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The Electric Mystic's Guide to the Internet

A Complete Bibliography of Networked Electronic Documents, Online Conferences, Serials, Software and Archives Relevant to Religious Studies.

VOLUME THREE of THREE VOLUMES

LOW ASCII VERSION

Version 1.3

November 1992

Michael Strangelove

University of Ottawa Department of Religious Studies

Copyright 1992 by Michael Strangelove.

All rights reserved. This bibliography may be archived for public use in electronic or other media, as long as it is maintained in its entirety and no fee is charged to the user; any exception to this restriction requires the written consent of the author.

Michael Strangelove Religious Studies Department University of Ottawa 177 Waller Ottawa, Ontario CANADA K1N 6N5

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This bibliography was made possible through the support of the Research Centre for the Study of Religion, Department of Religious Studies, University of Ottawa, and through funding from the American Academy of Religion.

HOW TO OBTAIN A COPY

Volumes One and Three of the Electric Mystic's Guide are freely available via the international academic networks (BITNET/Internet) from the CONTENTS Project fileserver via FTP from the node panda1.uottawa.ca (137.122.6.16) in the directory /pub/religion/ as the files:

Volume One:

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from Listserv@uottawa or Listserv@acadvm1.uottawa.ca

Volume Two is not yet available.

* Table of Contents -- VOLUME THREE *

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

1. Online Academic Conferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 How to Make the Most of Online Discussion Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Directories of Listserv Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 How to Subscribe to Online Discussion Groups. . . . . . . 9 Retrieving Logbooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 BITNET and Internet Religious Studies Related Lists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Bahai Faith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Buddhist Discussion Group (BUDDHA-L) . . . . . . . . 13 Christian Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Christian Thought and Literature in Late Antiquity (ELENCHUS). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Classics Discussion (CLASSICS). . . . . . . . . . . 15 Discussion of Beliefs and Practices of Conservative Judaism (CJ-L) . . . . . . . . 15 Eastern Orthodox Christianity Discussion (EOCHR-L) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Generic Religions and Secret Societies . . . . . . . 16 Godly Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 History of American Catholicism (AMERCATH). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 History and Theory of the Occult (ARCANA). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 History of The Ancient Mediterranean (ANCIEN-L). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 History of Evangelical Christianity (HISTEC-L). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Global Christianity discussion (GLOBLX- L). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Indian and Buddhist Studies (BUDDHIST) . . . . . . . 22 The International Forum for First Century Judaism and Christian Origins (IOUDAIOS). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 InterVarsity Christian Fellowship List (IVCF-L). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Islam Discussion Group (ISLAM-L) . . . . . . . . . . 24 The Islamic Information and News Network (MUSLIMS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Issues And Questions of Concern to Observant Jews (BALTUVA). . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Jewish & Near Eastern Studies (JUDAICA). . . . . . . 25 Later Day Saints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Liberal Judaism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 LITURGY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Malaysian Islamic Study Group (MISG-L) . . . . . . . 28 Masonic Digest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 New Testament Greek Studies Conference (NT-GREEK). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Old Testament Hebrew Studies (OT- HEBREW) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Orthodox Christianity (ORTHODOX) . . . . . . . . . . 30 Pagan Religion and Philosophy (PAGAN). . . . . . . . 31 Personal Ideologies (BELIEF-L) . . . . . . . . . . . 31 The Progressive Jewish Activism List (PJAL). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Religions Discussion Group (RELIGION). . . . . . . . 33 Religious Communication and Contexts (RELICOM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 The Religious Society of Friends (QUAKER- L). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Shaker - A forum on the United Society of Believers (SHAKER). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Social Scientific Study of Religion (SSREL-L) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Women, Religion, and Feminist Theology (FEMREL-L). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 USENET -- General Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 USENET Religious Studies Related Newsgroups . . . . . . . 37 Discussion of the Baha'i Faith -- SOC.RELIGION.BAHAI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Christianity and Related Topics -- SOC.RELIGION.CHRISTIAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Discussions of Eastern Religions -- SOC.RELIGION.EASTERN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Discussions of the Islamic Faith -- SOC.RELIGION.ISLAM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

2. Electronic Journals and Newsletters. . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Directory of Electronic Journals and Newsletters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Bulletin of The General Theological Library of Bangor Theological Seminary. . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Christian Growth Newsletter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 IOUDAIOS Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 The Postmodern Jewish Philosophy BITNETWORK . . . . . . . 42 Religious Studies Publications Journal - CONTENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 OFFLINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Newsletter. . . . . . . . . . . 48 Inactive Electronic Religious Studies Serials. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

3. Ecunet and PresbyNet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

4. Networked Organizations and Associations . . . . . . . . . 51

Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

(Note that the Index is not included in the low ascii version of the Electric Mystic's Guide.)

* Table of Contents -- VOLUME ONE *

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

The Networks Covered in this Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . 3 How to Retrieve Documents Listed in This Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Retrieving Documents via Listserv . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Retrieving Documents via FTP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Using BITFTP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Searching Listserv Logbooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 A Note to Moderators, Authors and Maintainers of Networked Documents . . . . . . . . . 9

Network Accessible Documents

1. Anthropology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2. Articles and Prepublication Papers. . . . . . . . . . . 12 3. Bible Study Aids and Software Programs. . . . . . . . . 16 4. Bibliographies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 5. Book Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 6. Buddhism and Related Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 7. Contemporary Jewry and Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 8. The CONTENTS Project Miscellaneous Files. . . . . . . . 28 9. Course Outlines, Seminar Syllabi and Glossaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 10. Electronic Texts and Databases (CDROMS and Others) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 11. IOUDAIOS Miscellaneous Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 12. Islamic Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 13. Journal Indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 14. Lists in Review Supplements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 15. Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 16. Online E-Mail Address Compilations. . . . . . . . . . . 40 17. RELIGION Miscellaneous Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 18. Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 19. Sacred Texts (Networked Electronic Versions). . . . . . 45 20. Software/Hardware Reviews and Information Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 21. Software Programs for Religious Studies . . . . . . . . 50 22. Thesis and Dissertations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 23. Thesis and Dissertations -- Abstracts . . . . . . . . . 52

Index of Document Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Index of Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Index of Author's E-Mail Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

* Introduction *

The Electric Mystic's Guide is a non-technical survey of all major documents, archives and services of relevance to religious studies and related fields that are available through the international, academic computer networks commonly referred to as the Net (BITNET, Internet and affiliated networks). This includes networked papers, reviews, book notes, dissertations, major sacred texts, software programs, electronic mail address collections, general information files, data banks, electronic journals, newsletters, online discussion groups, specialized commercial and public networks, and relevant networked organizations, associations, institutions and companies. It should be noted that the Electric Mystic's Guide is not meant to be a handbook on how to use the Net, and thus assumes a certain level of familiarity with FTP, Telnet, Listserv and other Net operating programs. Users hits and tips have been included throughout the Guide.

It is interesting to note that the majority of the approximately 200 files documented (in Volume One) have been placed on the Net in the last twenty four months. This would suggest that the end of this decade will see well over two thousand networked documents relevant to religious studies. The number of religious studies and related scholars presently online is unknown but certainly exceeds ten thousand. No comprehensive electronic mail address book for religious studies exists at this point in time. We can look forward to a proliferation of specialized archives over the next few years. At present, I am aware of Aboriginal, Buddhism, Early Christianity and Judaism, Jewish, and Social Sciences networked archives (see Table of Contents, Volume Two).

Electronic mail addresses given within this Guide are in BITNET and Internet format, unless otherwise stated. Login to FTP nodes listed herein as anonymous with your e-mail address as the password unless otherwise stated. All other aspects of this Guide are system neutral. Travellers on the Net should note that there are many versions of Telnet and FTP software and a variety of login procedures. Most systems will offer some form of help if you enter the command HELP or ?.

The Electric Mystic's Guide was previously written as one complete document but has been divided into three volumes, due to its growing size and technical restrictions within some systems on the size of network accessible manuscripts. The Guide has the following format: Volume One documents a wide variety of over 200 networked files of direct and indirect relevance to religious studies and related fields. The selection of material was based on the scholarly nature of the documents or their significance as general information files. No attempt has been made to document every file related to religion on the Net, due to the transient nature, and questionable academic value of some of the material that has be placed on network fileservers. If a document has been overlooked that the reader feels should be listed in the Electric Mystic's Guide, please contact the author with details of its content and location. Volume One also has extensive information on how to retrieve documents listed in this Guide, how to use Listserv and FTP, and how to search Listserv logbooks.

Volume Two provides detailed information on networked document archives of interest to the religious studies field. Volume Three provides information on relevant networked organizations, online academic conferences, journals and newsletters, and commercial religious studies related networks and various other animals to be found within the emerging Electric Gaia. Each volume will also feature a glossary of terms and a glossary of commands. [Not yet written].

Each volume has an index of document titles. Volume One also includes an index of authors and an index of author's electronic mail addresses. The low ascii versions of the Electric Mystic's Guide do not contain these indexes.

NOTE: Volume Two has not yet been made available on the Net.

A Note to New Networkers

It is impossible for this guide to tell you everything that you will need to know about using the Net. It is therefore strongly recommended that the new networker begin by identifying local support personnel and make friends with them (take them out to dinner, buy them a large gift), take a course or two in the use of electronic mail and related stuff and subscribe, as soon as you know how, to the online forum, HELP-NET. Send the e-mail message SUBSCRIBE HELP-NET your name to LISTSERV@TEMPLEVM. HELP-NET is intended for the new user and is the best online forum for asking questions about how to use the Net and find information within it. An index is available that lists very helpful information files available from the HELP-NET fileserver. Send the command INDEX HELP-NET to LISTSERV@TEMPLEVM for the index of files.

The Electric Mystic's Guide assumes that the reader has a basic grasp of electronic mail (e-mail) and is able to send mail on his or her own local system. It also assume that the reader has already installed a modem and knows how to use their own person computer and communication software. The numerous types of mainframe systems and communication software make it impossible for the Guide to give details on how to download (or upload) a file or program from a mainframe to a personal computer. The author is presently writing a general guide to the Internet for Van Nostrand Reinhold Press (forthcoming, 1993). The Electric Mystic's Guide will eventually be thoroughly cross-referenced to the VNR Guide to the Internet so that new users may quickly find more information on how to use the Net.

WARNING: I cannot possibly answer every query from readers concerning how to use e-mail, upload files, install a modem, unzip a file or overcome unrequited love. The main intention behind this Guide is not to instruct the reader on how to overcome every unforeseeable problem but to equip the reader with basic resources, direct to appropriate online forums, and engender skills that will help the new networker become proficient at mining the Net. I will gladly answer queries concerning errors and problems within the Electric Mystic's Guide. Inappropriate queries will receive a pre-written reply that directs the reader to more appropriate online sources of instruction and information.

* 1. Online Academic Conferences *

One of the best features of the Net are online discussion groups. These discussion groups allow people from all around the globe to communicate within a topically focused forum. Online discussion groups or academic conferences are referred to as conferencing systems, special interest groups (SIGs), newsgroups (USENET based groups), Listserv lists (BITNET based groups), Interest Groups (Internet based groups), and bulletin boards (bulletin board is the term usually used for discussion groups on commercial networks). Online discussion groups are managed by an individual or group of people variously referred to as one of the following: coordinator, editor, facilitator, moderator, monitor, owner, or sysop. The following section describes Listserv lists and Usenet newsgroups that are relevant to religious studies and related areas.

Online discussion groups function by redistributing any mail sent to the group to each member or subscriber. In the jargon of the Net, writing to a group is referred to as posting. If it is a question that is asked, this is then referred to as a query. Within BITNET, this process is referred to as posting a query to a list. If a member posts a message, it is almost instantly redistributed to every other member. This process permits everyone to "hear" what everyone else is "saying" within the group. The group moderator(s) ensures that discussions remain focused within the group's topic and also ensures that e- mail etiquette is maintained by all participants. Some moderators compile numerous postings together into digests, which are posted to the membership on a daily basis. Digests prevent a flood of individual postings from cluttering subscriber's mail boxes.

There are over two thousand different discussion groups covering topics of academic and social interest. The number of subscribers on online discussion groups range from a few dozen to thousands of members, with the largest discussion groups numbering in the tens of thousands of subscribers. Whether you are interested in homebrewing or ethnomusicology, chances are that you will find a topic of interest. These groups are like conferences that never end, interactive magazines, academic lounges that are always full (and never close), and function as research tools, social forums and virtual encyclopedias.

* IOUDAIOS -- A Success Story

One of the best examples of a productive and valuable academic online discussion group is the Listserv list, IOUDAIOS, also titled, The International Forum for First Century Judaism and Christian Origins. IOUDAIOS is devoted to the exploration of first-century Judaism with special interest in the writings of Philo of Alexandria and Flavius Josephus. This discussion group began as an informal seminar for the discussion of two papers by Robert A. Kraft but quickly blossomed into an international forum, with over 400 participants in North America, Europe, Australia, and The Middle East. IOUDAIOS now has an extensive Listserv fileserver archive of prepublication papers, subject glossaries and large bibliographies. IOUDAIOS also recently began disseminating electronic reviews of new books. A number of the prepublication papers were successfully published in various scholarly journals after benefiting from constructive comments from IOUDAIOS members.

The first moderator of IOUDAIOS was Steve Mason (York University). Professor Mason promoted the new online discussion group by writing to scholars around the globe and invited them to explore the world of online scholarship and join the group. Professor Mason then strove to ensure that the discussion remained focused, casual yet polite and professional. As a result of this unusual effort, IOUDAIOS membership is graced with many prominent scholars in the field of first-century Judaism and early Christianity. IOUDAIOS is now moderated by David Reimer (Wilfrid Laurier University).

The success of IOUDAIOS demonstrates how an academic online discussion group can foster research, facilitate the prepublication process and the dissemination of research and pedagogical material, and enable scholars around the globe to efficiently communicate with one another.

How to Make the Most of Online Discussion Groups

* Do Not Over Subscribe

Avoid the temptation to subscribe to numerous discussion groups at first. This will lead to your mailbox being flooded with mail. Some discussion groups send out more than twenty postings per day. Over subscribing can lead to receiving hundreds of messages a day. On some systems this will result in a full mailbox and troublesome technical problems. Start with one or two lists and ensure that the volume is not too heavy before moving on to explore others.

* Write Clearly and Concisely

Composing an e-mail posting is much like talking publicly in the faculty lounge. You should avoid being a windbag, using English poorly and saying anything libelous about colleagues. For computer mediated communication to be effective it is important to observe a few similar guidelines for composing an e-mail message to a discussion group. When writing, keep in mind that reading a long text on a computer screen is not entirely pleasant. Therefore, keep your postings to under one hundred lines. If you need more length, break the message up into sections and give each section a subject heading: Part One, Part Two and so on. NOTE THAT WRITING IN CAPITAL LETTERS IS LIKE SHOUTING AND IS ALWAYS ANNOYING. If you have a question to ask, it is always best to limit each posting to one question at a time, so as to not overwhelm your readers. Take the time to write properly and spell correctly, as poor grammar and spelling will simply encourage the reader to ignore you and use the DELETE key. The tone of your letter should be as polite as possible, because electronic text does not convey all the subtle body language clues that soften humour, sarcasm and wit. Always remember that your posting is public, will likely be recorded on a university mainframe somewhere, and if poorly written or libelous may end up on a faculty lounge wall or lawyer's briefcase.

* Use the NOMAIL (Listserv) Command

When you are going to be away from your computer terminal for more than a few days, use the NOMAIL command to tell Listserv to stop sending you mail from Listserv lists while you are gone. To do this, send the following command interactively or as an e-mail message to the Listserv address of the discusson group (Listserv@node where node is the address of the list):

SET listname NOMAIL (where listname is the name of the list)

Do not send this and other commands to the list's mailing address (the address you use to post messages), as this will lead to the command being posted to all of the list's subscribers. This is embarrassing for you and annoying to others.

It is best to write down the list name and address of each Listserv list that is set to NOMAIL so that you will remember to set these lists back to MAIL upon return with the command:

SET listname MAIL

Using the NOMAIL command will save you the annoyance of a full mailbox upon return and will prevent error messages from being returned to the list moderator. List moderators frequently unsubscribe members whose mailboxes are returning error messages.

In the event that you forget if you have set a list to either MAIL or NOMAIL, you can send the following command to the Listserv address of the list:

QUERY listname

This command, when sent to Listserv, will return a message that tells you how your distribution options are presently set for any given Listserv list.

If you fear missing some interesting postings as a result of using the NOMAIL command it is possible to retrieve the list's logbooks from the period you were away. Listserv logbooks record all postings to the list in monthly logs. To retrieve an index of a list's logbook, send the following command interactively or as an e-mail message to the Listserv address of the discusson group (Listserv@node where node is the address of the list):

INDEX listname (where listname is the name of the list)

For more information on retrieving Listserv logbooks, see the section Retrieving Logbooks below, page 11.

* Use the DELETE Key

Many new networkers succumb to the temptation to read every posting sent to a discussion group. This is no more necessary or productive than reading every item in a newspaper or journal. By paying attention to the subject headings and through a liberal use of the DELETE key (or your systems equivalent command), it is possible to wade through a large number of postings quickly and efficiently. Always give a subject heading to any e-mail message as a courtesy to others.

* Take Care When Replying

Occasionally, you will read a message from an online discussion group and want to reply to the individual who wrote the posting but not to the whole group. Some systems have a REPLY command that will allow you to compose a reply without retyping the entire e-mail address. This REPLY command will send your reply back to the entire list, not just to the person who wrote the original posting. REPLY (or your system's equivalent command) must be used with care to avoid sending a personal and private note to an entire list. This mistake occurs quite often on the Net and has been the source of acute embarrassment. Therefore, when you use the REPLY key, always check the mail header to see where your reply is being sent. Some VM/CMS systems have a REPLY FROM command that will return your note only to the person who wrote the original posting to a list. Both REPLY and REPLY FROM should be used with extreme caution if your message is personal and private.

* Subscribe to NEW-LIST

NEW-LIST is an information service that posts messages concerning newly created lists. List changes and deletions are also announced here. This is also a forum for asking if a list on a certain topic presently exists. To subscribe, send the command to Listserv@ndsuvm1

SUB NEW-LIST Yourfirstname Yourlastname

Subscription to NEW-LIST list is highly recommended for all networkers.

* Start A New Discussion Group

If you find that there is no existing group for the topic you wish to discuss, talk to your system administration or postmaster. It is usually not difficult to obtain permission to start a new online discussion group if there is sufficient justification. Before doing so, ensure that a group similar to the one you wish to start does not already exist. You should also talk to someone who moderates an online discussion group, to find out how much work is involved, and also retrieve and read the article How to Start a BITNET LISTSERV Discussion Group: A Beginner's Guide, by Diane Kovacs et al. Available from PACS-L, Listserv@uhupvm1 or Listserv@uhupvm1.uh.edu as KOVACS PRV2N1.

Directories of Listserv Lists

The following is information regarding a variety of Listserv list directories presently available on the Net. These directories will help you find online discussion groups for personal interest or as research forums.

* BITNET Listserv Global List of Public Listserv Lists

This directory contains brief information on all of the discussion groups on BITNET. Check first whether a copy of the list is kept locally. To retrieve this document, send the command to any Listserv:

LIST GLOBAL

On Internet, send the above command as a mail message to Listserv@vm1.nodak.edu. A 3000 line file named Listserv Lists will be returned.

The directory Listserv Lists is constantly updated and can be searched remotely to find more Listserv lists. Send the following command to Listserv:

LIST GLOBAL /keyword

where keyword is the discussion group topic that interests you. Some relevant keywords for religion related lists are muslim, islam, buddha, buddhist, native, christ, ministry, jew, orthodox, pagan, hebrew, mason, evangel, occult, religion and catholic.

* SRI NIC Maintained Interest-Groups List of Lists

The SRI network service maintains an extensive directory of list descriptions, variously known as Interest Groups List of Lists, Interests-Groups, SIGLIST and Interests Lists. To retrieve this directory, send the following command to mail-server@nisc.sri.com

SEND NETINFO/INTEREST-GROUPS

The above command will return twenty-six files, each approximately 800 lines long. Further information on the NIC server itself is available with the command SEND HELP. This document is also available via FTP as interest-groups.Z from the node ftp.nisc.sri.com in the directory /netinfo/. This file is over 900K in size, so ensure that you have sufficient disk space to receive the document.

* Dartmouth Merged List of Internet and BITNET Lists

Dartmouth University maintains a combined list of over 2,500 BITNET based Listserv lists and Internet based interest groups. To retrieve this directory, send the following commands to Listserv@dartcms1 or Listserv@dartcms1.dartmouth.edu

INDEX SIGLISTS SEND LISTTEXT PACKAGE

This document is also available via FTP as a variety of files from the node dartcms1.dartmouth.edu (129.170.16.19) in the directory /siglists/. There is also a Macintosh hypercard application as well as VM/CMS, VAX/VMS and UNIX applications that format, display and search the Dartmouth List of Lists. Retrieve the READ.ME file from the above FTP directory for more information.

* Dartmouth INTGROUP Database Server

Dartmouth University also maintains a searchable database that consists of the SIR Interest Groups list, the BITNET Listserv Global List, and the archives of the NEW-LIST Listserv list. Send the command INFO DATABASE to Listserv for complete information on how to search this database.

* Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences

The best organized directory of academic discussion groups is Diane Kovacs' Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences. This directory contains information on over 800 online conferences of interest to scholars.

The latest revision of the Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences is available via e-mail to Listserv@kentvm or Listserv@ksuvxa.kent.edu (file names listed below) and via anonymous FTP to the node ksuvxa.kent.edu in the directory /library/.

The files available are:

ACADLIST README (explanatory notes for the Directory with an index) ACADLIST FILE1 (Anthropology--Education) ACADLIST FILE2 (Futurology--Latin American Studies) ACADLIST FILE3 (Library and Information Science-- Music) ACADLIST FILE4 (Political Science--Writing) ACADLIST FILE5 (biological sciences) ACADLIST FILE6 (physical sciences) ACADLIST FILE7 (business and general academia) ACADLIST FILEx (and so on as new editions are released)

ACADWHOL HQX (binhexed self-decompressing Macintosh M.S. Word 4.0 document of all 6 directories) ACADSOCH HQX (binhexed self-decompressing Macintosh M.S. Word 4.0 document of the Social Science and Humanities files 1-3) ACADLIST CHANGES (all the major additions, deletions and alterations)

* For more information, contact:

Diane K. Kovacs Kent State University Libraries Kent, Ohio 44242 Phone: (216)672-3045 DKOVACS@kentvm or LIBRK329@kentvms DKOVACS@kentvm.kent.edu or LIBRK329@ksuvxa.kent.edu

Further information on directories of discussion groups can be had by retrieving the document Some Lists of Lists (compiled by Marty Hoag nu021172@vm1.nodak.edu). This directory is available via Listserv as LISTOF LISTS from Listserv@ndsuvm1 or Listserv@vm1.nodak.edu and is also available via FTP as listsof.list from the node vm1.nodak.edu (134.129.111.1) in the directory /new- list/.

How to Subscribe to Online Discussion Groups

There are three basic types of discussion groups; Listserv lists, Internet interest groups, and USENET newsgroups (USENET newsgroups are documented at the end of this section). To simplify the subscription process, each discussion group listed below has instructions indicating where a subscription request is to be sent. The following information is included with each documented discussion group:

Subscription Method: (Automatic to Server or By Moderator) Internet Subscription Address: (Use if you are on Internet) BITNET Subscription Address: (Use if you are on BITNET) Mailing Address: (Use this address to post to the discussion group) Number of Subscribers: (Total number of members) Logbooks: (Records of past group conversations) Other Archived Material: (Other files, such as papers and bibliographies) Gatewayed to USENET: (Some BITNET/Internet discussion groups are also available as USENET newsgroups) *Posting Volume: (Average number of postings per day)

*Not listed in this edition.

If the Subscription Method is listed as By Moderator, then to subscribe, send an e-mail message to the Subscription Request Address that includes your name, address and institutional affiliation with your request to subscribe. By Moderator indicates that the subscription request will be received and processed by the moderator of the discussion group.

If the Subscription Method is Automatic to Server, then send the following e-mail message to the Subscription Request Address.

SUBSCRIBE listname Yourfirstname Yourlastname

The listname will be indicated in the Subscription Method line. If you are on Internet, use the Internet address, if you are on BITNET, use the BITNET address. If a BITNET address is not available, BITNET users can use the Internet address.

Automatic to Server indicates that the subscription request will be received and processed automatically. The above command must be sent to the Subscription Request Address as indicated. Remember to leave the subject line blank and to turn off any automatic signature file. This is necessary as your subscription request will be processed automatically by a computer, not by a person.

The following is an example of how each discussion group is documented below:

* The International Forum for First Century Judaism and Christian Origins (IOUDAIOS)

Subscription Method: Automatic to Server: SUB IOUDAIOS Internet Subscription Address: Listserv@vm1.yorku.ca BITNET Subscription Address: Listserv@yorkvm1 Mailing Address: Ioudaios@yorkvm1 or Ioudaios@vm1.yorku.ca Number of Subscribers: 400 Logbooks: Yes Other Archived Material: Yes

To subscribe to this discussion group, send the following e-mail message to Listserv@yorkvm1 or Listserv@vm1.yorku.ca

SUB IOUDAIOS your name (Replace your name with your first and last name)

If you are on BITNET, this command can be sent interactively as follows:

TELL LISTSERV AT YORKVM1 SUB IOUDAIOS

To unsubscribe from a discussion group, use either the command UNSUB or SIGNOFF. Due to various technical problems that sometimes occur, it is recommended that you maintain a file that records the address of the discussion groups to which you subscribe, as well as the address you subscribed under (BITNET or Internet). To unsubscribe from IOUDAIOS, send the following e-mail message to Listserv@yorkvm1 or Listserv@vm1.yorku.ca

SIGNOFF IOUDAIOS

If you are on BITNET, this command can be sent interactively as follows:

TELL LISTSERV AT YORKVM1 SIGNOFF IOUDAIOS

Note that if subscription was done by a moderator, the moderator will have to unsubscribe you. A frequent mistake is to send these commands directly to the entire discussion group.

NOTE: Before subscribing to a Listserv list, each new user must send the following command to Listserv:

REGISTER your name

Replace your name with your own first and last name. This command tells Listserv how to address you.

Directions for online discussion groups that have a different method of subscribing then the above procedures will have instructions included with individual entries.

Retrieving Logbooks

Many online discussion groups keep records of past conversations in logbooks. To retrieve a list of logbooks and other files, send the command:

INDEX Listname (Where Listname is the Listserv name of the discussion group)

This command must be sent to the server address. For example, to get the index of files available from IOUDAIOS, send the command:

INDEX IOUDAIOS

to Listserv@yorkvm1 or Listserv@vm1.yorku.ca. Do not send the INDEX IOUDAIOS command to the address Ioudaios@yorkvm1 as this would result in the command being posted to all 400 subscribers.

This INDEX command will retrieve a file that lists all available logbooks and documents. Listserv indexes look like this following section from the CONTENTS filelist:

NOTEBOOK archives for the list CONTENTS (Monthly notebook)

filename filetype GET PUT fm lrecl nrecs Remarks -------- -------- --- --- --- ----- ----- ------------------------------- CONTENTS LOG9201 PRV OWN V 79 128 Started on Fri, 17 Jan 1992 CONTENTS LOG9202 PRV OWN V 79 2875 Started on Tue, 4 Feb 1992

The file name CONTENTS LOG9201 tells us that this file is the log of all postings to CONTENTS in January 1992. The code PRV (PRIVATE) under the column GET means that only members of this list may retrieve archived files and logbooks. If this code was ALL then both members and non-members could retrieve logbooks and files. In the column under nrecs the number 128 means that this logbook is 128 lines long. To retrieve this logbook, send the following command to either Listserv@yorkvm1 or Listserv@vm1.yorku.ca:

GET CONTENTS LOG9201

For information on searching Listserv logbooks, send the command GET LISTDB MEMO to any Listserv address (for example, to Listserv@uottawa or Listserv@acadvm1.uottawa.ca). Charles W. Bailey Jr., has written a simplified explanation of how to search Listserv logbooks. This document may be retrieved as the file pacsl_dbms.txt via FTP from the node hydra.uwo.ca in the directory /libsoft/.

BITNET and Internet Religious Studies Related Lists

The following information is based on Diane Kovacs' Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences and NEW- LIST, as well as a variety of other sources. All entries has been revised and expanded. In all cases, entries have been confirmed by group moderators to ensure accuracy.

* Bahai Faith

Subscription Method: By Moderator

Internet Subscription Address: bahai-faith@oneworld.wa.com BITNET Subscription Address: As above Mailing Address: bahai-faith-request@oneworld.wa.com Number of Subscribers: ? Logbooks: ? Other Archived Material: ? Gatewayed to USENET: Yes -- soc.religion.bahai

The discussion group will act as a non-threatening forum for discussing and sharing information about the tenets, history, and texts of the Baha'i Faith. Examples of posts that fall within the group's scope are: The Baha'i Faith's relation to other religions; relevance of Baha'i principles to current world events/problems; analysis of particular scriptural passages or themes; and general questions and answers.

Moderators:

Aaron Nabil Eastlund nabil@cse.ogi.edu or srb- mods@oneworld.wa.com Babak Kashef babak@canada.sun.com Mark Towfiq towfiq@ftp.com Rick Troxel rick@helix.nih.gov

* Buddhist Discussion Group (BUDDHA-L)

Subscription Method: Automatic to Server: SUB BUDDHA-L your name Internet Subscription Address: Listserv@ulkyvm.louisville.edu BITNET Subscription Address: Listserv@ulkyvm Mailing Address: buddha-l@ulkyvm or buddha-l@ulkyvm.louisville.edu Number of Subscribers: 248 Logbooks: Yes -- On Listserv Other Archived Material: No

BUDDHA-L is an electronic discussion group formed towards the end of providing a means for those interested in Buddhist Studies to exchange information and views. It is hoped that the group will function as an open forum for scholarly discussion of topics relating to the history, literature and languages, fine arts, philosophy, and institutions of all forms of Buddhism. It may also serve as a forum for discussion of issues connected to the teaching of Buddhist studies at the university level, and as a place for posting notices of employment opportunities.

The primary purpose of this list is to provide a forum for serious academic discussion. It is open to all persons inside and outside the academic context who wish to engage in substantial discussion of topics relating to Buddhism and Buddhist studies. BUDDHA-L is not to be used for proselytizing for or against Buddhism in general, any particular form of Buddhism, or any other religion or philosophy, nor is it to be used as a forum for making unsubstantiable confessions of personal conviction.

Moderator:

Jim Cocks jacocks@ulkyvm

* Christian Discussion

Subscription Method: By Moderator; message to MAILJC-REQUEST Internet Subscription Request Address: mailjc- request@cps.altadena.ca.us BITNET Subscription Request Address: As above Mailing Address: mailjc@cps.altadena.ca.us Number of Subscribers: 450 Logbooks: Yes Other Archived Material: No

To provide a non-hostile environment for discussion among Christians. Non-Christians may join the conference and "listen-in", but full blown debates between Christians and non-Christians are best carried out in soc.religion.christian or talk.religion USENET newsgroups.

Moderator: Liz Allen liz@cps.altadena.ca.us

* Christian Thought and Literature in Late Antiquity (ELENCHUS)

Subscription Method: Automatic to server: SUB ELENCHUS Internet Subscription Request Address: Listserv@acadvm1.uottawa.ca BITNET Subscription Request Address: Listserv@uottawa Mailing Address: Elenchus@acadvm1.uottawa.ca or Elenchus@uottawa Number of Subscribers: 250 Logbooks: Yes Other Archived Material: No

Christian Thought and Literature in Late Antiquity (ELENCHUS) is devoted to discussions of the thought and literature of Christianity during the period 100 to 500 a.d. (c.e.). This will include discussions of patristics, gnosticism, asceticism, monasticism, archeology, the Nag Hammadi and Manichaean corpora, the canon of Scripture and the early translations of the Scriptures (into, among other languages, Latin, Syriac, Coptic), the history of exegesis (including the appropriation by Christians of the texts of Judaism and other religious, philosophical, or ideological groupings), as well as historical and theological developments from the time of the Apologists to the fall of the Western Empire.

The languages of discussion will be English or French. Submissions in either language are welcomed, and patience and understanding on the part of all are encouraged!

Moderator:

L. Gregory Bloomquist Saint Paul University / University of Ottawa S-Mail: 223 Main St., Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 1C4 CANADA Voice: (613) 782-3027 / 236-1393 FAX: (613) 567-2959 / 782-3005 Gbloomq@acadvm1.uottawa.ca Gbloomq@acadvm1.uottawa.ca

* Classics Discussion (CLASSICS)

Subscription Method: Automatic to Server: SUB CLASSICS your name Internet Subscription Address: Listserv@uwavm.u.washington.edu BITNET Subscription Address: Listserv@uwavm Mailing Address: classics@uwavm.u.washington.edu or classic@uwavm Number of Subscribers: 210 Logbooks: Yes -- On Listserv Other Archived Material: No

A list for discussing ancient Greek and Latin subjects. This list is open to everyone interested in Classics, and prospective members are warmly welcomed. The discussions assume a background in ancient Greek and/or Latin. The CLASSICS list is neither run by nor directly affiliated with the University of Washington Classics Department.

Moderator:

Linda Wright lwright@u.washington.edu

* Discussion of Beliefs and Practices of Conservative Judaism (CJ-L)

Subscription Method: Automatic to Server: SUB CJ-L your name Internet Subscription Address: Listserv@uacsc2.albany.edu BITNET Subscription Address: Listserv@albny1vm Mailing Address: cj-l@uacsc2.albany.edu or cj-l@albnyvm1 Number of Subscribers: 115 Logbooks: Yes -- On Listserv Other Archived Material: No

Discussion of the beliefs and practices of Conservative Judaism.

Moderator:

Mark Steinberger Bob Pfeiffer mark@csc.albany.edu grape@albnyvm1 mark@fenris.albany.edu

* Eastern Orthodox Christianity Discussion (EOCHR-L)

Subscription Method: Automatic to Server: SUB EOCHR-L your name Internet Subscription Address: Listserv@qucdn.queensu.ca BITNET Subscription Address: Listserv@qucdn Mailing Address: eochr-l@qucdn or eochr-l@qucdm.queensu.ca Number of Subscribers: 70 Logbooks: Yes -- On Listserv Other Archived Material: No

The purpose of the Eastern Orthodox Christian discussion group is to provide a forum for discussion and exchange of ideas by members of the various Eastern and Oriental Orthodox churches around the world, as well as any other people who are seriously interested in Eastern Orthodox Christianity and the concerns of the Orthodox. It exists for polite, open, tolerant, and truly pan-Orthodox discussions of any topics related to the Orthodox faith, to the corporate life of the various national Orthodox churches, and/or to the individual lives of Orthodox Christians.

Moderator:

Dragic V. Vukomanocic Dragic.Vukomanovic@QueensU.CA

* Generic Religions and Secret Societies

Subscription Method: By Moderator Internet Subscription Address: Grass- server@wharton.upenn.edu BITNET Subscription Address: As above Mailing Address: Grass@wharton.upenn.edu Number of Subscribers: 90 Logbooks: No Other Archived Material: No

GRASS (Generic Religions And Secret Societies) is a working group formed in order to write up brief descriptions of various religions and initiatory societies for whatever purposes you like, with the emphasis on use in roleplaying games. As is only natural given the subject matter, we have an initiatory requirement. Before being admitted to the group you must submit something of value to it. We suggest using a standard format (which may be found on grass-server@wharton.upenn.edu in the file grass.format), and placing your writeup in the public domain. Get a copy of GRASS.FORMAT and write up an organization with which you are familiar, or submit a substantial amount of constructive commentary on a writeup that already exists.

Moderator:

Loren Miller grass-request@wharton.upenn.edu

* Godly Graphics

Subscription Method: By Moderator Internet Subscription Address: request-godlygraphics@sparc.vitro.com BITNET Subscription Address: As above Mailing Address: godlygraphics@sparc.vitro.com Number of Subscribers: 36 Logbooks: No Other Archived Material: Via FTP to hubcap.clemson.edu

For discussing Christian uses of computer graphics, and animations and for related trading of ideas, objects, images, and even joint projects. This list is not restricted to Amiga users, but is open to users of any computer platform, with the understanding that all members restrain from religious flames and pseudo-religious computer flames; that is, we agree to respect each other's choice of computer, software, and denomination, and foster an encouraging, supportive environment.

FTP Archive:

The starter archive file consists of e-mail correspondence between founding members before the list actually started. To retrieve the starter archive and first archive volume, FTP to hubcap.clemson.edu in directory /pub/amiga/incoming/graphics/GGG the following files will be found:

ChrAmiga_archive0.txt.Z ChrAmiga_archive0.lzh ChrAmiga_archive1.txt.Z ChrAmiga_archive1.lzh

Samplings of Amiga IFF images and animations in the directory /pub/amiga/incoming/graphics/GGG/

BestOfGGG.Readme BestOfGGG.pics.lzh GGG.gif.tar GGG2Read.me GGG2.iff.lzh

Adam Benjamin has uploaded JPEG formatted 24-bit images of objects he has been working on for the joint Tabernacle Project in Imagine; an effort to build 3D models of the Old Testament Tabernacle and its accoutrements, and produce a walk-through animation. These objects so far are: the Laver (water basin), the Holy Candlestick, and the Altar of Incense. In the directory, /pub/amiga/incoming/graphics/tabern/

scan.jpg Laver and Candlestick, scanlined trace.jpg Laver and Candlestick, raytraced scan_trace.readme CONTENTS.TXT tabernacle.jpg

A sample of images from the Scrolling Announcements Display for Gloria Dei Lutheran Church. This was generated with Broadcast Titler 2.0 software and contains a week's worth of events and a list of Bible Classes. In the directory /pub/amiga/incoming/graphics/GGG/

GDScrollCal.Readme GDScrollCal.iff.lzh

Key: The ".Z" extension means to use the Unix uncompress command. The ".lzh" extension means to use "Lharc -x" on the Amiga. A Unix version of Lharc, xlharc, is available.

If you need these files in some other form or need it e-mailed to you uuencoded (121k big), you can e-mail a request to the moderator (address below). Some of these image sets are in GIF format, but others are in Amiga's IFF. There is a two week limit on storing files at hubcap, so you may have to contact the moderator, who will re-upload files if needed.

Moderator:

Wayne Haufler haufler@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov

* History of American Catholicism (AMERCATH)

Subscription Method: Automatic to Server: SUB AMERCATH your name Internet Subscription Address: Listserv@ukcc.uky.edu BITNET Subscription Address: Listserv@ukcc Mailing Address: Amercath@ukcc or Amercath@ukcc.uky.edu Number of Subscribers: 92 Logbooks: No Other Archived Material: No

Jefferson Community College - University of Kentucky announces a new electronic discussion group for those interested in the history of American Catholicism, AMERCATH@UKCC.

Access to AMERCATH is available internationally thus forming a global network of people who research and teach the history of American Catholicism. The use of the Listserv list AMERCATH is a major breakthrough in facilitating instant communication among faculty, students and researchers.

Appropriate messages for AMERCATH include: feedback on research program proposals, calls for papers and meetings, media, and job announcements information-gathering questions, syllabi and bibliographies as well as any other issues pertinent to enhancing the study and teaching of the history of American Catholicsm.

Moderator:

Anne Kearney, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History Jefferson Community College University of Kentucky 109 East Broadway, Louisville, KY 40202, 502-584-0181 ext 353, jccannek@ukcc.uky.edu jccannek@ukcc

* History and Theory of the Occult (ARCANA)

Subscription Method: Automatic to Server: SUB ARCANA your name Internet Subscription Address: Via BITNET gateway BITNET Subscription Address: Listserv@unccvm Mailing Address: arcana@unccvm Number of Subscribers: 90 Logbooks: Yes -- On Listserv Other Archived Material: No

ARCANA is a discussion list dealing with the occult. All questions pertaining to the occult, scholarly, ritualistic, technical, and practical, will be welcomed by the list. Experienced scholars and practitioners as well as serious newcomers are invited to subscribe.

ARCANA is a list for students and scholars of the occult. This is not a role-playing list. Discussion of popular representations of the occult should be grounded in and refer back to historical or textual reality.

Moderator:

Leonard Roberts acc00ltr@unccvm

* History of The Ancient Mediterranean (ANCIEN-L)

Subscription Method: Automatic to Server: SUB ANCIEN-L your name Internet Subscription Address: Listserv@ulkyvm.louisville.edu BITNET Subscription Address: Listserv@ulkyvm Mailing Address: ancien-l@ulkyvm or ancien-l@ulkyvm.louisville.edu Number of Subscribers: 234 Logbooks: Yes -- On Listserv Other Archived Material: No

ANCIEN-L is a forum for debate, discussion, and the exchange of information by students and scholars of the history of the Ancient Mediterranean. ANCIEN-L is ready to distribute newsletters from study groups, and to post announcements of meetings and calls for papers, short scholarly pieces, queries, and other items of interest.

Moderator:

Jim Cocks jacock01@ulkyvm

* History of Evangelical Christianity (HISTEC-L)

Subscription Method: By Moderator: include short biography Internet Subscription Address: BITNET Subscription Address: bays@ukanvm Mailing Address: histec-l@ukanvm Number of Subscribers: 99 Logbooks: Yes -- On Listserv and FTP Other Archived Material: FTP to node kuhub.cc.ukans.edu Directory:

HISTEC-L is a non-sectarian forum for discussion, debate, and the exchange of information by students and scholars of the history of evangelical Christianity. It is not a medium for proselytizing, and the advocacy or disparagement of any faith or sect are not welcome. The command language of HISTEC-L is English, but postings in other languages are accepted. HISTEC-L is ready to distribute newsletters from study groups, and to post announcements of meetings and calls for papers, short scholarly pieces, queries, and other items of interest.

Archives:

HISTEC-L maintains a directory at the FTP node kuhub.cc.ukans.edu, for the collection and preservation of materials of use to its members. Our FTP directory is presently empty. Subscribers who have materials they believe worth including should contact me by e-mail. This site will operate in co-operation with ra.msstate.edu and the contents of its directories will form part of a union catalogue with ra.msstate and other cooperating sites.

Moderator:

Daniel H. Bays BAYS@UKANVM

* Global Christianity discussion (GLOBLX-L)

Subscription Method: Automatic to Server: SUB GLOBALX your name Internet Subscription Address: Listserv@qucdn.queensu.ca BITNET Subscription Address: Listserv@qucdn Mailing Address: globlx-l@qucdn or globlx-l@qucdn.queensu.ca Number of Subscribers: 43 Logbooks: Yes -- On Listserv Other Archived Material: No

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Moderator:

Gary W. van Loon vanloon@qucdn gary.w.vanloon@queensu.ca

* Indian and Buddhist Studies (BUDDHIST)

Subscription Method: Automatic to Listserv: SUB BUDDHIST your name Internet Subscription Address: BITNET Subscription Address: Listserv@jpntuvm0 Mailing Address: Buddhist@jpntuvm0 Number of Subscribers: 128 Logbooks: Yes -- On Listserv Other Archived Material: No

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Moderator:

Yoshiyuki Kawazoe kawazoe@jpntohok

* The International Forum for First Century Judaism and Christian Origins (IOUDAIOS)

Subscription Method: Automatic to Listserv: SUB IOUDAIOS your name Internet Subscription Address: Listserv@vm1.yorku.ca BITNET Subscription Address: Listserv@yorkvm1 Mailing Address: Ioudaios@yorkvm1 or Ioudaios@vm1.yorku.ca Number of Subscribers: 400 Logbooks: Yes -- On Listserv Other Archived Material: Yes -- On Listserv

IOUDAIOS (Greek for "Jew") is an electronic seminar devoted to the exploration of first-century Judaism its special interest is in the writings of Philo of Alexandria and Flavius Josephus. The conference began as an informal discussion of two papers by Robert A. Kraft (Pennsylvania) but quickly blossomed into an international forum, with participants in North America, Europe, Australia, and The Middle East.

The Philonic and Josephan corpora are extensive enough that they invite all sorts of analysis -- from literary, historical, and philosophical perspectives, to name a few. There is also considerable interest, among participants, in the social realities that lie behind these texts and their broad historical context. Prospective members are warmly welcomed. (The discussion assumes a significant background in first-century Judaism and also the ability to read Greek).

Moderator:

David Reimer dreimer4@mach1.wlu.ca

* InterVarsity Christian Fellowship List (IVCF-L)

Subscription Method: Automatic to Server: SUB IVCF-L your name Internet Subscription Address: listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu BITNET Subscription Address: Listserv@ubvm Mailing Address: ivcf-l@ubvm or ivcf- l@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu Number of Subscribers: 138 Logbooks: No Other Archived Material: No

This list is originated from the State University of New York at Buffalo and is intended for discussion related to InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF). A multi-denominational Christian group on campuses across the United States, IVCF is affiliated with IFES (International Fellowship of Evangelical Students) worldwide. IVCF is a student led group on campuses, with guidance from (usually one) staff worker per chapter.

Students traditionally have one Large Group meeting per week, which includes worship and fellowship with other Christians. We also greatly encourage Small Group faith communities/bible studies. The IVCF "credo" in western New York State is to (1) Build Collegiate Fellowships, (2) Develop Disciples who embody Biblical values, and (3) Engage the Campus in all it's ethnic diversity with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Welcome in this list is discussion from members, staff, and all people affiliated with IVCF, or those wanting more information. However, this IVCF-L list does not represent Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, nor does it represent the values and/or beliefs of the members, staff, or other persons affiliated with the organization. This list is strictly a discussion list with the IVCF logo. It was initiated by a student leader in InterVarsity, and many IVCF members are subscribed. This list, while not a "moderated" list, will be edited if inappropriate material is sent to it.

Moderator:

Jim Gerland gerland@ubvm

* Islam Discussion Group (ISLAM-L)

Subscription Method: Automatic to Server: SUB ISLAM-L your name Internet Subscription Address: Listserv@ulkyvm.louisville.edu BITNET Subscription Address: Listserv@ulkyvm Mailing Address: islam-l@ulkyvm or islam@ulkyvm.louisville.edu Number of Subscribers: 113 Logbooks: Yes -- On Listserv Other Archived Material: No

ISLAM-L is a non-sectarian forum for discussion, debate, and the exchange of information by students and scholars of the history of Islam. ISLAM-L is not to be used for proselytizing for or against Islam in general, any particular form of Islam, or any other religion or philosophy, nor is it to be used as a forum for making unsubstantiable confessions of personal conviction.

The command language of ISLAM-L is English, but postings in other languages are accepted. ISLAM-L is ready to distribute newsletters from study groups, and to post announcements of meetings and calls for papers, short scholarly pieces, queries, and other items of interest.

Moderator:

Jim Cocks jacock01@ulkyvm

* The Islamic Information and News Network (MUSLIMS)

Subscription Method: Automatic to Server: SUB MUSLIMS your name Internet Subscription Address: Listserv@asuvm.inre.asu.edu BITNET Subscription Address: Listserv@asuacad or Listserv@psuvm Mailing Address: Muslims@asuacad or Muslims@asuvm.inre.asu.edu Number of Subscribers: 270 Logbooks: Yes -- On Listserv Other Archived Material: No

The Islamic Information and News Network is a moderated forum dedicated to educate the network communities on issues relating to the Muslims in an academic & non-political environment. Submissions are compiled in the form of a newsletter and mailed to the subscribers.

Moderators: Asim Mughal mughal@iago.caltech.edu Mir Assadullah ssi!mma@uunet.uu.net Nauman Mysorewala pakeditr@asuacad.bitnet Mansoor Jafri majafri@iago.caltech.edu Zubair Ahmad sahmad@us.oracle.com Imran Mehdi imran@merlin.jpl.nasa.gov

* Issues And Questions of Concern to Observant Jews (BALTUVA)

Subscription Method: Automatic to Server: SUB BALTUVA your name Internet Subscription Address: Listserv@vm1.mcgill.ca BITNET Subscription Address: Listserv@mcgill1 Mailing Address: baltuva@mcgill1 or baltuva@vm1.mcgill.ca Number of Subscribers: 93 Logbooks: No Other Archived Material: No

The name of the list is derived from "baal t'shuva" which is often used to refer to "newly religious" Jews. The list is not restricted to this group however - please feel free to post to the list whether or not you consider yourself to be a "baal t'shuva."

Moderator:

Claire Austin czca@musica.mcgill.ca

* Jewish & Near Eastern Studies (JUDAICA)

Subscription Method: Automatic to Server: SUB JUDAICA your name Internet Subscription Address: Listserv@taunivm.tau.ac.il BITNET Subscription Address: Listserv@taunivm or Listserv@uminn1 Mailing Address: Judaica@taunivm or Judaica@taunivm.tau.ac.il Number of Subscribers: 364 Logbooks: Yes -- On Listserv Other Archived Material: Yes -- On Listserv

We are interested in information, work-in-progress, electronic applications, and, especially, new approaches, which relate to Judaic Studies. Questions are welcome, and participation of the broadest possible audience is encouraged.

Moderator:

Avrum Goodblat heasif@shum.huji.ac.il

* Latter Day Saints

Subscription Method: By Moderator Internet Subscription Address: lds-request@decwrl.dec.com BITNET Subscription Address: As above Mailing Address: lds@decwrl.dec.com Number of Subscribers: 100+ Logbooks: ? Other Archived Material: ?

A forum for the discussion of general Latter Day Saints church related topics. Note that it is not uncommon for 20 to 30 messages to be generated in a day. Some of these may be quite lengthy. If you can't handle this volume, or your account has a limited amount of diskspace you may have problems. It is equally possible for a week or two to pass with only one or two messages.

Moderator:

Richard L. Hyde rich@wsl.dec.com

* Liberal Judaism

Subscription Method: By Moderator Internet Subscription Address: faigin@aero.org BITNET Subscription Address: As above Mailing Address: liberal-judaism@israel.nysernet.org or faigin@aero.org Number of Subscribers: Logbooks: Available from the moderator by e-mail to faigin@aero.org or via FTP to the node israel.nysernet.org in the directory

/israel/mail.liberal-judaism/digests/. Other Archived Material: FTP fileserver

This discussion group is a forum where Jews from all Jewish movements can discuss issues without fear of attacks about the legitimacy of their movements. The only filtering of submissions that is done is (a) removal of attacks, (b) removal of material from non-Jewish movements (this determination is based on a definition seen on the USENET newsgroup, soc.culture.jewish, namely that a Jewish movement is one that uses only indisputably Jewish sources (i.e., Torah, Talmud) as the basis for its philosophy -- thus the liberal movements, including Humanistic Judaism, are acceptable, whereas quasi-Christian movements, such as Jews for Jesus or "Messianic" (sic) Judaism is not). Submissions not meeting these guidelines will range from discussions between the moderator and the author to reword the inflammatory or offensive material, to outright rejection of the article. The initial goal of the list was to provide a forum for discussions concerning issues of relevance to the more liberal movements (Reform, Reconstructionist, Conservative). Remember, it is acceptable to criticize the position taken by a given movement, as long as you word your submission in such as way as to not question the validity of that movement as a part of Judaism. Anonymity will be preserved on request.

Moderator:

faigin@aero.org

* LITURGY

Subscription Method: Automatic to Server: SUB LITURGY your nam Internet Subscription Address: mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk BITNET Subscription Address: As above Mailing Address: liturgy@mailbase.ac.uk Number of Subscribers: ? Logbooks: Yes -- On Listserv Other Archived Material: No

LITURGY provides an academic forum for discussion of all aspects of Christian liturgy. The list does not confine itself to any one historical period, geographical area or Christian tradition. Therefore contributions are welcome from all historical and theological fields. We also welcome discussion from those involved in other disciplines such as literary analysis, comparative religions and sociology of religion.

Moderator:

Michael Fraser m.a.fraser@durham.ac.uk

* Malaysian Islamic Study Group (MISG-L)

Subscription Method: Automatic to Server: SUB MISG-L your name Internet Subscription Address: Listserv@psuvm.psu.edu BITNET Subscription Address: Listserv@psuvm Mailing Address: misg-l@psuvm or misg- l@psuvm.psu.edu Number of Subscribers: 220 Logbooks: Yes -- On Listserv Other Archived Material: Yes -- Via FTP to princeton.edu Directory: /pub/misg-lib/

MISG-L is a discussion group mainly for the use of Malaysian Islamic Study Group (MISG) members. However membership is opened to anyone interested. Malaysian and Islamic affairs are the main topics of discussion.

Archive:

The Malaysian Islamic Study Group maintains a FTP archive at the node princeton.edu (128.122.128.1) in the directory /pub/misg-l/. This archive contains a copy of the Koran, various scanned images in .tif files and numerous other items. [Find out how to make use of .tif files.]

Moderator:

Azmi Hashim axh113@psuvm or axh113@psuvm.psu.edu

* Masonic Digest

Subscription Method: By Moderator Internet Subscription Address: ptrei@mitre.org BITNET Subscription Address: As above Mailing Address: ptrei@mitre.org Number of Subscribers: 270 Logbooks: Yes -- Via request to Moderator Other Archived Material: Via FTP to 150.243.100.10

Masonic Digest is a moderated forum for discussion of Free Masonry, affiliated groups, and other fraternal orders. As moderator, I do not pass on any message which contains or purports to contain material I am obliged to conceal, or which I believe members of other orders are obliged to conceal. Within that restriction, I am as liberal as possible. Postings from non-Masons are welcome. So is criticism, as long as it is reasoned and in good taste. Many current members of the list are Master Masons. Others are simply interested or curious.

Moderator:

Peter Trei ptrei@bistromath.mitre.org

* New Testament Greek Studies Conference (NT-GREEK)

Subscription Method: By Moderator Internet Subscription Address: nt-greek- request@virginia.edu BITNET Subscription Address: ntgrkreq@virginia Mailing Address: nt-greek@virginia or nt-greek@virginia.edu Number of Subscribers: 153 Logbooks: No Other Archived Material: No

NT-GREEK is an electronic conference designed to foster communication concerning the scholarly study of the Greek New Testament. Anyone interested in New Testament Studies is invited to subscribe, but the conference will assume at least a working knowledge of Biblical Greek. Subscription to this conference is open to anyone interested.

Moderator:

David John Marotta. The Center for Christian Study 128 Chancellor Street Charlottesville, VA 22903 (804) 295-2471 djm5g@virginia.edu djm5g@virginia

* Old Testament Hebrew Studies (OT-HEBREW)

Subscription Method: By Moderator Internet Subscription Address: ot-hebrew- request@virginia.edu BITNET Subscription Address: othebreq@virginia Mailing Address: ot-hebrew@virginia or ot-hebrew@virginia.edu Number of Subscribers: 115 Logbooks: No Other Archived Material: No

OT-HEBREW is an electronic conference designed to foster communication concerning the scholarly study of the Hebrew Old Testament. Anyone interested in Old Testament Studies is invited to subscribe, but the conference will assume at least a working knowledge of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic. Subscription to this conference is open to anyone interested.

Coordinator:

David John Marotta The Center for Christian Study 128 Chancellor Street Charlottesville, VA 22903 (804) 295-2471 djm5g@virginia.edu djm5g@virginia

* Orthodox Christianity (ORTHODOX)

Subscription Method: Automatic to Server: SUB ORTHODOX your name Internet Subscription Address: Listserv@indycms.iupui.edu BITNET Subscription Address: Listserv@indycms Mailing Address: Orthodox@indycms or Orthodox@indycms.iupui.edu Number of Subscribers: 72 Logbooks: Yes -- On Listserv Other Archived Material: No

The Orthodox Christianity conference is dedicated to the thoughtful exchange of information regarding Orthodox Christianity worldwide, especially its impact upon and resurgence within Russia and her neighbours. ORTHODOX is a moderated conference with no gateways to any other Listserv lists or Usenet newsgroups.

Moderator:

John B Harlan jbharlan@indyvax jbharlan@indyvax.iupui.edu

* Pagan Religion and Philosophy (PAGAN)

Subscription Method: By Moderator Internet Subscription Address: pagan-request@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu BITNET Subscription Address: pagan@drycas Mailing Address: pagan@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu Number of Subscribers: 550 Logbooks: Yes -- Via FTP Other Archived Material: FTP to drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu

A conference for the discussion of the religions and philosophy of Paganism.

Moderator:

Stacey Greenstein uther@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu

* Personal Ideologies (BELIEF-L)

Subscription Method: Automatic to Server: SUB BELIEF-L your name Internet Subscription Address: Listserv@brownvm.brown.edu BITNET Subscription Address: Listserv@brownvm or Listserv@ucf1vm Mailing Address: Belief-l@brownvm or Belief-l@brownvm.brown.edu Number of Subscribers: 269 Logbooks: Yes -- On Listserv Other Archived Material: No

BELIEF-L is designed to be a forum where personal ideologies can be discussed, examined, and analyzed.

Moderator:

David B. O'Donnell el406006@brownvm atropos@netlab.cis.brown.edu

* The Progressive Jewish Activism List (PJAL)

Subscription Method: To Moderator Internet Subscription Address: carr@utxvm.cc.utexas.edu BITNET Subscription Address: carr@utxvm.bitnet Mailing Address: pjal@utxvm Number of Subscribers: 23 Logbooks: Yes -- On Listserv Other Archived Material: No

The Progressive Jewish Activism List is a forum for organizing and activism-oriented discussion by progressive Jews working for peace and social justice. PJAL is founded on the principles of:

- opposition to discrimination based on race, sex, age, religious belief and practice, sexuality, and physical disability/handicap; support for human rights and freedom of expression

- belief in economic and environmental justice: the right of all people to adequate food, shelter, and quality of life for themselves and their children

- support for individual rights to privacy, including a woman's choice to have an abortion

- support for the resolution of conflict through negotiation; opposition to violence, military culture, and negotiation; opposition to violence, military culture, and occupation

- support for the self-determination and security of Israelis and Palestinians, including self-determination for Palestinian residents of territories occupied by Israel in 1967, and recognition of the Palestine Liberation Organization as the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people.

To subscribe to PJAL, please apply to one of the list owners, Steve Carr or Seth Grimes. In your application, please describe your background, state your willingness to adhere to all of the PJAL principles outlined and your acceptance of the moderated format of the list.

Moderators:

Steve Carr carr@utxvm.cc.utexas.edu carr@utxvm.bitnet

Seth Grimes JCIPP@MCIMAIL.COM * Religions Discussion Group (RELIGION)

Subscription Method: Automatic to Server: SUB RELIGION your name Internet Subscription Address: Listserv@harvarda.harvard.edu BITNET Subscription Address: Listserv@harvarda Mailing Address: religion@harvarda or religion@harvarda.harvard.edu Number of Subscribers: 200 Logbooks: Yes Other Archived Material: Yes -- On Listserv

Religion is a Listserv list for the scholarly discussion of Religions. It is sponsored by the Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions. Unlike lists with similar names, Religion does not deal with matters of personal faith or theology. Rather, it's aim is to encourage discussion of the historical and comparative study and teaching of religions. Relevant approaches include history, sociology, psychology, philosophy, literary criticism, and anthropology. Relevant issues include methodology in the study and teaching of religions; comparative themes such as myth, ritual, mysticism, community, and inter-religious contact; and issues specific to particular traditions.

Moderator:

Tim Bryson tbry@harvarda tbry@harvarda.harvard.edu

* Religious Communication and Contexts (RELICOM)

Subscription Method: Automatic to Server: SUB RELICOM your name Internet Subscription Address: Listserv@ukcc.uky.edu BITNET Subscription Address: Listserv@ukcc Mailing Address: relicom@ukcc or relicom@ukcc.uky.edu Number of Subscribers: 109 Logbooks: Yes -- On Listserv Other Archived Material: No

A forum for the scholarly discussion of issues related to religious communication and communication in religious contexts. This forum focuses on the study of messages of religious content or intent and on the communication processes in religious ritual, education and persuasive attempts. This discussion group is open to members of all religions and scholarly discplines. Inter- religious dialogue and cross-disciplinary discussion is encouraged.

Moderator:

David D. Tukey tukey@nkuvax

* The Religious Society of Friends (QUAKER-L)

Subscription Method: Automatic to Server: SUB QUAKER-L your name Internet Subscription Address: Listserv@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu BITNET Subscription Address: Listserv@uiucvmd Mailing Address: quaker-l@uiucvmd or quaker-l@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu Number of Subscribers: 189 Logbooks: Yes -- On Listserv Other Archived Material: No

The QUAKER-L list is for unmoderated, online discussion of all aspects of Quakerism, the Religious Society of Friends. Such discussion may include (but is not limited to) Quaker worship, decision-making, publications (e.g., Friends Journal, etc.), umbrella organizations (e.g., FGC, FUM, AFSC, FCNL, etc.), Peace Testimony and social activism. It has been operating since November 1991.

Moderators:

Bruce Dienes Steve Thompson bdienes@psych.uiuc.edu st@eniac.seas.upenn.edu

* Shaker - A forum on the United Society of Believers (SHAKER)

Subscription Method: Automatic to Server: SUB SHAKER your name Internet Subscription Address: Listserv@ukcc.uky.edu BITNET Subscription Address: Listserv@ukcc Mailing Address: shaker@ukcc or shaker@ukcc.uky.edu Number of Subscribers: 105 Logbooks: Yes -- On Listserv Other Archived Material: No

A conference for those interested in the history, culture, artifacts, and beliefs of the Shakers (The United Society of Believers). Discussions will cover a broad range of subject matter including, but not limited to: social analysis, history, shaker women's studies, material culture, and organization. Discussions of other utopian communities are also welcome.

Moderator:

Marc A. Rhorer rhorer@ukcc.uky.edu

* Social Scientific Study of Religion (SSREL-L)

Subscription Method: Automatic to Server: SUB SSREL-L your name Internet Subscription Address: Listserv@utkvm1.utk.edu BITNET Subscription Address: Listserv@utkvm1 Mailing Address: ssrel-l@utkvm1 or ssrel-l@utkvm1.utk.edu Number of Subscribers: 82 Logbooks: Yes -- On Listserv Other Archived Material: No

SSREL-L is devoted to the scientific study of religion, that is to say, the study of religion by scholars of various disciplines, e.g. psychology of religion.

Moderator:

Donald R. Ploch ploch@utkvx ploch@utkvx.utk.edu

* Women, Religion, and Feminist Theology (FEMREL-L)

Subscription Method: Automatic to Server: SUB FEMREL-L your name Internet Subscription Address: Listserv@mizzou1.missouri.edu BITNET Subscription Address: Listserv@mizzou1 Mailing Address: femrel-l@mizzou1 or femrel--@mizzou1.missouri.edu Number of Subscribers: 187 Logbooks: Yes -- On Listserv Other Archived Material: No

FEMREL-L is a discussion and resource group concerning women and religion, and feminist theology. Our goal is open, stimulating exchange on any issues pertaining to these topics. All religions, creeds, beliefs, and opinions are welcome, althrough we ask that participants respect differences.

Moderators:

Cathy Quick c497487@mizzou1 Bonnie Vegiard c507740@mizzou1

USENET -- General Information

USENET is actually a worldwide network of over 10,000 hosts and 300,000 users. Unlike BITNET and Internet, USENET is not an academic network. Most of USENET's sites are commercial, but advertising is strictly forbidden on USENET. USENET supports one service only, called news or newsgroups, and is available at most Internet sites. Unfortunately, USENET newsgroups are largely unavailable to BITNET sites. There is over 300 different newsgroups available, but not all sites carry all newsgroups. The following section provides information on all religious studies related newsgroups. As there are a number of different software platforms for reading USENET newsgroups, this guide cannot give specific details on accessing and reading USENET newsgroups. Users should take local courses and obtain manuals on their sites' USENET news reader.

Note: If you have access to both USENET and Internet e-mail, USENET is generally preferable as a method of access, as it requires fewer network resources per additional subscriber. For those who do not have access to USENET, Internet and BITNET subscription information is given for newsgroups that are duplicated (gatewayed) as lists or interest groups.

The following helpful information files can be found in the newsgroup news.announce.newusers. All of the following are recommended reading for all USENET users.

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions A Primer on How to Work With the USENET Community Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on Netiquette Hints on Writing Style for USENET What is USENET? Rules for Posting to USENET

Other useful USENET information files are:

List of Moderator

This is a list of active moderated newsgroups and their moderators. These are newsgroups where each posting is screened by a moderator before being forwarded to the entire newsgroup.

List of Active Newsgroups, Part I and II

This is a directory of over 300 currently active USENET newsgroups.

Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists, Part I, II and III

This is a list of mailing lists primarily available through Internet and UUCP networks. This directory does not include BITNET Listserv Lists.

Introduction to news.announce

This is a description of the newsgroup news.announce. News.announce is a newsgroup that posts important announcements about USENET. All USENET users should subscribe to this newsgroup.

List of Periodic Informational Postings, Part I and II

Many newsgroups contain articles that are posted on a periodic basis. These articles tend to be general information files useful to novice and experienced users. The List of Periodic Informational Postings, Part I and II documents the majority of these periodic postings. This list is a good directory to information files that exist on USENET newsgroups.

* Accessing USENET Documents

The above USENET documents can be found in the newsgroup news.newusers.questions and read from within a USENET newsreader. Theses documents can also be retrieved via FTP from the node pit-manager.mit.edu (18.172.1.27) in the directory /pub/usenet/news.answers/. They can also be retrieved via mail, send a mail message to mail- server@pit-manager.mit.edu containing the command HELP for more information.

USENET Religious Studies Related Newsgroups

The following is a listing of all newsgroups of interest to religious studies fields. These groups are divided into moderated and umoderated groups. In moderated newsgroups each posting is screened by a moderator before being forwarded to the entire newsgroup.

* Moderated Newsgroups

To post to a moderated newsgroup, send your article to the Submission Address. The newsgroup moderator will then forward your posting to the group. Inappropriate submissions will be returned with an explanation. In some cases submissions may be sent directly to the newsgroup, where it will be automatically forwarded to the moderator.

* Discussion of the Baha'i Faith -- SOC.RELIGION.BAHAI

Submission Address: Direct to soc.religion.bahai or to bahai-faith@oneworld.wa.com

The newsgroup will act as a non-threatening forum for discussing and sharing information about the tenets, history, and texts of the Baha'i Faith. Prior to its formation there was a good amount of traffic on this topic in other newsgroups; this group provides a "single point of contact" for such discussion. Examples of posts that fall within the group's scope are: The Baha'i Faith's relation to other religions; relevance of Baha'i principles to current world events/problems; analysis of particular scriptural passages or themes; and general questions and answers.

The soc.religion.bahai newsgroup is gatewayed to USENET from the moderated Internet mailing list, bahai-faith, which shares soc.religion.bahai's policies. Those without USENET access should address subscription and unsubscription requests to bahai-faith-request@oneworld.wa.com.

Archives/Documents:

Introduction to the Baha'i Faith (periodically posted) Welcome/Introduction (periodicaly posted)

Moderator:

Aaron Nabil Eastlund nabil@cse.ogi.edu or srb- mods@oneworld.wa.com Babak Kashef babak@canada.sun.com Mark Towfiq towfiq@ftp.com Rick Troxel rick@helix.nih.gov

* Christianity and Related Topics -- SOC.RELIGION.CHRISTIAN

Submission Address:

Moderator:

Charles Hedrick christian-request@aramis.rutgers.edu

* Discussions of Eastern Religions -- SOC.RELIGION.EASTERN

Submission Address: sre@cse.ogi.edu or religion-islam- request@ncar.ucar.edu

The aim of the newsgroup is to provide a forum for the discussion of Eastern metaphysics/theology/logic. The word eastern in the title of the newsgroup signifies religions with origins in South/South-East/Far-East Asia. For example, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Shintoism, Taoism, etc. All people, no matter what their religious background, can post articles in this newsgroup. Articles about western religious systems (Judaism/Christianity/Islam) are also welcome if the aim is to make rational/objective comparisons of these systems with those discussed in this newsgroup.

Archives/Documents:

Group Soc.Religion.Islam At a Glance (Periodically posted)

Moderator:

Aaron Nabil nabil@qiclab.scn.rain.com

* Discussions of the Islamic Faith -- SOC.RELIGION.ISLAM

Submission Address: religion-islam-request@ncar.ucar.edu

This newsgroup is for the discussion of issues directly relating to Islam. This includes theology, comparative studies with other religions, announcements of Islamic conferences and sources of information for Muslims, Ramadan, and so on. Academic language must be used. Verbal abuse, personal attacks, flames, profanity or insults will not be forwarded for posting to the group.

Moderators:

Asim M. Mughal mughal@romeo.caltech.edu D. Salman Azhar azhar@duke.cs.duke.edu

Hanan Lutfiyya hanan@mcs213k.cs.umr.edu Basalat Ali Raja gwydion@gnu.ai.mit.edu

* Unmoderated Newsgroups

To post to umoderated newsgroups, simply send you mail message directly to the newsgroup via USENET. The titles of these newsgroups are descriptive of their focus.

* Christian Music, Contemporary and Traditional -- REC.MUSIC.CHRISTIAN

* Jewish Culture and Religion -- SOC.CULTURE.JEWISH

* Evolutionism versus Creationism -- TALK.ORIGINS

* Religious, Ethical and Moral Issues and Implications -- TALK.RELIGION.MISC

* Esoteric and Minority Religions and Philosophies -- TALK.RELIGION.NEWAGE

* 2. Electronic Journals and Newsletters *

The Directory of Electronic Journals and Newsletters is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of all electronic journals and newsletters which are of academic interest and available through BITNET, Internet and any affiliated networks. This Directory is part of an ongoing project and is updated as new electronic journals and newsletters come into existence and as existing entries are changed. Every effort has been made to provide the user with up-to-date information. Most entries have been either provided from or scrutinized by the journal and newsletter editors themselves to assure accuracy.

The primary intent of this Directory is to catalog all existing electronic journals and newsletters that are available over the various academic networks. A secondary intention is to catalog all e-serials that are being produced over the commercial networks. Thus, over time this Directory will provide an entirely comprehensive listing of all e-serials. As the traditional taxonomy of "journal" and "newsletter" is ill-suited to the diversity of formats found within the networks, a third category of "Hypercard Stacks, Digest-Newsletters and Others" is included. This section catalogs hypercard stacks and other formats that represent significant sources of information that are similar in nature to journals and newsletters. It should be noted that digests which are straightforward collections of conversational questions and answers are considered to be a type of list, but any digests which mix a simple list format with the newsletter format are here included.

Ordinary (conversational) digests and lists are covered in Diane Kovacs' compilation, Academic Discussion Lists and Interest Groups, (see page ?). Thus, no attempt has been made to provide a comprehensive listing in this Directory of the hundreds of existing digests and lists.

The complete Directory of Electronic Journals and Newsletters is currently available in ASCII text from the following locations:

* VIA FTP

Edition 2.1 of the Revised Directory of Electronic Journals and Newsletters is now available for anonymous ftp from the LIBrary SOFTware archives at hydra.uwo.ca as file EJOURNALS.TXT

* Via LISTSERV

CONTENTS PROJECT Listserv Fileserver

Send the following commands as an e-mail message to Listserv@uottawa or Listserv@acadvm1.uottawa.ca

GET EJOURNL1 DIRECTRY GET EJOURNL2 DIRECTRY

(Please note the spelling carefully)

* Bulletin of The General Theological Library of Bangor Theological Seminary

The CONTENTS Project distributes a low ascii version of the Bulletin of The General Theological Library of Bangor Theological Seminary, beginning with the October 1992 issue. The following issues are available from Listserv@uottawa or Listserv@acadvm1.uottawa.ca

BTS OCT1992

Contact:

?

* Christian Growth Newsletter

The Christian Growth Newsletter is intended to help Christians grow. It includes personal testimonies, encouraging articles, book reviews, a calendar of events.

To Subscribe:

Send a mail message to Dan Smith, address below. Please include your mail address in your message.

Submissions:

They can be sent to Dan Smith, address below. Submissions will be reviewed, edited by permission, and then distributed.

Related List: none.

Back Issues: Not available.

Contact:

Dan Smith dansmith@olsen.ch uunet!chx400!olsen!dansmith

* IOUDAIOS Review

IOUDAIOS Review is the serial electronic publication of IOUDAIOS@YORKVM1, the international electronic forum for scholarship on Early Judaism and Christian Origins. It is a review journal, which uses the electronic medium to provide thorough peer reviews quickly. It uses a simplified SGML system to facilitate electronic distribution.

ISSN 1183-9937

To Subscribe:

Subscription available through IOUDAIOS: send mail message SUB IOUDAIOS Your Name substituting your name for "Your Name", to LISTSERV@YORKVM1 or Listserv@vm1.yorku.ca.

Submissions:

Submissions are invited and scrutinized by the editors, though the editors remain open to receiving unsolicited reviews.

Related List:

IOUDAIOS@vm1.yorku.ca

Back Issues:

Back issues are available on the fileserver at YORKVM1.

Contact:

David Reimer, Wilfrid Laurier University dreimer4@mach1.wlu.ca

* The Postmodern Jewish Philosophy BITNETWORK

An electronic newsletter/journal of postmodern Judaism, philosophically considered, dedicated both to a philosophic review of the variety of postmodern Jewish discourses and to postmodern reflections on the variety of Jewish philosophies and Jewish philosophic theologies. What "postmodern" means here is a question to be answered only in the doing. The three issues of Volume 1 of the BITNETWORK were devoted to reviews of what our members are doing -- that is, writing -- and to reflections on what this writing may indicate about the direction of postmodern Jewish philosophic practice. Volume 2.1 (Aug '92) presents this practice in three forms: a) "Dialogues in Postmodern Jewish Philosophy"-- transcriptions of dialogues among our members on various issues in Jewish thought and theology. Here, we are trying out dialogue as philosophic method: a kind of philosophic gemara, though we are yet to identify the mishnah; b) Philosophic Essays and Responses: we begin with excerpts from Adi Ophir's political theory of "distributive evils," with applications to Israeli political life; c) Newsletter-like chattings about what we're up to.

The journal works like something in-between the voluminous listserv journals and a standard newsletter-journal. Members send materials electronically to the editor, who edits them into a journal format and then, 3 times a year or so, sends them out to a distribution list of members and others who express interest. The BITNETWORK has also spawned a sister-dialogue group, called BITDIALOGUE and managed by Norbert Samuelson at Temple. In this, members exchange words back and forth about various issues in postmodern Jewish philosophy. The resulting dialogues are a source of ideas and sometimes of copy for the BITNETWORK.

To Subscribe:

Write an electronic letter to POCHS@DREW introducing yourself and asking to join.

Submissions:

After reading our past issues, send essays, responses, thoughts, and news to POCHS@DREW.

Back Issues:

Harcopies for $10/volume, request to address below.

Contact:

Peter Ochs Department of Religion Drew University, Madison, NJ 07940. (201) 408-3222. POCHS@DREW * Religious Studies Publications Journal - CONTENTS

An all electronic, network distributed serial for Religious Studies

* Purpose:

To disseminate via the global computer networks;

1) The table of contents, standard bibliographic information, abstracts and reviews of new and recent publications in Religious Studies

2) Thesis and dissertations, subject bibliographies, glossaries, course syllabi and other pedagogical material.

3) Software reviews of computer programs relevant to Religious Studies research

4) Prepublication papers, dissertation abstracts, solicitations for manuscripts, and provide a central source of information on all networked documents of interest to Religious Studies and related fields.

* Goal:

To provide a comprehensive network distributed source of information on Religious Studies publications, pedagogical and research resources and software tools.

* Overview:

The Religious Studies Publications Journal - CONTENTS, subtitled the CONTENTS Project, is a networked electronic journal that brings together academic publishers and online scholars in Religious Studies and related fields. This journal provides an information service to academic publishers and the more than one thousand scholars in Religious Studies and related fields who are online with BITNET, Internet, and other international computer networks. CONTENTS' primary function is the posting of table of contents, standard bibliographic, pricing and ordering information, abstracts and reviews of new books and journal issues of relevance to academics in the broad field of Religious Studies. This electronic journal also publishes software reviews of programs essential to computer assisted research. CONTENTS extends the scope of electronic publication by combining reviews and abstracts with table of contents and ordering information of new books and journals in print. Publishers are encouraged to provide an electronic mail contact address so as to enable CONTENTS' subscribers to order texts via the network. This electronic journal is designed in anticipation of the developing commercialization of the academic networks and anticipates the growing trend within publishing houses of accommodating individual chapter and single article purchases.

The CONTENTS Project operates by obtaining permission from participating publishers to scan the table of contents from new and recent books and journals and disseminates this information in electronic text to its subscribers. To the table of contents is added information on the publisher, number of pages, price, abstracts and, if available, online ordering contact. Publishers also are encourage to submit abstracts, book notes and reviews for electronic republication.

CONTENTS will also disseminate and archive information on works in progress, conference announcements, solicitations for manuscripts, complete dissertations, bibliographies, networked documents and audio-visual resources of relevance to Religious Studies. All publication records posted by the CONTENTS Project are archived via LISTSERV at Listserv@Uottawa or Listserv@Acadvm1.Uottawa.Ca and may be searched or downloaded by the network community. Eventually, all CONTENTS records will be fully searchable as an online public access database via TELNET.

A supplement to CONTENTS, Lists in Review, provides an overview of many of the Listserv lists (online academic conferences) of relevance to Religious Studies. A team of editors surveys individual lists and records lists of subject keywords that will serve to indicate what has been discussed on any given online conference. These list summaries are compiled by the supplement editor and posted as a short file to CONTENTS and archived on a fileserver. This collection will allow networked researchers to quickly survey what has been discussed on dozens of lists and then retrieve past conversations from a list's logbook.

The list will not be conversational. Frequency of postings will depend on the number of cooperating publishers.

At present, the Religious Studies Publications Journal - CONTENTS, has over seven hundred subscribers in more than twenty seven countries.

* Board of Advisors:

Ann Okerson Director, Association of Research Libraries, Office of Scientific and Academic Publishing Sandra Woolfrey Director, Wilfrid Laurier University Press Michael Neuman Director, Center for Text and Technology, Georgetown University Larry Hurtado Director, Institute for the Humanities, University of Manitoba Philip Davies Director, Sheffield Academic Press, Department of Biblical Studies, University of Sheffield Willard McCarty Assistant Director, Centre for Computing in the Humanities University of Toronto

Robert Kraft University of Pennsylvania James O'Donnell University of Pennsylvania Peter Scott University of Saskatchewan Jean-Claude Guedon University of Montreal David J. Reimer Wilfrid Laurier University Gord Nickerson University of Western Ontario Jim Marchand University of Illinois William Adler North Carolina State University Robin Cover and Raymond Harder Co-Chairs, Computer Assisted Research Group Society of Biblical Literature

* To Subscribe:

The CONTENTS Project:

This Listserv serial disseminates book and journal table of contents, abstracts, and reviews relevant to Religious Studies. It also announces new reviews, bibliographies, glossaries, dissertations and dissertation abstracts, prepublication papers and other research and pedagogical material that is archived on the CONTENTS Project Listserv and FTP fileservers. This list is not conversational.

To subscribe to the Religious Studies Publication Journal - CONTENTS, send the following e-mail message to Listserv@Uottawa or Listserv@Acadvm1.Uottawa.CA SUBSCRIBE CONTENTS your name

The CONTENTS Project Full Text Review Distribution List:

If you wish to automatically receive the full text of reviews published by the CONTENTS Project, you must subscribe to REVIEW-L. To do so, send the following e-mail message to Listserv@Uottawa or Listserv@Acadvm1.Uottawa.CA SUBSCRIBE REVIEW-L your name

To determine the status of your subscription to CONTENTS, send the following e-mail message to the above address: QUERY CONTENTS

To determine the status of your subscription to REVIEW-L, send the following e-mail message to the above address: QUERY REVIEW-L

Contact the project director at 441495@Uottawa or 441495@Acadvm1.Uottawa.CA if you experience difficulty subscribing to CONTENTS.

These lists will not be conversational. Frequency of postings will depend on the number of cooperating publishers.

* Back Issues:

To retrieve previous postings to an issue of the Religious Studies Publications Journal - CONTENTS, send an e-mail message to Listserv@Uottawa or Listserv@Acadvm1.Uottawa.CA, containing the GET file name command based on the names of monthly logbooks:

GET CONTENTS LOG9201 GET CONTENTS LOG9202 GET CONTENTS LOG9203 GET CONTENTS LOG9204 GET CONTENTS LOG9205 GET CONTENTS LOG9206 GET CONTENTS LOG9207 GET CONTENTS LOG9208 GET CONTENTS LOG9209 GET CONTENTS LOG9210

To get a list of individual religious studies related bibliographies, reviews, articles, glossaries, and other files archived on the CONTENTS Project's LISTSERV database, send the e-mail message

GET CONTENTS FILELIST

Access to these logbooks and archived files are not restricted to CONTENTS subscribers. These logbooks can be searched via LDBASE.

For more information about the Religious Studies Publications Journal - CONTENTS:

* Contact:

Michael Strangelove Department of Religious Studies University of Ottawa FAX: (613) 564-6641 177 Waller, Ottawa, Ontario Voice: (613) 564-2300 CANADA K1N 6N5 441495@Acadvm1.Uottawa.CA 441495@Uottawa

* OFFLINE

Robert Kraft's OFFLINE column has appeared in printed form since 1984 in the Bulletin of the Council of Societies for the Study of Religion and in the Religious Studies News. Despite its name, it also now appears in prepublication electronic form on the HUMANIST discussion list at the node BROWNVM and on the IOUDAIOS list at YORKVM1. OFFLINE began as a service of the Computer Assisted Research Group of the Society of Biblical Literature, but it attempts to cover more widely the actual and potential use of computers in religious studies in general. Currently, an editorial team often contributes items for inclusion in the column.

There is no subscription list but if one is a member of either HUMANIST@BROWNVM or IOUDAIOS@YORKVM1 then it will be sent to you as it is issued to these lists.

* Back Issues:

A complete set of OFFLINE issues can be retrieved via FTP from 137.122.6.16 in the directory /pub/religion/ as offline.zip

Back issues are also available via Listserv from the HUMANIST filelist which can be obtained by issuing the command to Listserv@brownvm

GET HUMANIST FILELIST

You may obtain a copy by issuing the command -- GET filename filetype HUMANIST -- either interactively or as an e-mail message, addressed to ListServ@Brownvm. Thus on a VM/CMS system, you say interactively: TELL LISTSERV AT BROWNVM GET filename filetype; if you are not on a VM/CMS system, send mail to ListServ@Brownvm with the GET command as the first and only line.

* Contact:

Please send information, suggestions or queries concerning OFFLINE to Robert A. Kraft, Box 36 College Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA 19104-6303. Telephone (215) 898-5827. Bitnet address: KRAFT@PENNDRLS or KRAFT@PENNDRLS.UPENN.EDU. To request printed information or materials from OFFLINE, please supply an appropriately sized, self-addressed envelope or an address label. A complete electronic file of OFFLINE columns (some 500K and growing) is available upon request (for IBM/DOS, Mac, or IBYCUS), or from the HUMANIST discussion group fileServer (see above).

* Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Newsletter

The CONTENTS Project distributes a low ascii version of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Newsletter, beginning with the May 1992 issue. The following issues are available from Listserv@uottawa or Listserv@acadvm1.uottawa.ca

TLG_News May_92

Contact:

Theodore F. Brunner, Director tlg@uci tlg@orion.oac.uci.edu

* Inactive Electronic Religious Studies Serials:

Online Notes. Electronic Newsletter (defunct) by Jack Abercrombe. Four issues (11\88 - 11\89) available from HUMANIST, Listserv@Brownvm as ONLINE NOTE1188; ONLINE NOTE0389; ONLINE NOTE0989; ONLINE NOTE1189.

* 3. Ecunet and PresbyNet *

This section will eventually provide comprehensive information on North American denominational networks.

What is Ecunet?

Ecunet is a group of denominational and other "networks", consisting of people who use computers to help them communicate. Individual members of Ecunet can send electronic messages to around 2,000 other participants, plus engage in electronic "meetings" or conferences. There are currently about 15 denominations participating, either officially or unofficially. The cost of an account on the system is $11 per month plus the cost of long distance calls.

Ecunet is made up of the following denominational networks:

* American Baptist Network * Anglican/Episcopal Network * The Black Religious Studies Network * The Church of the Brethren * Disciples of Christ * The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America * PresbyNet -- The Presbyterian Church (USA) * The United Church of Christ * The United Church of Canada

* Cost: There is no sign up charge for Ecunet. There is a monthly fee of $11.00 and a connect charge of $12.00 per hour of prime time usage (6 AM to 6 PM Monday to Friday) and $7.00 per hour of non-prime time usage.

* Access: Set Baud rate to 2400 or higher Set Parity to NO Set Data Bits to 8 and Stop Bits to 1 Dial (502) 569-8501 Log your signup session to preserve important user information. Answer the prompt Username with signup. Answer the prompt Password with ECUNET.

For more information, contact:

Merrill Cook PresbyNet Administrator Interconnect Director for Ecunet mcook%pcusa01@uunet.uu.net

What is PresbyNet?

PresbyNet is a network sponsored by the Stewardship and Communication Ministry Unit of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). It consists of a dial-up host running Participate software, which offers both electronic mail and conferencing or "electronic meetings". There are currently no fees charged to Presbyterian members, other than the cost of the long distance charges to call the host in Louisville. PresbyNet is used by a large proportion of headquarters staff as well as regional staff and members and pastors of some local congregations. In addition, PresbyNet is a part of Ecunet, so Presbyterian members have access to all Ecunet members.

For more information, contact:

Merrill Cook PresbyNet Administrator Interconnect Director for Ecunet mcook%pcusa01@uunet.uu.net

* 4. Networked Organizations and Associations *

The following is a listing of the electronic mail addresses of networked organizations, academic associations, scholarly presses and commercial services directly relevant to Religious Studies. If you are aware of errors in this listing, or are aware of entries that should be included, please contact the author (441495@uottawa or 441495@acadvm1.uottawa.ca). Please note that these addresses have not been verified.

* Aboriginal Studies Electronic Data Archive

aiatsis@peg.pegasus.oz.au (within Australia) aiatsis@peg.apc.org (outside Australia)

* American Arab Scientific Society

M. Hashem Sherif mhs@homxa.att.com

* The American Jewish Information Network, Inc.

AJIN Board of Directors ajin@israel.nysernet.org

Alan Stein, Chairman stein@uconnvm.uconn.edu

* American Oriental Society

Jonathan Rodgers Jonathan_Rodgers@ um.cc.umich.edu GDZT@UMICHUM

* American Schools of Oriental Research

Rudolph Dornemann DORNASOR@JHUVM James Flanagan JWF2@PO.CWRU.EDU Pam Turner TURNASOR@JHUVM

* Bene Brak (ATM)/ Biblical Concordance in Hebrew

boyarin@taunivm

* CDWord Project

zrcc1001@smuvm1 robin@ling.uta.edu robin@txsil.lonestar.org robin@utafll.lonestar.org

* Center for Computer Analysis of Texts (CCAT)

Robert A. Kraft kraft@penndrls.upenn.edu

* Centre d'Analyse et de Traitment Automatique de la Bible

Prof. Joseph Shatzmiller, Directeur catab@frsun12

* Center for Studies in Oral Tradition

CSOTTIME@Mizzou1.bitnet CSOTTIME@Mizzou1.missouri.edu

* Centre de Traitement Electronique des Documents (CETEDOC)

thomdoc@tedm.ucl.ac.be

* Computer Assisted Tools for Septuagint Studies

Robert A. Kraft kraft@penndrls.upenn.edu

* Coombspapers Social Sciences Research Data Bank

Dr T. Matthew Ciolek or Mr Dave Ritchie coombspapers@coombs.anu.edu.au

* Ecunet

Merrill Cook PresbyNet Administrator Interconnect Director for Ecunet mcook%pcusa01@uunet.uu.net

* The Georgetown Center for Text and Technology

Margaret Friedman mfriedman@guvax mfriedman@guvax.georgetown.edu

* Global Jewish Information Network

Dov Weiner, Director viner@bguvm.bgu.ac.il

* Greek Tutor Program

John Hurd hurd@epas.utoronto.ca

* Institute for Information Retrieval and Computational Linguistics

Yaacov Choueka choueka@bimacs choueka@bimacs.bui.ac.il

* International Organization of Septuagint and Cognate Studies

Eugene Ulrich FBASC@IRISHMVS

* The Israel Project at Nysernet

israel.nysernet.org Avrum Goodblatt, Director goodblat@israel.nysernet.org heasif@shum.huji.ac.il

Chaim Dworkin, North American Coordinator dworkin@israel.nysernet.org chaim@linc.cis.upenn.edu

Warren Burstein, System Administrator warren@israel.nysernet.org warren@itex.jct.ac.il

* Jewish Inscriptions Project

Dr. Douglas R. de Lacey del2@uk.ac.cam.phx del2@phx.cam.ac.uk

* The Leiden Armenian Database

Dr. J.J.S. Weitenberg lettjw@hlerul2

* Library Master / Balboa Software

Harry Hahne, President hahne@epas.utoronto.ca

* Multi-Linguae Software / Gamma Productions

Linda Brandt 72567.1343@Compuserve.Com

* Michigan Project for Computer- Assisted Biblical Studies

Dr. H. Van Dyke Parunak van@iti.org

* Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project

Robert M. Whiting, Managing Editor whiting@finuh or parpola@finuh whiting@cc.helsinki.fi or parpola@cc.helsinki.fi

* Oxford Text Archive

Alan Morrison and Lou Burnard JANET: Archive@Uk.Ac.Oxford.Vax ARPANET: archive%uk.ac.ox.vax@ucl-cs.arpa

* The Packard Humanities Institute

Brigitte R. Comparini xb.m07@stanford

* PresbyNet

Merrill Cook PresbyNet Administrator Interconnect Director for Ecunet mcook%pcusa01@uunet.uu.net

* Priceton Theological Seminary/ Qumran Machine- Readable Non-Biblical Texts

Q2835@Pucc

* Project Gutenberg

Michael S. Hart, Director National Clearinghouse for Machine Readable Texts hart@uiucvmd hart@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu

* The Responsa Project

Uri J. Schild, Director schild@bimacs.cs.biu.ac.il

* Scholars Press

scholars@emoryu1 scholars@unix.cc.emory.edu

* Society of Biblical Literature

sblexec@emoryu1 sblexec@unix.cc.emory.edu

* Talmud Text Database

The Saul Liberman Institute for Talmudic Research f12016@barilan.bitnet

* Thesaurus Linguae Graecae

Theodore F. Brunner, Director tlg@uci tlg@orion.oac.uci.edu

End of VOLUME THREE

* Religious Studies Publications Journal - CONTENTS

An all electronic, network distributed serial for Religious Studies

* Purpose:

To disseminate via the global computer networks;

1) The table of contents, standard bibliographic information, abstracts and reviews of new and recent publications in Religious Studies

2) Thesis and dissertations, subject bibliographies, glossaries, course syllabi and other pedagogical material.

3) Software reviews of computer programs relevant to Religious Studies research

4) Prepublication papers, dissertation abstracts, solicitations for manuscripts, and provide a central source of information on all networked documents of interest to Religious Studies and related fields.

* Goal:

To provide a comprehensive network distributed source of information on Religious Studies publications, pedagogical and research resources and software tools.

* Overview:

The Religious Studies Publications Journal - CONTENTS, subtitled the CONTENTS Project, is a networked electronic journal that brings together academic publishers and online scholars in Religious Studies and related fields. This journal provides an information service to academic publishers and the more than one thousand scholars in Religious Studies and related fields who are online with BITNET, Internet, and other international computer networks. CONTENTS' primary function is the posting of table of contents, standard bibliographic, pricing and ordering information, abstracts and reviews of new books and journal issues of relevance to academics in the broad field of Religious Studies. This electronic journal also publishes software reviews of programs essential to computer assisted research. CONTENTS extends the scope of electronic publication by combining reviews and abstracts with table of contents and ordering information of new books and journals in print. Publishers are encouraged to provide an electronic mail contact address so as to enable CONTENTS' subscribers to order texts via the network. This electronic journal is designed in anticipation of the developing commercialization of the academic networks and anticipates the growing trend within publishing houses of accommodating individual chapter and single article purchases.

The CONTENTS Project operates by obtaining permission from participating publishers to scan the table of contents from new and recent books and journals and disseminates this information in electronic text to its subscribers. To the table of contents is added information on the publisher, number of pages, price, abstracts and, if available, online ordering contact. Publishers also are encourage to submit abstracts, book notes and reviews for electronic republication.

CONTENTS will also disseminate and archive information on works in progress, conference announcements, solicitations for manuscripts, complete dissertations, bibliographies, networked documents and audio-visual resources of relevance to Religious Studies. All publication records posted by the CONTENTS Project are archived via LISTSERV at Listserv@Uottawa or Listserv@Acadvm1.Uottawa.Ca and may be searched or downloaded by the network community. Eventually, all CONTENTS records will be fully searchable as an online public access database via TELNET.

A supplement to CONTENTS, Lists in Review, provides an overview of many of the Listserv lists (online academic conferences) of relevance to Religious Studies. A team of editors surveys individual lists and records lists of subject keywords that will serve to indicate what has been discussed on any given online conference. These list summaries are compiled by the supplement editor and posted as a short file to CONTENTS and archived on a fileserver. This collection will allow networked researchers to quickly survey what has been discussed on dozens of lists and then retrieve past conversations from a list's logbook.

The list will not be conversational. Frequency of postings will depend on the number of cooperating publishers.

At present, the Religious Studies Publications Journal - CONTENTS, has over seven hundred subscribers in more than twenty seven countries.

* Board of Advisors:

Ann Okerson Director, Association of Research Libraries, Office of Scientific and Academic Publishing Sandra Woolfrey Director, Wilfrid Laurier University Press Michael Neuman Director, Center for Text and Technology, Georgetown University Larry Hurtado Director, Institute for the Humanities, University of Manitoba Philip Davies Director, Sheffield Academic Press, Department of Biblical Studies, University of Sheffield Willard McCarty Assistant Director, Centre for Computing in the Humanities University of Toronto

Robert Kraft University of Pennsylvania James O'Donnell University of Pennsylvania Peter Scott University of Saskatchewan Jean-Claude Guedon University of Montreal David J. Reimer Wilfrid Laurier University Gord Nickerson University of Western Ontario Jim Marchand University of Illinois William Adler North Carolina State University Robin Cover and Raymond Harder Co-Chairs, Computer Assisted Research Group Society of Biblical Literature

* To Subscribe:

The CONTENTS Project:

This Listserv serial disseminates book and journal table of contents, abstracts, and reviews relevant to Religious Studies. It also announces new reviews, bibliographies, glossaries, dissertations and dissertation abstracts, prepublication papers and other research and pedagogical material that is archived on the CONTENTS Project Listserv and FTP fileservers. This list is not conversational.

To subscribe to the Religious Studies Publication Journal - CONTENTS, send the following e-mail message to Listserv@Uottawa or Listserv@Acadvm1.Uottawa.CA SUBSCRIBE CONTENTS your name

The CONTENTS Project Full Text Review Distribution List:

If you wish to automatically receive the full text of reviews published by the CONTENTS Project, you must subscribe to REVIEW-L. To do so, send the following e-mail message to Listserv@Uottawa or Listserv@Acadvm1.Uottawa.CA SUBSCRIBE REVIEW-L your name

To determine the status of your subscription to CONTENTS, send the following e-mail message to the above address: QUERY CONTENTS

To determine the status of your subscription to REVIEW-L, send the following e-mail message to the above address: QUERY REVIEW-L

Contact the project director at 441495@Uottawa or 441495@Acadvm1.Uottawa.CA if you experience difficulty subscribing to CONTENTS.

These lists will not be conversational. Frequency of postings will depend on the number of cooperating publishers.

* Back Issues:

To retrieve previous postings to an issue of the Religious Studies Publications Journal - CONTENTS, send an e-mail message to Listserv@Uottawa or Listserv@Acadvm1.Uottawa.CA, containing the GET file name command based on the names of monthly logbooks:

GET CONTENTS LOG9201 GET CONTENTS LOG9202 GET CONTENTS LOG9203 GET CONTENTS LOG9204 GET CONTENTS LOG9205 GET CONTENTS LOG9206 GET CONTENTS LOG9207 GET CONTENTS LOG9208 GET CONTENTS LOG9209 GET CONTENTS LOG9210

To get a list of individual religious studies related bibliographies, reviews, articles, glossaries, and other files archived on the CONTENTS Project's LISTSERV database, send the e-mail message

GET CONTENTS FILELIST

Access to these logbooks and archived files are not restricted to CONTENTS subscribers. These logbooks can be searched via LDBASE.

For more information about the Religious Studies Publications Journal - CONTENTS:

* Contact:

Michael Strangelove Department of Religious Studies University of Ottawa FAX: (613) 564-6641 177 Waller, Ottawa, Ontario Voice: (613) 564-2300 CANADA K1N 6N5 441495@Acadvm1.Uottawa.CA 441495@Uottawa

* OFFLINE

Robert Kraft's OFFLINE column has appeared in printed form since 1984 in the Bulletin of the Council of Societies for the Study of Religion and in the Religious Studies News. Despite its name, it also now appears in prepublication electronic form on the HUMANIST discussion list at the node BROWNVM and on the IOUDAIOS list at YORKVM1. OFFLINE began as a service of the Computer Assisted Research Group of the Society of Biblical Literature, but it attempts to cover more widely the actual and potential use of computers in religious studies in general. Currently, an editorial team often contributes items for inclusion in the column.

There is no subscription list but if one is a member of either HUMANIST@BROWNVM or IOUDAIOS@YORKVM1 then it will be sent to you as it is issued to these lists.

* Back Issues:

A complete set of OFFLINE issues can be retrieved via FTP from 137.122.6.16 in the directory /pub/religion/ as offline.zip

Back issues are also available via Listserv from the HUMANIST filelist which can be obtained by issuing the command to Listserv@brownvm

GET HUMANIST FILELIST

You may obtain a copy by issuing the command -- GET filename filetype HUMANIST -- either interactively or as an e-mail message, addressed to ListServ@Brownvm. Thus on a VM/CMS system, you say interactively: TELL LISTSERV AT BROWNVM GET filename filetype; if you are not on a VM/CMS system, send mail to ListServ@Brownvm with the GET command as the first and only line.

* Contact:

Please send information, suggestions or queries concerning OFFLINE to Robert A. Kraft, Box 36 College Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA 19104-6303. Telephone (215) 898-5827. Bitnet address: KRAFT@PENNDRLS or KRAFT@PENNDRLS.UPENN.EDU. To request printed information or materials from OFFLINE, please supply an appropriately sized, self-addressed envelope or an address label. A complete electronic file of OFFLINE columns (some 500K and growing) is available upon request (for IBM/DOS, Mac, or IBYCUS), or from the HUMANIST discussion group fileServer (see above).

* Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Newsletter

The CONTENTS Project distributes a low ascii version of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Newsletter, beginning with the May 1992 issue. The following issues are available from Listserv@uottawa or Listserv@acadvm1.uottawa.ca

TLG_News May_92

Contact:

Theodore F. Brunner, Director tlg@uci tlg@orion.oac.uci.edu

* Inactive Electronic Religious Studies Serials:

Online Notes. Electronic Newsletter (defunct) by Jack Abercrombe. Four issues (11\88 - 11\89) available from HUMANIST, Listserv@Brownvm as ONLINE NOTE1188; ONLINE NOTE0389; ONLINE NOTE0989; ONLINE NOTE1189.

* 3. Ecunet and PresbyNet *

This section will eventually provide comprehensive information on North American denominational networks.

What is Ecunet?

Ecunet is a group of denominational and other "networks", consisting of people who use computers to help them communicate. Individual members of Ecunet can send electronic messages to around 2,000 other participants, plus engage in electronic "meetings" or conferences. There are currently about 15 denominations participating, either officially or unofficially. The cost of an account on the system is $11 per month plus the cost of long distance calls.

Ecunet is made up of the following denominational networks:

* American Baptist Network * Anglican/Episcopal Network * The Black Religious Studies Network * The Church of the Brethren * Disciples of Christ * The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America * PresbyNet -- The Presbyterian Church (USA) * The United Church of Christ * The United Church of Canada

* Cost: There is no sign up charge for Ecunet. There is a monthly fee of $11.00 and a connect charge of $12.00 per hour of prime time usage (6 AM to 6 PM Monday to Friday) and $7.00 per hour of non-prime time usage.

* Access: Set Baud rate to 2400 or higher Set Parity to NO Set Data Bits to 8 and Stop Bits to 1 Dial (502) 569-8501 Log your signup session to preserve important user information. Answer the prompt Username with signup. Answer the prompt Password with ECUNET.

For more information, contact:

Merrill Cook PresbyNet Administrator Interconnect Director for Ecunet mcook%pcusa01@uunet.uu.net

What is PresbyNet?

PresbyNet is a network sponsored by the Stewardship and Communication Ministry Unit of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). It consists of a dial-up host running Participate software, which offers both electronic mail and conferencing or "electronic meetings". There are currently no fees charged to Presbyterian members, other than the cost of the long distance charges to call the host in Louisville. PresbyNet is used by a large proportion of headquarters staff as well as regional staff and members and pastors of some local congregations. In addition, PresbyNet is a part of Ecunet, so Presbyterian members have access to all Ecunet members.

For more information, contact:

Merrill Cook PresbyNet Administrator Interconnect Director for Ecunet mcook%pcusa01@uunet.uu.net

* 4. Networked Organizations and Associations *

The following is a listing of the electronic mail addresses of networked organizations, academic associations, scholarly presses and commercial services directly relevant to Religious Studies. If you are aware of errors in this listing, or are aware of entries that should be included, please contact the author (441495@uottawa or 441495@acadvm1.uottawa.ca). Please note that these addresses have not been verified.

* Aboriginal Studies Electronic Data Archive

aiatsis@peg.pegasus.oz.au (within Australia) aiatsis@peg.apc.org (outside Australia)

* American Arab Scientific Society

M. Hashem Sherif mhs@homxa.att.com

* The American Jewish Information Network, Inc.

AJIN Board of Directors ajin@israel.nysernet.org

Alan Stein, Chairman stein@uconnvm.uconn.edu

* American Oriental Society

Jonathan Rodgers Jonathan_Rodgers@ um.cc.umich.edu GDZT@UMICHUM

* American Schools of Oriental Research

Rudolph Dornemann DORNASOR@JHUVM James Flanagan JWF2@PO.CWRU.EDU Pam Turner TURNASOR@JHUVM

* Bene Brak (ATM)/ Biblical Concordance in Hebrew

boyarin@taunivm

* CDWord Project

zrcc1001@smuvm1 robin@ling.uta.edu robin@txsil.lonestar.org robin@utafll.lonestar.org

* Center for Computer Analysis of Texts (CCAT)

Robert A. Kraft kraft@penndrls.upenn.edu

* Centre d'Analyse et de Traitment Automatique de la Bible

Prof. Joseph Shatzmiller, Directeur catab@frsun12

* Center for Studies in Oral Tradition

CSOTTIME@Mizzou1.bitnet CSOTTIME@Mizzou1.missouri.edu

* Centre de Traitement Electronique des Documents (CETEDOC)

thomdoc@tedm.ucl.ac.be

* Computer Assisted Tools for Septuagint Studies

Robert A. Kraft kraft@penndrls.upenn.edu

* Coombspapers Social Sciences Research Data Bank

Dr T. Matthew Ciolek or Mr Dave Ritchie coombspapers@coombs.anu.edu.au

* Ecunet

Merrill Cook PresbyNet Administrator Interconnect Director for Ecunet mcook%pcusa01@uunet.uu.net

* The Georgetown Center for Text and Technology

Margaret Friedman mfriedman@guvax mfriedman@guvax.georgetown.edu

* Global Jewish Information Network

Dov Weiner, Director viner@bguvm.bgu.ac.il

* Greek Tutor Program

John Hurd hurd@epas.utoronto.ca

* Institute for Information Retrieval and Computational Linguistics

Yaacov Choueka choueka@bimacs choueka@bimacs.bui.ac.il

* International Organization of Septuagint and Cognate Studies

Eugene Ulrich FBASC@IRISHMVS

* The Israel Project at Nysernet

israel.nysernet.org Avrum Goodblatt, Director goodblat@israel.nysernet.org heasif@shum.huji.ac.il

Chaim Dworkin, North American Coordinator dworkin@israel.nysernet.org chaim@linc.cis.upenn.edu

Warren Burstein, System Administrator warren@israel.nysernet.org warren@itex.jct.ac.il

* Jewish Inscriptions Project

Dr. Douglas R. de Lacey del2@uk.ac.cam.phx del2@phx.cam.ac.uk

* The Leiden Armenian Database

Dr. J.J.S. Weitenberg lettjw@hlerul2

* Library Master / Balboa Software

Harry Hahne, President hahne@epas.utoronto.ca

* Multi-Linguae Software / Gamma Productions

Linda Brandt 72567.1343@Compuserve.Com

* Michigan Project for Computer- Assisted Biblical Studies

Dr. H. Van Dyke Parunak van@iti.org

* Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project

Robert M. Whiting, Managing Editor whiting@finuh or parpola@finuh whiting@cc.helsinki.fi or parpola@cc.helsinki.fi

* Oxford Text Archive

Alan Morrison and Lou Burnard JANET: Archive@Uk.Ac.Oxford.Vax ARPANET: archive%uk.ac.ox.vax@ucl-cs.arpa

* The Packard Humanities Institute

Brigitte R. Comparini xb.m07@stanford

* PresbyNet

Merrill Cook PresbyNet Administrator Interconnect Director for Ecunet mcook%pcusa01@uunet.uu.net

* Priceton Theological Seminary/ Qumran Machine- Readable Non-Biblical Texts

Q2835@Pucc

* Project Gutenberg

Michael S. Hart, Director National Clearinghouse for Machine Readable Texts hart@uiucvmd hart@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu

* The Responsa Project

Uri J. Schild, Director schild@bimacs.cs.biu.ac.il

* Scholars Press

scholars@emoryu1 scholars@unix.cc.emory.edu

* Society of Biblical Literature

sblexec@emoryu1 sblexec@unix.cc.emory.edu

* Talmud Text Database

The Saul Liberman Institute for Talmudic Research f12016@barilan.bitnet

* Thesaurus Linguae Graecae

Theodore F. Brunner, Director tlg@uci tlg@orion.oac.uci.edu

End of VOLUME THREE