INITIAL LIST OF INTERNET MAILING LISTS ON RELIGION-RELATED TOPICS

August 6, 1993
Bruce Schuman
origin@rain.org



This list has been compiled largely from the global list of Bitnet
listerservers from UCSBVM on August 3, 1993, with the addition of some
other groups not listed on the bitnet list.  These discussions have been
included here because they are directly concerned with religious and
spiritual issues.

We expect to maintain and expand this list, to make it as comprehensive as
possible.  Suggestions for inclusion should be sent to Liesel Deutsch,
LieselFD@aol.com


INITIAL SUBSCRIPTION COMMANDS:

Subscriptions to Bitnet and Unix listservers take the same form: a one line
comand sent to LISTSERV@list.address.  The commands are not case-sensitive,
and can be in lower-case.  They are often shown in upper case for the sake
of clarity.

Commands can be grouped together in one mailing.  Thus, an initial
Bitnet subscription command might take the following form:

Prompt: mail listserv@brownvm.bitnet
Subject:                      [no subject required, leave blank]
sub belief-l John Smith       [your name, as you wish to be known]
review belief-l               [returns list description, list of members]
index belief-l                [returns list of available archived files]
query belief-l                [returns settings of new account]
help                          [returns general command descriptions]




ON BITNET GATEWAYS:

Many Internet users can mail directly to Bitnet addresses, without a
"gateway".  These users can simply address their mail to
listname@address.bitnet

Other users must add a link to the address.  There are many internet/bitnet
gateways available.  One gateway is cmsa.berkeley.edu, such that the
address for sending mail to a bitnet list or listserver is
LISTNAME%address@cmsa.berkeley.edu




LIST FORM:

The below list takes the following form

LISTNAME                      Descriptive List Title
SUBSCRIPTION ADDRESS          SUBSCRIPTION COMMAND




ABBREVIATED LIST OF INTERNET MAILING LISTS ON RELIGION-RELATED 
TOPICS:
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ALEXANDRIA                    Western Esoteric Traditions
majordomo@world.std.com       Subscribe Alexandria

ANGLICAN                      Episcopal Mailing List
LISTSERV@AUVM.BITNET          SUB ANGLICAN Your Name

BAPTIST                       BAPTIST -- Open Baptist Mailing List
LISTSERV@UKCC.BITNET          SUB BAPTIST Your Name

BELIEF-L                      Personal Ideologies Discussion List
LISTSERV@BROWNVM.BITNET       SUB BELIEF-L Your Name

BRIDGE-L                      The Bridge Across Consciousness (Inter-faith)
LISTSERV@UCSBVM.BITNET        SUB BRIDGE-L Your Name

BUDDHA-L                      Buddhist Academic Discussion Forum
LISTSERV@ULKYVM.BITNET        SUB BUDDHA-L Your Name

BUDDHIST                      Forum on Indian and Buddhist Studies
LISTSERV@JPNTUVM0.BITNET      SUB BUDDHIST Your Name

CATHOLIC                      Free Catholic Mailing List
LISTSERV@AUVM.BITNET          SUB CATHOLIC Your Name

CHRISTIA                      Practical Christian Life
LISTSERV@ASUACAD.BITNET       SUB CHRISTIA Your Name

CJ-L                          Belief and Practices of Conservative Judaism
LISTSERV@ALBNYVM1.BITNET      SUB CJ-L Your Name

CONCHR-L                      Conservative Christian Discussion
LISTSERV@TEMPLEVM.BITNET      SUB CONCHR-L Your Name

CONTENTS                      Religious Studies Publications Journal
LISTSERV@UOTTAWA.BITNET       SUB CONTENTS Your Name

DIFTX-L                       Dialogue of Different Christianities
LISTSERV@YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU  SUB DIFTX-L Your Name

ECOTHEOL                      Ecological Theology
MAILBASE@UK.AC.MAILBASE       SUBSCRIBE ECOTHEOL Your Name

EOCHR-L                       Eastern Orthodox Christianity
LISTSERV@QUCDN.BITNET         SUB EOCHR-L Your Name

GLOBLX-L                      Global Christianity Discussion
LISTSERV@QUCDN.BITNET         SUB GLOBLX-L Your Name

HERMETICA                     Gnosticism, Western Esotericism
Hermes_owner@cofc.edu         Private, apply by personal e-mail application

HINDU-D                       Hindu Digest
LISTSERV@ARIZVM1.BITNET       SUB HINDU-D Your Name

INTERREL                      Interreligious Dialogue
LISTSERV@VM.TEMPLE.EDU        SUB INTERREL Your Name

ISLAMIAT                      Islamic Information and Issues Discussion
LISTSERV@SAKAAU03.BITNET      SUB ISLAMIAT Your Name

ISLAM-L                       History of Islam
LISTSERV@ULKYVM.BITNET        SUB ISLAM-L Your Name

ISTHMUS                       Roundtable Workgroup on Interfaith Dialogue
LISTSERV@YALEVM.CIT.YALE.EDU  SUB ISTHMUS Your Name (private list)

JSTUDY                        Jewish Studies
LISTSERV@UICVM.BITNET         SUB JSTUDY Your Name

JU-DA                         Judaism and Databases
LISTSERV@BARILVM.BITNET       SUB JU-DA Your Name

JUDAICA                       Judaic Studies Newsletter
LISTSERV@TAUNIVM.BITNET       SUB JUDAICA Your name

KRSNANET                      Krishna Consciouness Club
LISTSERV@ARIZVM1.BITNET       SUB KRSNANET Your Name

LITURGY                       Christian Liturgy Discussion
MAILBASE@MAILBASE.AC.UK       JOIN LITURGY Your Name

MERTON-L                      Research on Contemplative Life
LISTSERV@BYRD.MU.WVNET.EDU    SUB MERTON-L Your Name

MUSLIMS                       The Islamic Information & News Network
LISTSERV@ASUACAD.BITNET       SUB MUSLIMS Your name

MUSLIMS                       The Islamic Information & News Network
LISTSERV@PSUVM.BITNET         SUB MUSLIMS Your Name

OBJ-REL                       Objective Discussion of Religion
LISTSERV@EMUVM1.BITNET        SUB OBJ-REL Your Name

ORTHODOX                      Orthodox Christianity
LISTSERV@ARIZVM1.BITNET       SUB ORTHODOX Your name

QUAKER-L                      Quaker community, consensus, spirituality
LISTSERV@UIUCVMD.BITNET       SUB QUAKER-L Your Name

QUAKER-P                      Quaker peace and social justice
LISTSERV@UIUCVMD.BITNET       SUB QUAKER-P Your Name

RELIGCOM                      RELIGious COMmunications Forum
LISTSERV@UKCC.BITNET          SUB RELIGCOM Your Name

REVIEW-L                      CONTENTS Projects Full Text Review
LISTSERV@UOTTAWA.BITNET       SUB REVIEW-L Your Name

SDA-L                         Seventh-Day Adventists
LISTSERV@LLUVM.BITNET         SUB SDA-L Your Name

SHAKER                        Shakers, The United Society of Believers
LISTSERV@UKCC.BITNET          SUB SHAKER Your name

SSREL-L                       Scientific Study of Religion
LISTSERV@UTKVM1.BITNET        SUB SSREL-L Your Name

THEOSCI                       Science and Theology
MXSERV@ALPHA.AUGUSTANA.EDU    SUBSCRIBE THEOSCI Your name

UUS-L                         Unitarian Universalists
LISTSERV@UBVM.BITNET          SUB UUS-L Your Name

TAOISM-L                      Taoism
MAJORDOMO@COOMBS.ANU.EDU.AU   SUBSCRIBE TAOISM-L 
Your@email.address

TECHSPIRIT-L                  Technology and Spirituality
LISTSERV@WILLIAMS.EDU         SUBSCRIBE TECHSPIRIT-L Your Name

WISDOM-L                      The Wisdom Society
MAJORDOMO@RAIN.ORG            SUBSCRIBE WISDOM-L