Bibliographies

Collections of Articles

Mission Review/NSM Knowledge Base articles on Folk Religions (and sub-topics)

Mission Review/NSM Knowledge Base articles on New Religions Movemens (and sub-topics)

Other Articles

Britannica.com Folk Religions Materials: Accesses the Britannica.com site with the search for "Folk Religions."

Contemporary Papers on Japanese Religion: "This series is a collection of recent studies on Japanese religion, translated from Japanese into English by Norman Havens. It is one of the important purposes of the establishment of the Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics to promote the international exchange of researchers and scholarly information relating to Japanese culture. Toward that end, we have published three volumes of papers, and are preparing to publish the fourth volume."

The Dangki in Contemporary Taiwan: A 1995 AAR Collaborative Grant assisted Professor Ron Guey Chu of Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan, and me [John A. Grim] in our continuing inquiry into the ritual practices and religious context of the Taiwanese dangki (divining youth). These are local healing and divining personalities, either male or female, who still function in urban and rural settings throughout Taiwan. Although dangki can be found throughout the island, we focused on Tainan county in southern Taiwan.

The Mosque in America report (part of a larger study of American congregations called "Faith Communities Today"coordinated by Hartford Seminary's Hartford Institute for Religious Research).

"Syncretism."

"Taiwan's Ancestor Cult: A Contextualized Gospel Approach."

Symbol Sites

Akan Cultural Symbols Project homepage

Cultural Symbols of India

National Cultural Symbols in Art homepage

Myth Sites

Librarians' Index to the Internet Mythology LInks (more than a dozen important mythology links, including an encyclopedia, several directories, and specific resources.)

Religious Mythology Links (from Rutgers Virtual Religion Pages)

Chinese Myths and Fantasies (China Vista collection of Chinese myths; the related link at the bottom of the page gives themes, an historical overview, etc.)

Bulfinch's Mythology Text on-line.

Chinese Legends and Tales   (another collection of 25 Chinese myths)

Encyclopedia Mythica: (a searchable online encyclopedia of myth, folklore, and legend)

Folk and Fairy Tales (a large collection of links maintained by a professor of Germanic languages at Pitt)

Mythology Links (This site provides active links to many mythological Web pages)

A Collaborative Myths and Legends Project ("Students in each of our ESL or developmental writing classes retold myths, tales, fables, or legends as they remembered them from their own culture. This page is a compilation of that project after the students collaborated to decide how the entire collection fit together. The Kapiolani Community College students used a paint program to create the pictures which accompany their myths.")

Electronic Folklore Journals (The Penn State library provides this source which gives you links to academic journals of folklore)

Russian Folk Tales and Folk Belief

Directories and References for mythology and folkore hosted by the University System of Georgia.

Myths of Nine Cultures

Yaqui Indian contextualized celebration of Easter

Russian Proverbs and Sayings

Myth Connections: Africa (Yale-New Haven Teaching Institute)

Culture and Tradition: Canadian Graduate Student Journal of Folklore and Ethnology

French Fairy Tales Resource Page Links to multiple sites with reviews of the sites

Folklore, Myth, and Legend: Comprehensive access to different stories, as well as sites with historical information about folklore.

Palestinian Folklore Homepage: Palestinian songs, proverbs, stories and information on Palestine and Islam.

American Folklore Society Homepage: Includes a folklore search engine.

Mything Links: annotated and illustrated collection of worldwide links to mythologies, fairy tales and folklore, sacred arts and traditions.

Folk Stories and Myths: Simple Search's directory to folktales from around the world.