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RELIGIOUS ADVISEMENT RESOURCES

2020

PART II

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FAITH AND SYSTEMS

U.S. Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons Inmate Religious Beliefs and Practices http://www.acfsa.org/documents/dietsReligious/FederalGuidelinesInmateReligiousBeliefsandPractices032702.pdf Native American Eastern Rite Catholicism Odinism/Asatru Protestant Rastfari Roman Catholic Christianity Moorish Science of America Sikh

U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Primer https://crcc.usc.edu/files/2015/02/Primer-HighRes.pdf Baha’i Earth-Based Buddhism Hinduism Christianity: Anabaptist Humanism Anglican/Episcopal Islam Evangelical Judaism Jehovah’s Witnesses Native American/ American Indigenous Orthodox Pentecostal Sikh (Mainline) Roman Catholicism

Medical Care and Faith/Belief Systems

NIH Cultural Religious Competence in Clinical Practice https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK493216/ Health Care and Religious Beliefs https://www.albertahealthservices.ca/assets/programs/ps-1026227-health-care-religious-beliefs.pdf Hindu patients and Hinduism https://www.health.qld.gov.au/multicultural/health_workers/hbook-hindu Muslim Patients and Islam https://www.health.qld.gov.au/multicultural/health_workers/hbook-muslim Sikh Patients and https://www.health.qld.gov.au/multicultural/health_workers/hbook-sikh

Guide on Religion and Belief in the British Armed Forces https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guide-on-religion-and-belief-in-the-armed-forces

Guide to Religion and Belief in the Australian Defence Force https://www.defencejobs.gov.au/-/media/DFR/Files/Guide_to_Religion_and_Belief_in_the_ADF.pdf

VA Emblems of faith and belief for placement on government headstones and markers https://www.cem.va.gov/cem/hmm/emblems.asp

Religious Symbols and their meaning from around the world https://www.symbols.com/category/5/Religious+Symbols

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Histories of World https://study.com/academy/course/history-of-major-world-religions-study-guide.html

Overview of organized by and geographical region http://www.philtar.ac.uk/encyclopedia/index.html

Encyclopedia of Death and Dying http://www.deathreference.com/index.html

Sacred Sites - Precise Locations of 2,000 sites around the world https://sacredsites.com/

The Pluralism Project https://pluralism.org/ Afro-Caribbean Jainism Baha’i Judaism Buddhism Native American Christianity Shinto Daoism Sikhism Hinduism Unitarian Humanism Zoroastrianism Islam

The Religious Literacy Project https://rlp.hds.harvard.edu/religions

Patheos Library info on fifty major religious traditions www.patheos.com/library

BBC Religions and Beliefs http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/

Neo-Paganism Overview, History, , Ethics, Mythology, and Practices https://neo-paganism.org/elements-of-neo-paganism/

Paganism Federation , and Wicca, Heathenry, , Hellenism, and https://www.paganfed.org/paganism/

African Religion Stanford Libraries https://library.stanford.edu/africa-south-sahara/browse-topic/religion

Yoruba Faith in the Diaspora https://www.howard.edu/library/reference/cybercamps/camp2002/YorubaFaith.htm

Historical and Modern Religions of https://asiasociety.org/education/historical-and-modern-religions-korea

Understanding Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism https://asiasociety.org/china-learning-initiatives/three-teachings

Japanese Religion of Shinto https://asiasociety.org/education/shinto

Religion and Spirituality of Indigenous Peoples in Canada https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/religion-of-aboriginal-people#furtherreading

Cultural Diversity, Religious and People of India https://www.bangladeshsociology.org/BEJS%203.2%20Das.pdf

ATLA World Religions General Reference https://atla.libguides.com/WOR/world-religions 3

Religion Facts http://www.religionfacts.com/religions

Ahmadiyya Church of Taoism

Aladura Confucianism Islam Priory of Sion Buddhism

Amish Conservative Jainism Protestantism Judaism Buddhism Jehovah's Witnesses Pure Land Buddhism Asatru Judaism Donatism Typhonian Order Assemblies of Dragon Rouge Rastafarianism Kemetic Reconstructionism Baha'i Faith Eastern Orthodox Rinzai Unitarian Church Buddhism Universalism Buddhism Roman Religion Mayan Religion Buddhism ELCA Buddhism Candomble Epicureanism Scientology Vedanta Cao Dai Seventh-Day Mormonism Vineyard Cathari Churches Neopaganism Catholicism Foursquare Voodoo Church Shi'a Islam Charismatic Westboro Baptist movement Shinto Church

Chinese Religion Greek Religion Sikhism Wicca

Christadelphians Hare Krishna Norse Religion Soto Zen Worldwide Buddhism Church of God Christian Science Hasidism Yezidi Christianity Hellenic Oneness Reconstructionism Stoicism Zen Church of God Hinduism Zionism Church of God in Christ Illuminati Pentecostalism Zoroastrianism

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