E-Books

• Electronic books held at the University of Cambridge can be accessed via the Newton catalogues and LibrarySearch (a Raven password is needed to access them outside the University) by searching for the title in the usual way. More information on free ebook collections is available here.

• Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture:
  • online versions of the Cambridge Companion series of books, including the Cambridge Companion to Aquinas, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Jesus. They can be searched and accessed via the Newton Catalogue.
• Internet Sacred Text Archive:
  • an impressive collection of religious material from many different traditions.
• Project Gutenberg:
  • a fully searchable collection of over 20,000 multilanguage ebooks. Many classic titles and other formats such as audio books. It has a fully searchable online catalogue.
• Religion Online:
  • vast selection of full texts.
• Buddhism
  • Access to Insight: Readings in Theravada Buddhism: modern English translations of over a thousand important suttas from the Pali canon, fully indexed, and accompanied by commentaries and other relevant secondary works.
• Christianity
  • Christian Classics Ethereal Library: a valuable resource containing numerous classical Christian texts, including the entire Church Fathers series, plus works by Boethius, Augustine, Calvin and others.
  • New Advent: an extensive site offering selections from the works of the church fathers, the complete Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas, the Catholic Encyclopedia and the Douay-Rheims translation of the Bible.
• Islam
  • Al-Islam.org: Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project: over four thousand items including books, journal articles and audio recordings.
  • Holy Quran: translated by Abdullah Yusuf Ali.
  • Multilingual Quran: the Arabic text along with three English translations (those of Shakir, Abdullah Yusuf Ali and Pickthall) and the Pooya/Ali English commentary.
  • USC-MSA Compendium of Muslim Texts: translations of the Qur'an and the Hadith, plus a substantial collection of Islamic writings.
• Sikhism
  • Sri Granth: a resource for studying the Guru Granth Sahib.
• Zoroastrianism
  • Avesta - Zoroastrian Archives: the complete Avesta in both English and the original Avestan language, plus an assortment of the religion's middle-Persian/Pahlavi scriptures.

 

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