From: 441495@acadvm1.uottawa.ca (MICHAEL STRANGELOVE)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian
Subject: Electric Mystic's Guide: VOLUME ONE Available
Date: 15 Oct 92 02:47:52 GMT

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The Religious Studies Publications Journal - CONTENTS

Volume 1.090             Release of Electric Mystic's Guide
ISSN 1188-5734                      Volume One -- First Edition
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The Electric Mystic's Guide (Volume 1 - First Edition)

NOW AVAILABLE VIA FTP AND LISTSERV

The first edition of Michael Strangelove's _The Electric
Mystic's Guide to the Internet: A Complete Bibliography of
Networked Electronic Documents Online Conferences, Serials,
Software and Archives Relevant to Religious Studies_, is now
available via FTP as a Postscript, WordPerfect and low ascii
file (also available via Listserv).  Volume One is  64 pages
in length.  The table of contents follows retrieval
instructions below.

Please note that Volume One replaces all other editions of the
Electric Mystic's Guide.  All older versions should be removed
from any FTP or Listserv fileservers. The previous files are
no longer available from the CONTENTS Project fileserver.  The
Guide is being released in three separate volumes.  Volumes
Two and Three will be released between October and December.

>>> Retrieval Information <<<

This bibliography is freely available via the international
academic networks (BITNET/Internet) from the CONTENTS Project
fileserver via FTP from the node panda1.uottawa.ca
(137.122.6.16) in the directory /pub/religion/ as the files

electric-mystics-guide-v1.ps
     postscript file

electric-mystics-guide-v1.ps.Z
     UNIX compressed postscript file

electric-mystics-guide-v1.zip
     zipped Wordperfect 5.1 text

electric-mystics-guide-v1.zip
     UNIX compressed zipped Wordperfect 5.1 text

electric-mystics-guide-v1.txt
     low ascii text

It is also available as a low ascii text via the CONTENTS
Project Listserv fileserver as MYSTICS V1-TXT from
Listserv@uottawa or Listserv@acadvm1.uottawa.ca

 Table of Contents -- VOLUME ONE


Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  1

     The Networks Covered in this Guide. . . . . . . . . . . .  3
     How to Retrieve Documents Listed in This
          Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
     Retrieving Documents via Listserv . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
     Retrieving Documents via FTP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
     Using BITFTP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
     Searching Listserv Logbooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
     A Note to Moderators, Authors and Maintainers
          of Networked Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9

Network Accessible Documents

1.   Anthropology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   11
2.   Articles and Prepublication Papers. . . . . . . . . . .   12
3.   Bible Study Aids and Software Programs. . . . . . . . .   16
4.   Bibliographies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   18
5.   Book Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   21
6.   Buddhism and Related Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   22
7.   Contemporary Jewry and Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . .   26
8.   The CONTENTS Project Miscellaneous Files. . . . . . . .   28
9.   Course Outlines, Seminar Syllabi and Glossaries . . . .   29
10.  Electronic Texts and Databases (CDROMS and
     Others) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   31
11.  IOUDAIOS Miscellaneous Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . .   33
12.  Islamic Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   34
13.  Journal Indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   37
14.  Lists in Review Supplements . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   38
15.  Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   39
16.  Online E-Mail Address Compilations. . . . . . . . . . .   40
17.  RELIGION Miscellaneous Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . .   41
18.  Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   42
19.  Sacred Texts (Networked Electronic Versions). . . . . .   45
20.  Software/Hardware Reviews and Information Files . . . .   48
21.  Software Programs for Religious Studies . . . . . . . .   50
22.  Thesis and Dissertations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   51
23.  Thesis and Dissertations -- Abstracts . . . . . . . . .   52

Index of Document Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   53
Index of Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   58
Index of Author's E-Mail Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

[Note that the Index of Document Titles and the Index of
Authors is not included in the low ascii version of the
Electric Mystic's Guide.]
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