RELIGIOUS ADVISEMENT RESOURCES
2020
PART II
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FAITH AND BELIEF SYSTEMS
U.S. Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons Inmate Religious Beliefs and Practices http://www.acfsa.org/documents/dietsReligious/FederalGuidelinesInmateReligiousBeliefsandPractices032702.pdf Buddhism Native American Eastern Rite Catholicism Odinism/Asatru Hinduism Protestant Christianity Islam Rastfari Judaism Roman Catholic Christianity Moorish Science Temple of America Sikh Dharma Nation of Islam Wicca
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Religious Literacy Primer https://crcc.usc.edu/files/2015/02/Primer-HighRes.pdf Baha’i Earth-Based Spirituality Buddhism Hinduism Christianity: Anabaptist Humanism Anglican/Episcopal Islam Christian Science Jainism Evangelical Judaism Jehovah’s Witnesses Native American/ American Indigenous Religion Mormonism Scientology Orthodox Shinto Pentecostal Sikh Faith Protestantism (Mainline) Taoism Roman Catholicism Zoroastrianism
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 Sikhism 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 Religions https://study.com/academy/course/history-of-major-world-religions-study-guide.html
Overview of World Religions organized by tradition 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 Traditions Christianity Paganism Confucianism Shinto Daoism Sikhism Hinduism Unitarian Universalism 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, Theology, Ethics, Mythology, and Practices https://neo-paganism.org/elements-of-neo-paganism/
Paganism Federation Druidry, Witchcraft and Wicca, Heathenry, Polytheism, Hellenism, and Rituals 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 Korea 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 Syncretism 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 Satan Intelligent Design Presbyterianism Taoism
Aladura Confucianism Islam Priory of Sion Tendai Buddhism
Amish Conservative Jainism Protestantism Theravada Judaism Buddhism Anglicanism Jehovah's Witnesses Pure Land Deism Buddhism Tibetan Buddhism Asatru Judaism Donatism Quakers Typhonian Order Assemblies of God Kabbalah Dragon Rouge Rastafarianism Umbanda Atheism Kemetic Druze Reconstructionism Reform Judaism Unification Church Baha'i Faith Eastern Orthodox Lutheranism Rinzai Zen Unitarian Baptists Church Buddhism Universalism Mahayana Buddhism Bon Eckankar Roman Religion Vaishnavism Mayan Religion Buddhism ELCA Satanism Vajrayana Methodism Buddhism Candomble Epicureanism Scientology Mithraism Vedanta Cao Dai Evangelicalism Seventh-Day Mormonism Adventism Vineyard Cathari Falun Gong Churches Neopaganism Shaivism Catholicism Foursquare Voodoo Church New Age Shi'a Islam Charismatic Westboro Baptist movement Gnosticism New Thought Shinto Church
Chinese Religion Greek Religion Nichiren Sikhism Wicca
Christadelphians Hare Krishna Norse Religion Soto Zen Worldwide Buddhism Church of God Christian Science Hasidism Olmec Religion Spiritualism Yezidi Christianity Hellenic Oneness Reconstructionism Pentecostalism Stoicism Zen Church of God Hinduism Orthodox Judaism Sufism Zionism Church of God in Christ Illuminati Pentecostalism Sunni Islam Zoroastrianism
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