Religious Tolerance -- lots of information about lots of religions. As you can tell from the name, the focus of the website is educating and promoting tolerance.

Adherents.com compiles statistics about different religions around the world. They also have descriptions of the religions they mention.

The Freedom Forum is associated with the Newseum. It deals with all First Amendment issues, including religious freedom.

This is a quote from this web site: "The goal of www.hindu.org is to publish and connect all Hindu organizations, leaders and resources such as news, events, publications, Vedic sciences, art, music and culture on the Internet's World Wide Web. . . Most of the content of www.hindu.org is links to other Hindu or Hindu-related websites. However, it shall be noted that we do host some content here, primarily simple web pages for Hindu satgurus, swamis and pundits who do not have the facilities to publish their own websites."

This site is designed for children, but parts of it also work for those of us with very little knowledge about Hinduism.

This is the Dalai Lama's official web site. A quote from the site: "This Internet site is dedicated to creating awareness of the life and work of His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet and has been created under the auspicies of the Office of Tibet and the Tibetan Government-in-Exile."

The Buddhism Depot: lots of stuff on Buddhism, including an introduction and quotes from the scriptures.

This page is the homepage of the temple our Buddhist guest speaker came from. Her teacher is Jetsunma Ahkon Lahmo, and this is their web site. "Kunzang Palyul Choling (KPC) is a center for the study and practice of Tibetan Buddhism in the Nyingma tradition. KPC's main temple is located in Poolesville, MD."

This is the Hebrew Bible online.

A quote from the site: "This Islamic guide is for non-Muslims who would like to understand Islam, Muslims (Moslems), and the Holy Quran (Koran). It is rich in information,references, bibliography, and illustrations. It has been reviewed and edited by many professors and well-educated people. It is brief and simple to read, yet contains much scientific knowledge. It contains the whole book, A Brief Illustrated Guide to Understanding Islam, and more."

http://www2.ncsu.edu/ncsu/aern/afridan.html

http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/

http://www.holycross.edu/departments/library/website/africanr.html

http://www.bahai.org/

http://www.us.bahai.org/

http://www.bahaindex.com/

http://bahai-library.org/

http://www.religioustolerance.org/caodaism.htm

http://www.caodai.org/

http://www.caodaism.net/menu.htm

http://dmoz.org/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Cao_Dai/ (this link provides links to other sites)

http://www.religionfacts.com/a-z-religion-index/cao_dai.htm

http://www2.kenyon.edu/depts/religion/fac/Adler/reln270/links270.htm

http://www.thaiworldview.com/bouddha/chinese.htm

http://asia.msu.edu/eastasia/China/religion.html

http://www.religionfacts.com/chinese_religion/index.htm

http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/chinrelg.html

http://www.religioustolerance.org/confuciu.htm

http://www.thespiritualsanctuary.org/Confucianism/Confucianism.html

http://www.wam.umd.edu/~tkang/

http://www.religionfacts.com/a-z-religion-index/confucianism.htm

http://www.religioustolerance.org/jainism.htm

http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/jainhlinks.html

http://www.jainism.free-online.co.uk/

http://www.umich.edu/~umjains/jainismsimplified/jainsimp.html

http://www.jainworld.com/

http://web.archive.org/web/20060829153306/religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/rast.html

http://www.religionfacts.com/a-z-religion-index/rastafarianism.htm

http://www.important.ca/rastafari.html

http://www.jamaicans.com/culture/rasta/index.shtml

http://altreligion.about.com/library/faqs/bl_rastafarianism.htm

http://www.religioustolerance.org/roma.htm

http://www.romani.org/

http://www.peak.sfu.ca/the-peak/98-2/issue6/feature.html

http://dmoz.org/Society/Ethnicity/Romani/Religion/

http://www.religioustolerance.org/shinto.htm

http://jinja.jp/english/s-0.html

http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2056.html

http://www.religioustolerance.org/sikhism.htm

http://www.sikhs.org/

http://www.srigurugranthsahib.org/

http://www.sikhism.com/

Look at the Chinese Religions links above, and:

http://www.religioustolerance.org/taoism.htm

http://www.religiousworlds.com/taoism/index.html

http://www.tenrikyo.or.jp/

http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/tenrikyo.html

http://www.religioustolerance.org/witchcra.htm

http://www.wicca.org/ -- may be blocked by MCPS -- try it from home

http://www.witchvox.com/ -- may be blocked by MCPS -- try it from home

http://www.yoruba.org/

http://www.fa.indiana.edu/~conner/yoruba/cut.html

http://server1.fandm.edu/departments/Anthropology/Bastian/ANT269/Yrelig.html

http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/people/Yoruba.html

http://www.zoroastrian.org/

http://www.zoroastrianism.com/

http://www.religioustolerance.org/zoroastr.htm

http://www.avesta.org/zfaq.html

http://www.zoroastrianism.cc/