Sacred Texts – The Internet Sacred Text Archive
This comprehensive website offers a huge collection of full texts of revered and respected books and writings from religion, mythology, legends and folklore, and on occult and esoteric topics. This website is a freely available non-profit archive of electronic texts presented in English translation and, in some cases, in the original language. This is
Many religious and spiritual works are available online with the complete text. Texts include those most basic to various religious experiences. Below is a list of some of the websites offering full text versions of important religious and spiritual writing. These websites will be valuable to anyone studying religion and spitituality or who would like to know more about beliefs around the world.
First on this list is a website offering a vast number of full texts on many religious and spiritual topics and all archived at one site. After this first link are other links to websites offering full texts specific to various religious or spiritual viewpoints.
not a website of merely links to other websites but a full archive on its own. The website owner states “This is a quiet place in cyberspace devoted to religious tolerance and scholarship.”
Text topics include African, Age of Reason, Alchemy, Americana, Ancient Near East, Atlantis, Baha’I, Book of Shadows, Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, DNA, Egyptian, Esoteric and Occult, Fortean, Goddesses, Gothic, Greek and Roman, Grimoires, Hinduism, I Ching, Islam, Jainism, Journals, Judiasm, Legands and Sagas, Mormonism, Native American, NeoPaganism and Wicca, Nostradamus, Oahspe, Paleolithic, Pri Re’is Map, Prophecy, Sacred Books of the East, Sacred Sexuality, Sacred Time, Shamanism, Shinto, Sikhism, Sufi, Tantra, Taoism, Thelema, Theosophy, Utopia, Women, and Zoroastrianism. This website is truly a gift and is a must visit for anyone interested in world religions and beliefs.
The majority of the texts and writings from Sacred Texts are also gathered and available for purchase on one CD-ROM. There is a very reasonable charge for the CD-ROM and profits are used to maintain the website.
MORE RESOURCES FOR SACRED TEXTS ONLINE
General
Religous Studies Webguide
Extensive list of links to sacred texts from Bahai, Bible, Buddhist, Christian, confucian, Hindu, Islamic, Jain, Jewish, Sikh, Taoist, Unification Church, Zoroastrain, and more.
Baha'i
Bahh’i Sacred Writings
Texts at Baha'i World include selections from the Writings of Baha'ullah, the Bab, Abdu'l-Baha, Shoghi Effendi, and others.
Buddhism
Buddhism Writings Archive
Buddhanet offers an extensive archive of Buddhist texts in PDF format.
Tipitaka, The Pali Canon
Access to Insight offers Tipitaka, The Pali Canon, a browsable set of texts including Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path, and remarks on the texts.
Dhammapada, Wisdom of the Buddah
Offers text from Theosophical University Press Online Edition translated to English by Harischandra Kaviratna.
Christianity
The Unbound Bible
The Unbound Bible is sponsored by Biola University and includes nine English versions (with the NASB), a Greek and Hebrew version, four ancient versions, and twenty-eight versions in other languages. The versions are searchable and study aids are available.
King James Version Bible
The full text is provided by the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative and offers both searching and browsing capabilities.
New American Bible
The National Conference of Catholic Bishops, United States Catholic Conference provides the entire New American Bible in a browsable or by book format.
The Book of Morman
Provided by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this website includes the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price.
Revised Standard Version Bible
The full text is provided by the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative and offers both searching and browsing capabilities.
New International Version Bible
The full text of the New International Version Bible, Today's New International Version, and the New International Reader's Version are provided by the International Bible Society in both reading and searchable formats.
Christian Science - Science and Health by Mary Baker G. Eddy
The full text is provided by Spirituality.com, along with the King James Bible and Mary Baker Eddy’s biography.
Nag Hammadi Library
The Nag Hammadi Library, a collection of thirteen ancient codices containing over fifty texts, was discovered in upper Egypt in 1945. This immensely important discovery includes a large number of primary Gnostic scriptures -- texts once thought to have been entirely destroyed during the early Christian struggle to define "orthodoxy" -- scriptures such as the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Philip, and the Gospel of Truth.
Confucianism
Confucian Analects
The full text of the Confucian Analects, King Tzu Confucius, 500BC. Translation by James Legge.
Confucian and Legalist Texts
A large collection of Confucian and Legalist, Daoist, translated Chinese texts, and Chinese culture texts at CUNY Brooklyn.
Hinduism
The Bhagavad Gita
The full text of the Bhagavad Gita in English translation by Dr. Ramanand Prasad of the American Gita Society. This text is offered by the Exploring Ancient World Cultures project and sponsored online by the University of Evansville.
Rig Veda
1889 translation by Griffith.
Islam
The Holy Qur’an
The full text of the Koran is provided by the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative and offers both searching and browsing capabilities.
Hadith and Sunnah
Sponsored by the University of Southern California Muslim Students' Association, this website provides full texts of Hadith and Sunnah collections and a searchable database.
Judaism
The Hebrew-English Bible
According to the Masoretic text and the JPS 1917 edition. Includes the Torah, Prophets, and Writings. Available in English and four versions in Hebrew.
The Tanakh
The Jewish Publication Society translation of the Tanakh is provided by the Jewish Virtual Library and includes a browsable, full text.
Kabbalah
Large site with much Kabbalah information and study resources.
The Tanach
Offers a large compilation of Tanach extracts in English translation.
Neo-Paganism and Wicca
Neo-Paganism and Wicca Writings
Part of the Internet Sacred Texts Archive, this website offers an extensive collection of links to versions of sacred texts and other works concerning classical (Greek and Roman) paganism, Asatru, Shamanism, Wicca, and more.
Scientology
What is Scientology
The full text of the book covering the basic beliefs, practices and activities of the Scientology religion. Includes the creed, codes and the Scientology catechism.
Scientology: Theology and Practice of a Contemporary Religion
Full text of a reference work presented by The Church of Scientology International. Available in nine languages.
Scientology Handbook
The Scientology reference work used by Scientology Volunteer Ministers to help others overcome problems in life. Includes Scientology techniques to improve such things as relationships, overcome drugs, illiteracy and work problems.
Taoism
Tao-Te Ching
The full text of the Tao-Te Ching can be browsed chapter by chapter. There are also some calligraphic representations of the chapters.
