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Useful sources on North American Christian religious denominations (on course reserve):

Handy, Robert T. A History of the Churches in the United States and Canada. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.

Harvey, Paul, and Philip Goff. The Columbia Documentary History of Religion in America since 1945. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.

Noll, Mark A. A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada. Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans, 1992.

Piepkorn, Arthur Carl. Profiles in Belief: The Religious Bodies of the United States and Canada. 1st ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1977.

Useful sources on Buddhism in the United States (on course reserve):

Fields, Rick. How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America. 3rd ed. Boston, Mass.: Shambhala Publications, 1992.

Prebish, Charles S., and Kenneth K. Tanaka. The Faces of Buddhism in America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Seager, Richard Hughes. Buddhism in America. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.

A variety of reference works, including dictionaries and encyclopedias on Buddhism and Christianity, can be found here.

Useful Internet links for specific communities:

Shambhala Center:
http://www.shambhala.org/centers/#city
http://www.burlingtonshambhalactr.org/

Karme Choling:
http://www.karmecholing.org/

Catholic Center at UVM:
http://www.vermontparishes.org/parishes/?church=14
http://homepages.together.net/~cathuvm/

Christ Church Presbyterian:
http://www.together.net/~ccp/

UVM Mindfulness Practice Center:
http://www.uvm.edu/~dos/chw/mindfulness.html
http://www.uvm.edu/~dos/chw/mindfulnessgroups.html

Drepung Gomang community (sand mandala):
http://www.gomang.org/
http://www.gomang.org/mandala.html
http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/online/mandala/

Other useful Internet sources:

Encyclopedia of Religion

Bibliography on American Buddhism:
http://www.globalbuddhism.org/bib-ambu.htm

Harvard University Pluralism Project:
http://www.pluralism.org/resources/tradition/index.php
http://www.pluralism.org/weblinks/weblink_direct.php?tradition=Christian
http://www.pluralism.org/resources/biblio/as-am_buddhism.php

University of Virginia's Religious Movement Web site:
http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/profiles/listalpha.htm#f

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