Pope Benedict has said the Harry Potter books “erode Christianity in the soul” of young people according to a July 15, 2005, Manchester Evening News article.

Ananda Marga is a global network of centers in nearly every country that provides support and education focused on the welfare of humanity and the world. The organization promotes meditation centers, schools, children’s homes, food distribution centers, disaster relief organizations and community development projects. The organization’s mission is twofold; “self-realization and the welfare of the universe.”

Read the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Zhuangzi, one of the major foundational texts of Taoism.

The main website of the Om Sakthi movement posts a page on the history and objectives of the movement.

TheBabylonMatrix.com posts a page explaining the terminology of the New Age movement. The information is adapted and excerpted from work by David L. Brown.

See a glossary of terms relevant to the Buddhist faith.

JainWorld.com maintains a dictionary of words important in Jainism.

Hindu.net posts a glossary of Sanskrit terms.

AccessToInsight.org posts John Bullitt’s “A Glossary of Pali and Buddhist Terms.”