REL Senior Seminar: Find religious studies digital repositories

A collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use. Documents long associated with a "western civilization" approach to history as well as much information on Byzantine, Islamic, Jewish, Indian, East Asian, and African history. You will also find many documents especially relevant to women's history and LGBT studies.

The Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative of the American Theological Library Association and Association of Theological Schools is a repository of digital resources contributed by member libraries. 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.

Includes full-text of sacred texts of various world religions, such as Ba'hai, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, Shinto and Zoroastrianism.

Digitized texts and manuscripts including texts pertinent to Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. Includes a virtual copy of the Diamond Sutra, a Chinese text that is thought to be one of the oldest surviving printed books.