Primary Sources: Religion

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This version of the Luther translation of the Bible is derived from the edition published by the Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft. Browse or search.

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"The CDRI database provides access to digital images of woodcuts, photographs, slides, papyri, coins, maps, postcards, manuscripts, lithographs, sermons, shape-note tune books, and various forms of Christian art, architecture, and iconography."

Online texts of hundreds of classic Christian writings. Early Christianity, later history of the church, theology, and more.

A digital library containing full text and page images of over 500 individual Quaker works from the 17th and 18th centuries.

Includes important sacred texts from the Near East, India, Egypt, China, Greece, Rome, Islam and Europe.

"A history of the lives, sufferings and triumphant deaths of the early Christian and the Protestant martyrs." First published in 1563.

Material relating to the early church, including canonical documents, creeds, the writings of the Apostolic Fathers and other historical texts relevant to church history.

Texts on Islamic history from ancient times to the 20th century.

This site is a freely available non-profit archive of electronic texts about religion, mythology, legends and folklore, and occult and esoteric topics. Texts are presented in English translation and, in some cases, in the original language.

Browse or search this translation by M.H. Shakir.

Excellent site dedicated to the study of women's religious communities from 400 to 1600CE. Includes a separate section of primary sources, which can be browsed by title/author/community/region/century. Search function also available.

Collection of 13 ancient codices containing over 50 texts discovered in upper Egypt in 1945. The texts provide insight into early Christianity in general and Gnosticism in particular.

Douay-Rheims, Challoner revision, ca. 1750. Search/browse.

Extensive list of primary source documents on issues relating to the interaction of religion and politics, categorized by era from ancient times to the present.

Links to numerous websites of religious texts (Bahai / Bible/ Buddhist / Christian / Confucian / Hindu / Islamic / Jain / Jewish / Sikh / Taoist / Unification Church / Zoroastrian / Other).

Presents 163 Sunday school books published in America between 1815-1865, documenting the culture of religious instruction of youth in America during the Antebellum era.

Presents texts of the Bible (New American), Catechism of the Catholic Church, Code of Canon Law, II Vatican Council, and documents of the Jubilee 2000. Most texts are presented in multiple languages.

Collection of manuscripts, books and images. Use limiters in the left column to focus search on a specific geography, date range, or topic.