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Religions

Christianity

Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Library Biblical Texts
[Brill] This library contains the entire corpus of Dead Sea Scrolls texts and consists of
— the Hebrew Biblical texts in the Dead Sea Scrolls
— an English translation, based not on individual fragments but on all extant fragments that form a particular Masoretic book (or part thereof); it is equally based on the Masoretic text for those parts that are missing in the Dead Sea Scrolls
— the Hebrew text from the oldest extant manuscript of the Masorah, the Codex Leningradensis
American Theological Library Association (ATLA) Historical Monographs Collection: Series 1, Late 13th Century–1893
The Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation
The Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts
[AM Scholar] Church Missionary Society Archive, 1799–1959
Church Missionary Society Periodicals, 1804–2009
Religion, Society, Spirituality, and Reform
Part of Gale Nineteenth Century Collections Online
Methodist Episcopal Church Archives: Missionary Activities, 1819-1952
Religions of America, 1820–1990
Evangelism in India: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Missions, 1833–1910
Evangelism in Africa: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Missions, 1835–1910
SOURCE LIBRARY: Library of the Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia
Presbyterian mission work in Africa commenced in 1833 and throughout the l9th century expanded to several different areas therein. These included: Liberia, 1833-94; Corsico, 1850-75; Spanish Guinea, 1865-1924, 1932: Gaboon, 1871-92; Ogowe, 1874-92; and the Cameroon, 1889-1972.
Evangelism in China: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Missions, 1837–1911
Evangelism in Iran: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Missions, 1847-1911
Evangelism in Latin America: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Missions, 1854-1911
Evangelism in Japan: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Missions, 1859–1911
Evangelism and the Syria-Lebanon Mission: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Missions, 1869-1910
Evangelism in Korea: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Missions, 1884–1911
Sunday School Movement and Its Curriculum, 1884–1920
The Archives of the Church in North India - Monograph Collection
The Digital Karl Barth (1886-1968) Library
Twentieth Century Religious Thought: Volume I, Christianity

Freely accessible online collections

Judaism

Brill's Series in Jewish Studies
The series include, for example, Printing the Talmud: Complete Editions, Tractates and Other Works, and the Associated Presses from the Mid-17th Century through the 18th Century, which is a profusely illustrated major work describing the complete editions of the Talmud printed from about 1650 to slightly after 1800.

Freely accessible online collections

Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library

Islam

Encyclopaedia Iranica
The Encyclopædia Iranica is a comprehensive research tool dedicated to the study of Iranian civilization in the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent.
Brill - Encyclopaedia Iranica Online
Brill - Encyclopaedia Islamica

Miras Maktoob
[Brill] The Miras Maktoob Persian e-book collection consists of 248 volumes (189 works) originally published by the Written Heritage Research Institute (Miras Maktoob), a non-governmental organisation in Tehran. For example, the Nahj al-balāgha is a collection of sermons, letters, testimonials, and wise sayings attributed to ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib (d. 40/661), the Prophet’s son-in-law, successor, and first imam of the Shīʿa.
Brill - Early Western Korans Online, 1537–1857
Korans had been printed in Arabic type in several European cities. The collection includes Korans and Koran translations, printed between 1537 and 1857: e.g., the first Arabic Koran produced by the Venetian printer Alessandro Paganini and the Hamburg Koran edition produced by Abraham Hinckelmann in 1694.
Brill - Christian-Muslim Relations
— Christian-Muslim Relations 600-1500 is a general online history of relations between the faiths. It covers the period from 600 to 1500, when encounters took place through the extended Mediterranean basin and are recorded in Syriac, Arabic, Greek, Latin and other languages.
— Christian-Muslim Relations 1500-1900 covers all parts of the world in the period 1500-1914.
Brill - The History of Christian-Muslim Relations
The series present the surviving record of past encounters in a variety of forms: authoritative, text editions and annotated translations, studies of authors and their works and collections of essays on particular themes and historical periods.
Twentieth Century Religious Thought: Volume II, Islam
Brill - Annotated Legal Documents on Islam in Europe Online
European countries include Poland, Cyprus, Bulgaria, The Netherlands, Estonia, Croatia, Belgian, Latvia, Italy, France, Greece, Switzerland, Finland, Lithuania, Sweden, Ireland, and Norway.

Freely accessible online collections

Perseus Collection: The Quran

Buddhism

Freely accessible online collections

Chinese Rubbings Collection

Films & Documentaries

Audio Ciné Films (ACF)
There is a category called Religion.
Docuseek
Docuseek streams independent, social-issue and environmental documentaries to colleges and universities, providing exclusive access to content from Bullfrog Films, Icarus Films (including The Fanlight Collection and dGenerate Films), Women Make Movies, Kartemquin Films, First Run Features, KimStim, First Hand Films, MediaStorm, Scorpion TV, Terra Nova Films, Viewpoint Productions, Film Movement, Deckert Distribution, The Films of Anand Patwardhan, etc.
Visit the Subjects: e.g., Christianity, Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Shi'ia.