Internet Sacred Text Archive Explained

Internet Sacred Text Archive
Commercial:No
Type:Digital library
Registration:None
Owner:John Bruno Hare
Author:John Bruno Hare
Launch Date:March 9, 1999

The Internet Sacred Text Archive (ISTA) is a Santa Cruz, California-based website dedicated to the preservation of electronic public domain religious texts.

History

The website was first opened to the public on March 9, 1999, by John Bruno Hare (1955–2010), in Santa Cruz, California.[1] [2] Hare started building the website from his home in the late 1990s, as "an intellectual challenge". At the time, he was working as a software engineer with a dot-com company, and started by scanning over 1,000 public domain books on religion, folklore and mythology.[3] [4] The reason for its founding was the promotion of religious tolerance through knowledge.[5] [6] Its texts are organized into 77 different categories. The maintenance costs for the website—which received anywhere from five hundred thousand to two million visits a day—are funded by sales of the website on DVD, CD-ROM, or USB flash drive for monetary donations.

Contents

The Internet Sacred Text Archive lists three general links, World Religions, Traditions, and Mysteries. The first leads to the texts of the Abrahamic religions, as well as secondary sources describing them. The second leads to indigenous religions, including transcriptions of oral myths. The third leads to Nostradamus's writings, descriptions of Atlantis, and pagan texts. The main page has a site map that is organized alphabetically.[7]

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Hare . John Bruno . About Sacred-Texts . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20061108010956/http://www.sacred-texts.com/about.htm . 2006-11-08 . Internet Sacred Text Archive . 939385628.
  2. Book: Sabharwal, Arjun . Digital Humanities and Material Religion: An Introduction . 2022-04-04 . De Gruyter . 978-3-11-060875-5 . Clark . Emily Suzanne . Introductions to Digital Humanities – Religion . 6 . Berlin . 71–72 . Digital Scriptures, Material Religion, and the Digital Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Framework for Curating Digitized Sacred Texts Online . 10.1515/9783110608755-004 . 1285775408 . Mc Bride Lindsey . Rachel.
  3. News: Napoli . Lisa . November 25, 2004 . Sacred Pages . . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20081210024046/http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/25/technology/circuits/25diar.html . December 10, 2008 . 0362-4331.
  4. News: Turner . Ramona . 2009-08-11 . Online Religious Book Publisher Seeks Growth . en-US . Santa Cruz Sentinel . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20160623184443/http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/general-news/20090811/online-religious-book-publisher-seeks-growth . 2016-06-23 . 1531-0817.
  5. Book: Kent-Drury, Roxanne M. . Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in World Literature . 2005 . Libraries Unlimited . 978-0-313-32009-5 . Libraries Unlimited Professional Guides in School Librarianship . Westport, Connecticut . 41–43 . Religion and Folklore . 717114746.
  6. News: Jacobs . Mary A. . 2003-05-29 . On the Web . 6 . The Record . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220621025003/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/104138278/on-the-web/ . 2022-06-21 . Newspapers.com.
  7. Roberts . Joni . Drost . Carol . Valentine . Barbara . Case . Susan B. . Jobnson . Wendell . February 2002 . Internet Reviews . live . College & Research Libraries News . en-US . 63 . 2 . 132–133 . 10.5860/crln.63.2.132 . 0099-0086 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210620081543/https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/article/view/22520 . 2021-06-20. free .

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