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General Resources

Adherents.com

Library of Congress archived website that published statistics gleaned from public & denominational records regarding membership in hundreds of religious groups from A to Z. [NB: last captured on 7/3/2019. Since then the original URL was sold & now promotes loans that have nothing to do with religious data].

American Sociological Association

Website of professional association of sociologists includes homepages for sections on sociology of religion & sociology of culture as well as ASA publications.

Association of Religion Data Archives

Lilly Endowment project to make global demographic information on religious groups accessible to educators, students, media and other researchers. Data filed by region, denomination, or teaching tools for students & instructors.  Especially useful for locating reports on localities in the U.S. (Penn State U).

Field Statement on the Anthropology of Religion

John K. Nelson's 1990 essay on the history & problems of defining the field of religion from Hegel to Walter Ong, concludes by endorsing Ole Riis' 10 test questions for evaluating the ideologies, ritual processes & social structures of various cultural systems. Extensive bibliography.

National Science Foundation: Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences

Research projects & reports on problems of human social organization, demography, and processes of individual and institutional change, including religion, democratization & market transition.

The Scout Report for the Social Sciences

NSF sponsored Internet Scout Project maintains searchable archive of reviews of quality sites related to the social sciences (through 2001).

The Sociological Study of Religion

Major gateway to resources for the discipline posts links to on-line articles, course syllabi, scholars' web pages, online articles, professional organizations, & research methods of the Hartford Institute for Religious Research. 

A Sociological Tour through Cyberspace

Archived pages of the late Michael Kearl's gateway to sociological resources online includes pages on general social theory, method & statistics, the sociologies of death & dying, knowledge, anthropology & history (Trinity U). Last updated 2010.


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