mythical-Folk
An online encyclopedia of mythology and folk lore.
World Myths & Legends in Art
Throughout history artists have been inspired by myths and legends, and have given them visual form.
Digital Librarian's Mythology
Links to many site on mythology.
Eculaugh
A site with good clean religious humor, mostly Christian.
Harry Leichter's Jewish Humor
You were looking for Jewish humor? You've come to the right place.
Lighter Side of Buddhism
The Buddha was known to have a good sense of humor. Here are links to jokes and other humorous Buddhist sites.
This page was last updated on April 27, 2007.