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Babi and Bahá’í faiths
Non-Christian faiths generally
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Babi
and Bahá’í faiths
► Azali Babis [No online site]
►
Bahá’í World Faith
■
Bahá’í Community of the
United States
■
Bahá'í Community of Puerto
Rico
■
Bahá'í Community of the United
Kingdom
► Bahá’í tradition groups
■
Charles Mason Remey
Society (Francis C. Spataro) [No online site]
■
Bahais
Under the Provisions of the Covenant (Leland Jenson)
■ “Friends Newsletter” group [No
online site]
■ Orthodox Bahá’í Faith Under the Regency (Rex King) [No
online site]
■ Universal Palace of Order (John
Carré)
Babism and Bahá’í generally
Babi and Baha'i
faiths at Adherents.com
History and beliefs
Bahá'í Academics Resource Library
Private, independent site maintained by Jonah Winters and a team of contributors
Millenarian and/or esoteric religious traditions originating in Iran, such as Shaykhism, Babism and the Bahá’í faith
Official library of the Bahá’í World Faith
Religious
Movements Homepage The Baha'i Faith
From the Religious Movements Homepage at the University of
Virginia
Exercpt from the Bahá’í World Website
The Babi Faith from a Baha'i
perspective
From
John
A . Nesbit’s Website on World
Comparative Religions from a Baha'i perspective
Directory and links
to online international Bahá’í communities
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Buddism
► Zen Buddism
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Hinduism
►
International Society for Krishna Consciousness
► Vendanta
■
Vedanta Society of Southern California
Hinduism
generally
From the Gnostic
Society Library
Online magazine
founded by Satguru Sivaya
Subramuniyaswami
Spirituality/Yoga/Hinduism
Home page
A Hindu webring page
owned by Giridhar Madras
The Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi website
- Home page
Website dedicated to Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi
The Hindu Universe : Hindu Resource Center
From HinduNet Inc.
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Islam
[This section is obviously still under construction. Any help would be appreciated.]
► Kharijites (secessionists)
► Shafi'ites
► Shi'a Islam
■ Fatimids (Twelvers)
■ Ismaeli Islam (Seveners) and Ismaeli tradition
□ Dawoodi Bohra Community
□ Druze
□ Musta'lis
□ Nizaris
□ Nusayris
□ Khojas and Mawlas Islam (Hashshashin Assassins)
Assassins generally
A HISTORY OF THE AGAKHANI ISMAILIS
► Sufi orders
Sufism generally
Sufism-Structure of Sufi
Orders
Sufism, Sufis, and Sufi Orders:
Sufism's Many Paths
► Sunni Islam
■ Hanafi rite
■ Malakite rite
Islam generally
A Christian Approach
to Islam—Part I
From Reason & Revelation, January 1996
A Christian
Approach to Islam—Part II
From Reason & Revelation, February 1996
al-Qur'an
was-Sunnah Society of North America
Muslim Students Association, Univ. of So. California
Resources for Islamic
study
Bethany World Prayer Center
Islamic.org.uk
Questions submitted are answered by Sheikh Muhammad Salih
al-Munajjid
University of Calgary's Religious Studies 201 class, taught by Prof. Eliezer Segal
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Jainism
Janism generally
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Judaism
► Black Jews (Israelites)
■ International Israelite Board of Rabbis, Inc.
► Conservative Judaism
■
United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
► Humanistic Judaism
■ International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism
■
Society for Humanistic Judaism
► Liberal Orthodox Judaism
■ Yeshivish Orthodox Judaism [No online site]
■
The Rabbinical Alliance of the C.I.S.
■
Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America
► Orthodox Judaism
■ The
Rabbinical Council of America
■
Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada
General Orthodoxy
What are some of the Orthodox sub-groups?
► Reconstructionist Judaism
■
Jewish Reconstructionist Federation
■
Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association
■ Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
► Reform Judaism
■
Central Conference of American Rabbis
■ Union of American Hebrew Congregations
General Judaism
A site created by Tracey Rich as an introduction to Judaism for people with little or no knowledge
Judaism and
Ancient Hebrew Religion
From the former Guide to the Best Religious Studies Resources on the Internet. RIP
MavenSearch - A Portal to the Jewish World
From the MavenSearch Jewish Web directory site
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Native
American religions
► Native American
Church
■
Native American Church
of Strawberry Plains, TN
NAC generally
Encyclopedia.com -- Native American Church
Brief History
of the Native American Church
Native American Church, a brief outline of the Church and
it's history
Native American religions generally
Native American spirituality
UVa Religious
Movements page -- Native American spirituality
From the Religious Movements
Homepage at the University of Virginia
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Shinto
Shinto generally
International Shinto Foundation
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Sikhism
► Sikh Dharma
Sikhism
generally
Centre for Religion Links: Sikhism
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Taoism
[Tao is really two related but separate things, a religion and a philosophy of living. Religious Tao originated in China and never had a centralized organization in the sense of Western religions. Historically, Tao was a rich and varied religion in China; there were numerous sects and traditions. Many did not survive the transition to modernity, and still more were suppressed following 1949 and then the Cultural Revolution. Today, as you will see below, formally “organized” Taosim is mostly a Western phenomenon, at least insofar as the Web is concerned.
►
Center for
Taoist Thought and Fellowship
►
►
►
Feng Shui
■
American Feng Shui Institute
►
I-kuan Tao, Great Dao Teaching (The Perfect Teaching of
the Great Dao)
■
Great Tao Foundation Of
America
■
World I-kuan Tao Headquarters
I-Kuan
Tao generally
►
Lungmen Taosits (disciples of Lao Tzu)
■
Center for Traditional Taoist Studies
■
Universal Society of the Integral Way
Lungamen-Lao
Tzu generally
From the Taoist
Culture and Infomration Centre site
►
Tai Chi
■
International
Taoist Tai Chi Society
■
Patience T'ai Chi Association
►
Temple of the Immortal Spirit
(Definitionist)
►
Western Reform Taoist
Congregation
Historical
Chinese Tao sects
[From the Taoist Culture and Infomration Centre site. A terrific resource.]
+
Azure
Grotto Lineage
+
Bo
Tradition
+
Centre
Sect
+
Complete
Perfection Tradition
+
Divine
Heavent Sect
+
Doctrine
of Mysteries
+
Donghua
Sect
+
Dragon
Gate Sect
+
Dragon
Gate Sect
+
Eastern
Sect
+
Elixir
Cauldron Sect
+
Great
Dao Teaching (The Perfect Teaching of the Great Dao)
+
Heavenly
Heart Sect
+
Highest
Clarity Sect
+
Li
Tradition
+
Lookout
Tower Tradition
+
Mighty
Commonwealth of the Orthodox Oneness Tradition
+
Nanwu
Sect
+
Numinous
Treasure Sect
+
Pristine
Subtlety Sect
+
Pristine
Water Tradition
+
Pure
Brightness Tradition
+
Supreme
Oneness Teaching
+
Talismans
and Registers Sect
+
Twofold
Mystery School
+
Western
Sect
+
Wudang
Sect
+
Yushan
Sect
Taoism generally
Home of the Wandering Daoists
webring
From the Taoist
Culture and Infomration Centre site.
Fabrizio Pregadio
- Home Page
One of the world's
foremost scholars of Taoism
Look Within
From the
Interfaith Center of
New York’s Web site
Religious
Movements Homepage: Taoism
From the Religious Movements Homepage at the University of Virginia
TAOISM
From the Ontario
Consultants on Religious Tolerance site
Taoist Circle
Organization
Resources for an online Taoist community
Taoism
Information Page
Gene R. Thursby’s English-language scholarly information page
Taoist Mysticism
From the Mysticism in
World Religions page
Plus links
Resources compiled by Western practitioners
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Unitarian Universalist
►
Unitarian Universalist Association
►
Unitarian
churches outside of
■
Australian & New
Zealand Unitarian Association
■
Danish Unitarian Church (Denmark)
[Unitarisk Kirkesamfund]
■
■
General
Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches (UK)
■
German Unitarian Religious Community
[Deutsche Unitarier Religionsgemeinschaft]
■
Hungarian
Unitarian Church [Magyarországi Unitárius Egyház]
■
Khasi Unitarian Union (
■
Religious Society of Czech
Unitarians [Nabozenska spolecnost ceskych unitaru]
■
■
■
Unitarian Christian Church
of
■
■
Unitarian Church of South
Africa [No online site]
■
Unitarian Universalist
Association of Sri Lanka [No online site]
■
Unitarian Universalist
Church of the
■
Unitarian Universalist
Society of Finland [Suomen Unitaariuniversalistinen Seura]
■
Unitarian Universalist Society of
Spain [Sociedad Unitaria Universalista de Espańa]
■
Unitarian Universalists of
Russia [No online site]
Unitarian/Universalists generally
Historical information
International Council of Unitarians and
Universalists
Member churches all listed
here
Unitarian Universalist Biographical
Dictionary
Notable historic figures
associated with our movement
Unitarian
Universalist Association’s Web page of worship resources
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See the note below on Zoroastrian groupings
►
Iranian (“Reformist”)
■
California Zoroastrian
Center
■
Iranian Zoroastrian
Association [No online site]
■
Persian Zoroastrian
Organisation [No online site]
■
World Zoroastrian
Organisation
■
Zarathushtrian Assembly, The
►
Parsis (mostly “Traditionalists”)
■
Traditional Mazdayasni
Zoroastrian Anjuman [No online site]
■
Zoroastrian Association of Greater New York
■ Zoroastrian Association of Metropolitan
Chicago
►
Unified groups
■
Federation of
Zoroastrian Organizations of North America
■
Zoroastrian Association
of Metropolitan Washington, Inc.
■
Zoroastrian
Association of the Greater Boston Area
Zoroastrianism generally
Conservative
Zoroastrian Views on the Conversion Debate
From the Religious Movements Homepage at the University of Virginia
Getting to Know the
Zoroastrians
From
the ZAMWI page
Information
About Zoroastrianism
Links
and images
Religious
Movements Homepage: Zoroastrianism
From the Religious Movements Homepage at the University of Virginia
The
Zarathushtrian Assembly
From the Religious Movements
Homepage at the University of Virginia
Traditional
Zoroastrianism: Tenets of the Religion
Exposition and resources
Who are
the Zoroastrians?
History
and beliefs
World of Traditional Zoroastrianism
Links
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Non-Christian faiths generally
Interfaith Center of New
York --World Religions
For generalists seeking an introduction
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* Note on Zoroastrianism. Zoroastrians outside of India and Iran are difficult for an outsider to classify by denomination or sect. There are three basic Zoroastrian denominations: (1) Parsi (Shahenshahis of India, known as Parsis), (2) Iranian (the Qadimis of Iran), and (3) Faslis. Orignally, the denominations differed mostly about the calendar (Parsis and Iranians use a 360-day year.) But the denominations subdivided into “traditionalist” and “reform” groupings. Traditionalists believe that religion and ethnic identity are inseparable, and so eschew intermarriage with non-Zoroastrians. The “reform” movement adherents believe that led Zoroastrians should focus on basic teachings of Zarathushtra as given in the Gathas (“Gathic Guidance”). Most Iranian Zoroastrians have become reformists. But Parsis still largely adhere to one of three sub-divisions of “traditionalists”: common faithful, the Ilm-e Khshnumists, and the Pandole Group.
Confusingly, reformation is spreading among Western Zoroastrians, but North America has groupings of both Parsis and Iranians. Some, such as the the Zarathushtrian Assembly, are avowedly reformist, and some are avowedly traditionalist (such as the Traditional Mazdayasni Zoroastrian Anjuman). The number of worldwide Zoroastrians in North America is small, and their organized resources tend to combine Parsis and Iranians. Where I have been able to determine a group’s stated denominational affiliation, I have listed them as “traditionalist” or “reform.” Groups denoted with an astrisk I have made a guess at. Please let me know if I have incorrectly characterized any entries.