A world religion is a belief system that is generally recognized as having independent status from any other religion, but which may nevertheless include many, at time mutually antagonistic, sects or denominations. The world's chief religions and spiritual traditions are categorized into major groupings.
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Adherents is a collection of regularly updated statistics and citations on religious geography, mostly references to published membership and congregation statistics for religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures and movements throughout the world, in an effort to track the religions of the world. - Adherents
http://www.adherents.com/
As a society and professional association of teachers and research scholars from colleges, universities, seminaries and schools throughout North America, the AAR is focused on furthering knowledge of religion and religious institutions in all of their forms, meeting its goals through regional conferences and meetings, publications, programs and membership services, which are described here. - American Academy of Religion
http://www.aarweb.org/
Sacred Texts is a freely available archive of online books about religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric, categorized by subject matter and type, or accessible through a search by title, author, or subject. - Internet Sacred Text Archive
http://www.sacred-texts.com/
A multidisciplinary view of the spiritual world, created by a mechanical engineer from Mexico. The site strives to show the range of human beliefs by cataloging a wide variety of articles on all the major religions as well as several esoteric beliefs. Attempts to combine various religions and scientific ideals into a "meta-religion". - Meta Religion
http://www.meta-religion.com/
Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
The OCRT is purposed for the dissemination of religious information on the many faith groups within the United States and Canada, informing people of their range of beliefs and historical development, with particular emphasis given on exposing what its members may view as religious fraud, hatred, and misinformation, particularly intolerance. - Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
http://www.religioustolerance.org/
Intended as a guide for students, teachers, journalists and religious professionals, Religion Facts seeks to be an objective and comprehensive guide to religions, both ancient and modern, as well as other ways of life, philosophies, teachings, and anti-religion systems. Resources available include a chart of the major religions of the world, an alphabetical directory, comparisons, religious symbols, and a glossary of terms. - Religion Facts
http://www.religionfacts.com/
Maintained by Dr. Raeburn Wallen, this site is constructed so as to answer questions and provide information for those wanting to learn more about world religions. Photographs, links to external web sites, music, books, and other resources are included. - World Religion Prof
http://www.worldreligionprof.com/
Written and compiled from a Christian perspective, and intended to help Christians to understand other world faiths and religious philosophies, the Index features personal stories from people who have experienced a variety of other religious philosophies, articles and comparison studies, and tables offering data on a wide variety of world religions. - World Religions Index
http://wri.leaderu.com/
World Religions, Cults and Sects
This database of religious and spiritual groups may be located alphabetically, the major religions may be viewed, ranked by size, or by categories, such as Western, Eastern, Occult, Secret, Ancient, Atheism, and Esoteric, along with an overview of religions and other topics. - World Religions, Cults and Sects
http://www.religion-cults.com/
A project of the National Council of Churches USA, in consultation with journalists, journalism school faculty, faith group news directors and participating faith groups, WFN consists of a database of full-text news releases from religious bodies, and other documents, such as policy statements. - Worldwide Faith News
http://www.wfn.org/