Links library: Religious media

This list provides links and resources to North American print, broadcast and electronic media affiliated with denominations or faith groups.

Except as noted, all descriptions come from the linked sites, and do not imply endorsement by or affiliation with RNA.

Interfaith

  • CrossCurrents Online – Provides “the very best thought and writing being done on the world’s major faith traditions” as well as recommended resources for better understanding of religious traditions and the interaction between them.
  • Beliefnet.com – “The ambitious venture-capital-backed multifaith ‘supersite’ on religion, spirituality and morality.”

Bahá’í

Buddhism

Christianity

Official faith group newspapers and magazines

Official faith group news services

Nonprofits, magazines and media groups

Electronic media

Local and regional religious press

Hinduism

  • Back to Godhead – Newsletter from the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.
  • Hinduism Today – Monthly magazine of international Hinduism published by Hawaii-based teacher Sivaya Subramuniyaswami.

Islam

Official faith group newspapers and magazines

Electronic media

Arab and Muslim press

 

 

Jainism

Judaism

Official faith group news services

Nonprofits and media groups

Electronic media

Local and regional religious press

Mormon (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)

Official faith group news services

Native Peoples

Scientology

Atheists/Secular Humanists

Trade and professional associations

  • American Jewish Press Association – Founded in 1944 as a voluntary not-for-profit professional association for the English-language Jewish Press in North America. Today, its membership consists of about 250 newspapers, magazines, individual journalists and affiliated organizations throughout the United States and Canada.
  • Associated Church Press –  Founded in 1916, ACP is an international community of communication professionals brought together by faithfulness to their craft and by a common task of reflecting, describing, and supporting the life of faith and the Christian community.
  • Catholic Press Association – Its mission is to build and strengthen the value and worth of the Catholic press by facilitating the professional, economic and spiritual growth of members.
  • Episcopal Communicator – A self-supporting organization of persons with communication responsibilities in The Episcopal Church.
  • Evangelical Christian Publishers Association – An international non-profit trade organization comprised of member companies that are involved in the publishing and distribution of Christian content worldwide.
  • Evangelical Press Association  – Seeks to promote the cause of evangelical Christianity and to enhance the influence of Christian journalism.
  • Religion Communicators Council – An interfaith association of religion communicators at work in print and electronic communication, marketing and in public relations.

Media literacy and criticism

  • The Arab Media section of al-bab.com aims to monitor these developments in the fields of newspapers, radio, television, cinema and the internet, and to provide a forum for debate on such issues as freedom and censorship.
  • Center for Media Literacy – An educational organization that promotes media literacy.
  • Center for Media, Religion and Culture – University of Colorado