Dear visitors of the website of the European Christian Academy!

Here are collected useful internet resources that help in research work according to the profile of our university. This information is updated regularly.

Cultural history of Latvia:

• Latvijas Nacionālās bibliotēka / Latvian National Library
• Zudusī Latvija / Lost Latvia

Religions, mythology and theology:

• Reliģiju enciklopēdija (LV) / Encyclopedia of Religions
• Ortodoksās Baznīcas resursu krātuve (ENG) / Orthodox Church Resource Repository
• Mitoloģijas enciklopēdija (ENG) / Encyclopedia Mythica
  
• Studies of the Syrian Orthodox Church, useful articles on Syrian asceticism (ENG)
• Pr. Yakov Krotov’s library – a huge collection of Church Fathers, etc. a repository of texts of Orthodox theologians (RU)
• Bogoslov – scientific portal of theology (RU)
• Portal-Credo.ru – talk about religion truthfully (RU)
• Pagez.ru – texts of theological content (on matters of Orthodoxy) (RU)
• New Advent – Encyclopedia of the Roman Catholic Church. News, but most importantly – an exhaustive database of persons, events, theological views, etc. (ENG)

Caritas, Caritative Social Work:

• World Values Survey – Online Survey analysis website (Data-Archive), archive on values and value surveys
• Department of Orthodox Church Charity and Social Services – resources, manuals of Church’s social service
• The beginning of the social teaching of the Roman Catholic Church can be traced back to the end of the 19th century. Since then, Catholic popes have regularly devoted their attention to it. Links to required documents (ENG)
• Social teaching of the Roman Catholic Church (ENG)
• Agreement between the Republic of Latvia and the Holy See (LV)
• The position of the Roman Catholic Church in matters of spiritual and social life, a broad searcher (LV)
• A general description of caritas together with the seven deadly sins and the three heavenly virtues (in the Catholic sense, ENG)
• Publications and conference materials of SV Christian social workers (ENG). Read and think for yourself if it is suitable! (ENG)
• Sociology Essay and 5 Tips How to Write It  
• Writing Help for Academic Essays and Research Papers. IPL’s repository of 500,000+ essays across thousands of topics to help you finish your homework.

Sacred art, Iconography:

• A comprehensive alphabetical encyclopedia of the art of the Christian church (ENG)
• An excellent alphabetical index of iconography (RU)
• Over 5000 good images and virtual tours in Christian art (ENG)
• A great page with an outline of Orthodox icon theology, high quality images and links (RU)
• Theology and Iconography of the Eastern Orthodox Church (ENG)
• Terra Byzantica – Byzantine history, religion (BU)