Historian D. Michael Quinn is the author of several scholarly books about Mormons, including Early Mormonism and the Magic World View (Signature Books, 1998). In 1997, the American Historical Association gave him a best-book award for Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example (University of Illinois Press, 1996). He has worked as an independent scholar since 1988, when […]

Kathryn Daynes is an assistant history professor at Brigham Young University in Utah with expertise on Mormon plural marriage. She wrote More Wives Than One: Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910 (University of Illinois Press, 2001).

Brahma Kumaris is a spiritual, educational institution that works to promote humanism, tolerance and enthusiasm for spreading Hinduism across the globe. The institute is located in India.

The Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture provides educational resources on religions around the world, including each of their different practices, beliefs and histories. It is based in Kolkata, India.

Read the full electronic text of the Koran, posted by University of Michigan and translated by M.H. Shakir. The site allows users to search Koran through key words, chapters and phrases.

Read the full electronic text of the Book of Mormon, posted by University of Michigan and provided by Project Gutenberg. It allows users to search via keywords, individual books or phrases.

The “Unbound Bible” has 10 English versions of the Bible, Greek and Hebrew versions, four ancient versions and 42 versions in various other languages. Allows users to set up a personalized account with places for study links and customized search tools. It is hosted by Biola University.

See an article on how to find religious texts online, as well as a link to BibleGateway, a service of The Gospel Communications Network.

The Internet Public Library provides a listing of full-text works. It is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan School of Information.