H-AmRel
A member of H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine. Engaged in scholarly discussion of religion in American society from pre-colonial times to present, H-AmRel is a premier resource for academics, clergy, and librarians alike.

H-Buddhism
The Buddhist Scholars Information Network (H-Buddhism) serves as a medium for the exchange of information regarding academic resources, new research projects, scholarly publications, university job listings, and so forth, for specialists in Buddhist Studies who are currently affiliated with academic institutions.

H-Pentecostalism
H-Pentecostalism serves as an online forum for communication and interaction among scholars regarding all aspects of Pentecostal history.

H-Southern-Religion
H-Southern-Religion provides an online venue for interaction between scholars in a broad range of fields, from American religious history to southern religious history, and from African American studies to gender studies.

The Immanent Frame
Sponsored by the Social Science Research Council in NYC, the Immanent Frame includes regular entries on secularism, religion, and the public sphere from the leading religion scholars in the world.

Religion in American History Blog
A group blog to foster discussion and share research, insights, reviews, observations, syllabi, links, new books, project information, grant opportunities, seminars, lectures, and thoughts about religion in American history, and American religious history.

Religion News Blog
Religion News Blog is a non-profit service providing academics, religion professionals and other researchers with religion & cult news.

American Women’s History: A Research Guide – Religion
Contains bibliographies, primary source information, and a list of internet sites related to women and religion in America.

The Andover-Harvard Theological Library: Resource Guides

ENC’s Nease Library
Valuable resources at the library include the ATLA Religion Database and JSTOR.  The latter contains runs of the American Historical Review, Church History, Harvard Theological Journal of Religion, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Religion and American Culture, and Reviews in American History.  Articles can be downloaded as pdfs.  Some of these publications run back to the late nineteenth century.  See also, the library's countless other resources through Proquest and other portals.

A 2008 RefWorks Select Bibliography on American Religious History
Created by Kate Carte Engel (Assistant Professor of History, Texas A&M University), this short bibliography is a good place to start for research on a variety of topics and themes.

Puritanism & Colonial Period: to 1700 (Perspectives in American Literature)
Contains an extensive bibliography and useful outlines on Puritan religion.

The Yale University Library Guide to American Religious History
A collection of links, sources, databases, and bibliographies.

Archives of African American Music and Culture
A repository of materials covering a range of African American musical idioms and cultural expressions from the post-World War II era.  Our collections highlight popular, religious, and classical music, with genres ranging from blues and gospel to R&B and contemporary hip hop.  The AAAMC also houses extensive materials related to the documentation of black radio.

“Now What a Time”: Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943 (Library of Congress)
Consists of approximately one hundred sound recordings, primarily blues and gospel songs, and related documentation from the folk festival at Fort Valley State College (now Fort Valley State University), Fort Valley, Georgia. The documentation was created by John Wesley Work III in 1941 and by Lewis Jones and Willis Laurence James in March, June, and July 1943.

The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip (Library of Congress)
A multiformat ethnographic field collection that includes nearly 700 sound recordings, as well as fieldnotes, dust jackets, and other manuscripts documenting a three-month, 6,502-mile trip through the southern United States.

Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 (Library of Congress)
Consists of over 47,000 pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the years 1870 to 1885. Included are popular songs, piano music, sacred and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra.

Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection (Library of Congress)
An online presentation of a multi-format ethnographic field collection documenting religious and secular music of Spanish-speaking residents of rural Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado.

American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers Project, 1936-1940 (Library of Congress)
These life histories were written by the staff of the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers' Project for the U.S. Works Progress (later Work Projects) Administration (WPA) from 1936-1940. The Library of Congress collection includes 2,900 documents representing the work of over 300 writers from 24 states. Typically 2,000-15,000 words in length, the documents consist of drafts and revisions, varying in form from narrative to dialogue to report to case history. The histories describe the informant's family education, income, occupation, political views, religion and mores, medical needs, diet and miscellaneous observations. Pseudonyms are often substituted for individuals and places named in the narrative texts.

Boston Public Library Digital Resources
The BPL has a host of tremendous resources on its web page.  All you need to access this is a BPL card, which is free and available to all Boston-area residents.  The site's History material is particularly convenient.  There you can find datatbases like American History and Life, Archive of Americana, History Resource Center: U.S., and Gale Virtual Reference Library.  See also the Newspapers section, where you'll find hundreds of searchable weeklies and dailies, including a number of southern papers going back to the 1860s.  In addition this link contains sublinks to full-text academic journals and magazines.

Documenting the American South
Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes ten thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.

Early Virginia Religious Petitions (Library of Congress)
Early Virginia Religious Petitions presents images of 423 petitions submitted to the Virginia legislature between 1774 and 1802 from more than eighty counties and cities. Drawn from the Library of Virginia's Legislative Petitions collection, the petitions concern such topics as the historic debate over the separation of church and state championed by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, the rights of dissenters such as Quakers and Baptists, the sale and division of property in the established church, and the dissolution of unpopular vestries.

First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920 (Library of Congress)
This compilation of printed texts from the libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill documents the culture of the nineteenth-century American South from the viewpoint of Southerners. It includes the diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts, and ex-slave narratives of not only prominent individuals, but also of relatively inaccessible populations: women, African Americans, enlisted men, laborers, and Native Americans. An award from the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition supported the digitization of 101 titles published during and after the Civil War. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill supplemented these titles with another forty first-person narratives, many published before 1860.

Google Books
Access millions of religious titles from the 1600s to the present.  Many are available in full.

Making of America
MoA is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 9,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. For more details about the project, see About MoA. Making of America is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Religion and the Founding of the American Republic (Library of Congress)
This Library of Congress exhibition demonstrates that many of the colonies that in 1776 became the United States of America were settled by men and women of deep religious convictions who in the seventeenth century crossed the Atlantic Ocean to practice their faith freely.

In the Beginning Was the Word: The Russian Church and Native Alaskan Cultures (Library of Congress)
The coming together of a renowned scholar and a rich, but relatively unknown and unused archive of historically significant documents is a rare phenomenon. Last winter [1993-1994] the Librarian of Congress, Dr. James H. Billington, asked Dr. Vyacheslav Ivanov, one of the foremost linguists of our day, to review and evaluate the Alaskan Russian Church Archives, and to select some items for an exhibition. This installation is the direct result of that encounter, and it offers a rare opportunity to witness the insights that such an exchange can produce.

American Academy of Religion
In a world where religion plays so central a role in social, political, and economic events, as well as in the lives of communities and individuals, there is a critical need for ongoing reflection upon and understanding of religious traditions, issues, questions, and values. The American Academy of Religion's mission is to promote such reflection through excellence in scholarship and teaching in the field of religion.

American Society of Church History

Beliefnet
Beliefnet has a wide variety of resources--articles, quizzes, devotionals, sacred text searches, message boards, prayer circles, photo galleries and much more. . .

The Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, Boston College
The goal of the Boisi Center is to create opportunities where a community of scholars, policy makers, media and religious leaders in the Boston area and nationally can connect in conversations and scholarly reflection around issues at the intersection of religion and American public life.

Buddhist Studies at UC Berkeley

Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
A research and public outreach institute devoted to the promotion of the understanding of the relation between religion and other features of American culture.

Center for the Study of Religion and Culture, Vanderbilt University
“The Center for the Study of Religion and Culture (CSRC) was established in 2003 by the University to develop, promote, and increase faculty research at the intersections of religion and culture.”

The Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University
The CSR a major academic initiative that aims to encourage scholarly research, teaching, and public discussion about religion through diverse perspectives of the humanities and social sciences.

Center for the Study of Religion, UCLA
The Center grew out of an informally organized group of faculty and students interested in religion. This group has held a weekly colloquium and mounted annual conferences and evening lecture series since 1990.   UCLA has also had for over twenty years an Interdepartmental Degree Program (IDP) offering an undergraduate major in the Study of Religion.

The Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, Notre Dame University
Provides resources and critical commentary for media coverage of U.S. Catholicism and collaborating with church leaders and pastoral workers to enhance the vitality of Catholic life in the United States.

French and Spanish Missions in North America
Part of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative, this site, created by John Corrigan and Tracy Leavelle, with Arthur Remillard, includes maps, data files, and a number of useful links.

The Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals
Founded in 1982 to encourage and support research on evangelical Christianity in North America. Read back issues of the ISAE bulletin, find links to a variety of websites related to evangelicalism, and other valuable resources.

The Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life, Trinity College
The Center was established in 1996 to advance knowledge and understanding of the varied roles that religious movements, institutions, and ideas play in the contemporary world; to explore challenges posed by religious pluralism and tensions between religious and secular values; and to examine the influence of religion on politics, civic culture, family life, gender roles, and other issues in the United States and elsewhere in the world.

The Material History of Religion Project
More than just ideas and institutions, religion in America is a rich mixture of objects, behaviors and people.  Working from 1995 through 2001, the Material History of American Religion Project studied the history of American religion in all its complexity by focusing on material objects and economic themes.

Mormon History Association

Religion and American Culture Caucus of the American Studies Association
We are pleased to welcome you to the Religion and American Culture Caucus of the American Studies Association. We invite and encourage all ASA members who are interested in exploring the place of religion in American life, and promoting the study and teaching of religion within American Studies, to join.

Society for Pentecostal Studies

Wesleyan Theological Society

Books and Culture
A wide-ranging review, covering the arts, religion, the humanities, music, and film.

The Christian Century
The Christian Century magazine believes that the Christian faith calls Christians to a profound engagement with the world--an engagement of both head and heart. We think Christians can and must articulate their faith in a way that is meaningful and intellectually compelling to those around them.

First Things
Is published by The Institute on Religion and Public Life, an interreligious, nonpartisan research and education institute whose purpose is to advance a religiously informed public philosophy for the ordering of society.

The Journal of Religion and Film
Examines the description, critique, and embodiment of religion in film.

The Journal of Southern Religion
This is a peer-reviewed academic journal that I co-edit with Bland Whitley, Library of Virginia.  It is parked on the Florida State University server.  The JSR is entirely online and contains articles and reviews by the leading scholars in the field.  It will be especially of use to anyone researching religion in the American South.  Topics include Catholicism, civil rights, southern sacred music, violence and southern religion, fundamentalism, pentecostalism, gender, and much more.

The North Star Journal
An on-line journal covering African American religious history and culture.

The Revealer
A daily review of religion and the press.

Sojourners
The publications mission is “to articulate the biblical call to social justice, inspiring hope and building a movement to transform individuals, communities, the church, and the world.”

Gordon Matties' Religion and Film Bibliography

The Journal of Religion and Film
Examines the description, critique, and embodiment of religion in film.

Judith Weisenfeld's Selected Filmography of American Films at the Material History of American Religion Project

Beliefnet: News and Blogs

The Christian Science Monitor: Religion and Ethics

The Journal of Southern Religion: Southern Religion in the News

National Public Radio: Religion

The New York Times: Religion and Belief

Religion and Ethics Newsweekly

Religion News from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
Collects headlines from newspapers and magazines across the U.S.  Browsers can sort by category: bioethics, death penalty, gay marriage, religion and politics, religion and public schools…

Religion News Service
“For over 70 years, Religion News Service has been an authoritative source of news about religion, ethics, spirituality and moral issues. Based in Washington, D.C., RNS has a network of correspondents around the world, providing news and information on all faiths and religious movements to the nation's leading newspapers, news magazines, broadcast organizations and religious publications.”

Washington Post: Religion

Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School: Resources by Topic
“Each topic area includes a brief overview of the CSWR's work in that area, together with related online photo galleries; video and audio presentations of lectures and conferences; papers and publications available online; and books published by the CSWR. Not all topic areas include all types of resources.”

Religious Movements Homepage at the University of Virginia
“In addition to creating a foundation for understanding religion, this site also seeks to promote tolerance and appreciation of all religions without preference for any particular faith tradition.”

The American Religion Data Archive
Providing free access to quality data on religion. The ARDA allows you to interactively explore the highest quality data on American and international religion using online features for generating national profiles, maps, church membership overviews, denominational heritage trees, tables, charts, and other summary reports.

Glenmary Research Center
Disseminates religious demography in three primary formats: books, maps, and data files. Some of these resources are now available for ordering over the Web.

American Ethnic Geography: Map Gallery of Religion in the U.S.
A series of county-level choropleth maps reveals the distribution of the larger and more regionally concentrated church bodies. The maps are in GIF format.

The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life: Research, News, Discussion
Seeks to promote a deeper understanding of issues at the intersection of religion and public affairs. The Forum pursues its mission by delivering timely, impartial information to national opinion leaders, including government officials and journalists. As a nonpartisan, non-advocacy organization, the Forum does not take positions on policy debates.

The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life: U.S. Religious Landscape Survey

Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture: Young Scholars in American Religion Syllabi (1991-2006)

The National Humanties Center's Divining America: Religion and the National Culture
Designed to help teachers of American history bring their students to a greater understanding of the role religion has played in the development of the United States.  Contains helpful overviews of a variety of American religious history topics.

Indiana Humanities Council: Teaching the Role of Religion in American History
This website offers the results of a five-year project exploring how to teach American religious history.

Teacher Resources for PBS’s Frontline Documentaries on Religion

The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning Theology and Religion
“The Wabash Center supports teachers of religion and theology in higher education through meetings and workshops, grants, a journal and other resources to make accessible the scholarship of teaching and learning. All Wabash Center programs are funded by Lilly Endowment Inc.”

Speaking of Faith
Public radio’s conversation about religion, meaning, ethics, and ideas. Each week, Krista Tippett probes the myriad ways in which religious impulses inform every aspect of life and culture, nationally and globally.  Hear full broadcasts and read additional content.

Religion and Ethics Newsweekly
Hosted by veteran journalist Bob Abernethy, this one-of-a-kind television newsmagazine provides insightful coverage and analysis of the news, people, events and trends behind the headlines in the rich world of religion and ethics.  Read transcripts and view programs at this companion site.

Religious Broadcasting Site at the University of Virginia
A gateway to Internet resources about religious broadcasting. We will begin with the simple goal of creating easy access links to the resources that broadcasters themselves have created. When that task is accomplished, we will attempt to identify other Internet commentary about religious broadcasting….