Religion

The Religion section of the Pew Research Center presents data that seeks to promote a deeper understanding of issues at the intersection of religion and public affairs.

Privately owned and operated (with ads) but very useful collection of sacred texts from many world religious traditions.

RAMBI – The Index of Articles on Jewish Studies – is a selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel.

Basic information on major world religions courtesy of the BBC.

The official website of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

The ARDA is based in the Department of Sociology at The Pennsylvania State University. Our goal is to preserve and provide access to high-quality data on religion in the United States and abroad. We are funded by the Lilly Endowment and the John Templeton Foundation.

Since 1990, this decadal census has been conducted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies. Coverage now includes many non-Christian groups as well as special counts for religious traditions that do not have central data collection points, such as non-denominational churches or Muslim and Jewish communities.