Religious Studies: Stats &
Reference

Links to contacts for various faiths practiced at MU: Bahai Faith, Buddhism, Christianity, Christianity (LGBT-friendly), Christianity (Predominantly African-American), Hinduism, Interfaith, Islam, Judaism, Paganism

MU's CRP has a nice collection of videos that they will lend for free, as well as a serious of Religious Literacy Toolkits.

Funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc., and housed at Penn State University, the ARDA collection includes denominational family trees, data on churches and church membership, religious professionals, religious groups and the public opinion on religious matters. Document types include maps, tables, graphs, survey questionnaires and learning modules.

International section of the ARDA site. Contains searchable international data including national profiles and national and regional comparative data.

Using mapping technology, users can view data on religion at national, state or county levels. Text, image, and multimedia formats are also available.

Surveys, demographic analysis and other social science research on important and timely aspects of religion and public life in the U.S. and around the world.

Basic information on 20 of the world's major religions

Publicly funded research site bringing together multiple statistical data sets (current, recent and historical) on religion in Britain

Maintained since 1995 by the Library of Congress and the University of Calgary, searchable and browsable by religious group, topic or format, this site attempts to guide the reader through religious studies information available online.

The Religion News Service, run by the Religion Newswriters Foundation, headquartered in the National Press Building in Washington, D.C., with an office at the MU School of Journalism, aims to be the largest single source of news about religion, spirituality and ideas.