World
Wide Web Resources
Aframerindian Slave Narratives
Patrick Minges' searchable site containing narratives -- from the Oklahoma Writers' Project -- of African-American-Native American slaves.Africana.com
An African-American web portal, news, and information site that developed out of the Microsoft Encarta Africana project.Alternative Considerations of Jonestown
San Diego State University's Department of Religious Studies hosts this site containing resources on Jonestown, including transcripts of Jim Jones' sermons, scholarly articles on the Peoples Temple, and stories of members.Black Archives of Mid-America
Located in Kansas City, Missouri, The Black Archives of Mid-America "is the largest depository of artifacts documenting the African American experience in the four-state area of Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, and Oklahoma."The Digital Librarian: African Americans
A large listing of sites in African-American Studies, compiled by Margaret Vail Anderson.Finding God in Cyberspace
Compiled by John L. Grisham, this site provides a selective listing of online resources for religious studies.The Holy Koran of the Moorish Science Temple
Online version of the text written by Noble Drew Ali in 1927.Resources for American Christianity
Aatabase of abstracts of projects funded by the Lilly Endowment under the rubrics of Christian Faith and Life, Congregational Life and Ministry, Education of Religious Leaders, Religion in Public Life, and Religious Institutions.We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement
A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary developed by the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, and the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration. Sites profiled include: First African Baptist Church, Tuscaloosa; Brown Chapel AME, Selma; First Baptist Church, Selma; Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery; Howard Thurman House, Daytona Beach; Mason Temple, Church of God in Christ, Memphis.
Institute for the Study of Religion and Culture in Africa and the African Diaspora
This new institute at the University of Notre Dame will support a lecture series and colloquium, a research annual, postdoctoral fellows and a visiting scholars program.The Polis Center
Located at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), the Polis center focuses on urban research, particularly in Indianapolis. One of the center's projects explores religion and urban culture.
The Pluralism Project
Diana Eck's project, based at Harvard University, documenting American religious diversity, with an emphasis on the experiences and impact of immigrant religious communities.
Web
Sites of Groups and Organizations
BlackandChristian.com: A Voice for the Black Christian Community
Founded by Jacqueline Trussell, a graduate of Harvard Divinity School and researcher and writer, this extremely rich, well-designed and well-maintained site contains a variety of resources for and about African Americans in the pulpit, the pew, the academy, and the Black Church in general.The Monastereo: Web Portal for Black Christians
A listing of black churches, ministers, and musical artists.National African Religion Conference
Site for an organization, founded in 1999, that seeks "to foster unity between all African religions of the Diaspora."
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