Resources
Books, Articles, and Journals:
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JSTOR: A not-for-profit that partners with libraries, museums, and publishers to offer over 12 million academic journal articles, 100,000 books, and millions of images and primary source materials in 75 disciplines.
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Portico: Portico is a community-supported preservation archive that safeguards access to e-journals, e-books, and digital collections.
Apps for Meditation:
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Breathe: Use the Breathe app to help you relax and focus on your breathing.
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Calm: Calm is well known for promoting relaxation and sleep thanks to its soothing background sounds and to-the-point meditations.
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Headspace: Headspace has a user-friendly interface with hundreds of guided meditations promoting mindfulness, better sleep, reduced stress, and more for beginners to experts.
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Healthy Minds Program: A Proven Path to Well-Being. Powered by Science.
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Insight Timer: Insight Timer has a giant library of free meditations, so if your budget is tight, this is the meditation app for you.
Online Therapy Services:
Online therapy provides a convenient and often affordable way to access mental health help without requiring you to visit a counseling center or therapist’s office in person.
The world’s largest therapy service — providing professional, affordable, and personalized therapy in a convenient online format. BetterHelp offers access to a network of over 30,000 licensed, trained, experienced, and accredited psychologists (PhD / PsyD), marriage and family therapists (LMFT), clinical social workers (LCSW / LMSW), and board licensed professional counselors (LPC).
Through evidence-based meditation and mindfulness tools, mental health coaching, therapy, and psychiatry, Headspace helps you create life-changing habits to support your mental health and find a healthier, happier you.
With Talkspace online therapy, you can access therapy, medication management, and personalized treatment with the support of a licensed professional.
Additional Resources:
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ARTSTOR: Artstor is the most extensive image resource for educational and scholarly use.
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Bible Odyssey: As a public outreach of the Society of Biblical Literature, Bible Odyssey’s mission is to inform the general public about the content of the Bible and the critical approaches to it.
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BibleProject: BibleProject is a nonprofit, crowdfunded organization that produces 100% free Bible videos, podcasts, articles, classes, and educational Bible resources to help make the biblical story accessible to everyone everywhere. Their Bible resources help people experience the Bible in a way that is approachable, engaging, and transformative.
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BuddhaNet: BuddhaNet is a not-for-profit organization affiliated with the Buddha Dharma Education Association Inc. (BDEA). BuddhaNet is a non-sectarian organization, offering its services to all Buddhist traditions. It aims to facilitate a significant Buddhist presence in the ever-expanding realm of computer communications technology, applying this technology to help make the Buddha's teachings freely available to all.
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Dartmouth Racial Justice Resources: Spiritual and Faith-based resources on racial justice and anti-racism.
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edX: edX is the online learning platform from world-leading digital education company 2U, Inc. edX was founded by Harvard and MIT as an experiment to make the world’s best education available to everyone. edX has a wide range of courses and boot camps on history, religion, spirituality, philosophy, and anthropology.
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Hindu American Foundation (HAF): HAF is the largest and oldest education and advocacy organization and the pre-eminent voice for Hindu Americans.
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Intercommunity Peace & Justice Center: The IPJC acts for justice in the church and in the world. It is sponsored by twenty-four religious communities and collaborates with Catholic, ecumenical, interfaith and other organizations in carrying out its mission of collaboration among individuals, churches & organizations to build community & create change for the common good.
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Interfaith America: Interfaith America is a premier interfaith nonprofit organization that provides expert consultation, training, curricula, and resources to positively engage religious diversity.
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Interfaith America’s Black Interfaith Project: An initiative to spotlight the longstanding diversity of Black religious life and the many ways Black interfaith engagement has contributed to American spiritual and civic life.
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Interfaith Philadelphia: Interfaith Philadelphia is led by a professional team and Board of Directors whose members reflect a broad spectrum of religious, ethnic, and racial communities. These leaders bring together religious leaders, congregants, and youth to get to know each other as people and to learn how to value and respect the “other” while maintaining and often strengthening their own religious identities.
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Islamic Networks Group (ING): ING is a peace-building organization providing education and engagement opportunities that foster understanding of Muslims and other misunderstood groups to promote harmony among all people.
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Islamic Studies Info: Resources to aid the academic study of Islamic.
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Patheos: Brings together faith communities, academics, and the broader public into a single environment in which to engage in the global dialogue about religion and spirituality.
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Quran Explorer: QuranExplorer.com was started in October, 2005, by a group of Muslims living in Orlando, Florida, USA with the goal of spreading the message of the Holy Quran to all mankind and serve as a source of guidance and light for all human beings throughout the face of this earth, regardless of race, color, age, nationality, and religion (Aameen).
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Religion and Public Life at Harvard Divinity School: RPL provides an umbrella for programs, research, and scholarship that explore the ways that religion is entwined with social, political, and economic dimensions of human experience and the institutions that structure human interaction. We provide a framework for students across disciplines and professionals in a wide array of fields to better understand the destructive as well as the creative power of religion in unique contexts.
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Religion Facts: Provides articles on a wide variety of world religions, both ancient and modern, including a number of comparisons of religious denominations and faith traditions in such areas as beliefs, governance, practices, among others.
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Sefaria: Sefaria is a non-profit organization dedicated to building the future of Jewish learning in an open and participatory way. It is a free living library of Jewish texts and their interconnections, in Hebrew and in translation.
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Society of Biblical Literature: The SBL is the oldest and largest learned society devoted to the critical investigation of the Bible from a variety of academic disciplines. The mission of SBL is to foster academic scholarship in biblical studies and cognate areas across global boundaries.
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The Bahá’í Faith: The Official Website of the Worldwide Bahá’í Community.
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The Human Rights Campaign: The Human Rights Campaign strives to end discrimination against LGBTQ+ people. These resources are intended to help LGBTQ+ people, their families, friends and allies, find powerful and transformative spaces to learn more about the intersection of their faith and LGBTQ+ issues.
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The Pluralism Project at Harvard University: The Pluralism Project at Harvard University studies and interprets the changing religious landscape of the United States. We conduct research with the help of students, in collaboration with others in our field, and in partnership with religious communities and interfaith organizations. Our award-winning educational resources are informed by this ongoing research.
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Westar Institute: A member-supported nonprofit research and education organization that bridges the gap between scholarship about religion and the perception of religion in popular culture.