Help!! Teacher needs info on religions of the world!!

[Nitai]

Hare Krishna

There are some very nice books you can download on

http://www.acbspn.com/books/default.htm

I would recommend to you to first read the book "Science of Sef-realization".
There you can get a lot of nice information about orthodox Hindu religion. Of course we don't call it Hindu, you will see why, but I am calling it like that so you can easily relate to what I say.


In the above book I mentioned, there are interesting things about research of the scientists about soul and consciousness; understanding Krishna and Christ and many other valuable topics.

Hare Krishna
Success.

[Saponification]

For Buddhism I'd check BuddhaNet. You'll find it at http://www.buddhanet.net/

Taoism? Grab yourself a copy of the Tao Te Ching. http://www.wikipeda.org/ has a free translation and you should be able to find it at your local library. For Confucianism, grab the I Ching - the book of change.

This site ( http://www.religionfacts.com/ ) is also fairly good. They don't have a lot of information and I've found that their information on Buddhism is heavily biased towards the Tibetan schools, but it should provide you with enough information to get you started. It has "fast fact" summeries for each of the religions on the site, I'm guessing they'd be very useful to you.

[PluckyAli]

Hello all,
If you want to know about islam,hinduism,christianity,buddhism goto an islamic,hindusit,christian and buddhist site respectively.Don't goto a site which lists all the religions .The chances are maybe the owner of site had tried to twist other religions.

The best neutral site that i would recommend is http://www.wikipedia.org/.It's open source,anyone can write in it.If there is some dispute in the information provided in this website,they display a warning heading saying this article is disputed so i think it's the most accurate website to get information on different religions particularly if you don't have a time.


If you have time you can goto google.com to search for each religion,and goto to a top ranked web site of that religion.If you want to investigate a particular religion,you can goto www.factbites and search there.I hope this helps.

[kiwimac]

Generally I would agree. Except that Brian, et al. have tried to make this web-site as neutral as possible & IMO they have largely succeeded.

Kiwimac

[CanuckRasta]

Just got to put my props in for Rastafarianism.

One Love
CanuckRasta
Lij Marques B.

[smkolins]

Another place to get information is www.adherents.com . They have an excellent, indeed perhaps unique, review of religionists including population, distribution, prominant people of faith, - lot's and lot's of summary and stats. But not much aimed at teachings - just who/where and counting. But it does that very very well.

[smkolins]

Here's a turn-of-the-last-century classic reviewing religious life. I'm sure it's been used as a basic text in such kinds of classes.

[Haruko]

www.buddhachat.com

[kiwimac]

For a very quick and simple run-down of Gathic Zoroastrianism, you might try the following web-page.

http://www.zoroastrianism.cc/religio...igions_72.html

Kiwimac

[The Father]

Hi Kirb,

Here is a very nice website about ISLAM:

http://www.islam-guide.com/


It contains the whole book, A Brief Illustrated Guide to Understanding Islam.
This Islamic guide is for non-Muslims who would like to understand Islam, Muslims (Moslems), and the Holy Quran (Koran). It is rich in information, references, bibliography, and illustrations. It has been reviewed and edited by many professors and well-educated people. It is brief and simple to read, yet contains much scientific knowledge.

Good luck.