Teaching Issues and Religion

• Finding Common Ground: 1st Amendment Guide to Teaching Religion & Public Educ.
  
• Religious Holidays in US Public Schools.What is legal?
• Religion in Germany and German-American Religious Groups - The Church-German-Americans

Comprehensive Sites

• German Culture and Customs Mega-site
• NEW: German Holidays, Traditions and Cultural Oddities from FAQ for soc.culture.german
• German-American Events throughout the USA. Calendar by the German Corner
• Catholic Encyclopedia - definitions of holidays, feast days, religious concepts and personages
• The Liturgical Year
• A quick introduction to German holidays and related customs
• German Traditions from the Travel Through Germany site.
• Current news and events from Germany ByNet - many holiday items.
• Holidays info from About.com: German culture and Germany for Visitors, German language. The best of the web!

Holidays, Festivals and Events

• My site on Rites of Passage: baptism, marriage, funerals, etc.
• Proverbs and idioms tell much about a people. Many deal with the year's events and changes
• Germans from Russia Heritage Collection: customs, traditions, holidays, numerous articles.
  
• Two students compare German and American holidays.
  
• Uniquely American Holidays - with brief descriptions in English
• World Religions and their holidays from About.com. Outstanding!
  
• Jewish Holidays, Calendars and Resources
• Search the KIDLINK Multi-Cultural Calendar for descriptions of celebrations.
  
• Yahoo Culture and Holiday Guide Traditions, religions, cultures.
  
• Worldwide Holidays and Festivals Page.
  
• FOOD for all holidays from Mimi's Cyber Kitchen. Holidays and Seasonal Information with extensive links.
  
• Other Holidays and customs pages, especially Christmas and Hanukkah
• Search the large collections of the EWTN and NACS for religious aspects of the holidays.
  
• German Music for all the holidays.

Resources in German

• Bayerischer Rundfunk's Ländliche Feste Page: teaching materials, texts, images.
  
• Great resource: Der Interkulturelle Kalender. Christian and Jewish Holidays in Germany. Bauernregeln and seasons.
• Das Kirchenjahresuhr
• Discussion (in German) of Customs in Franconia, Bavaria, decline in modern times, meaning and purpose, forgotten customs...
• Was ist eigentlich...? Holidays defined by Bistum Aachen and AutobahnKirche Glossar.
  
• Das evangelische Kirchenjahr: Festtage, Bitt- und Gedenktage, Predigtsammlung, Heiligenkalender.
  
• Feste und Feiern im Christentum, Judentum, Islam. Auch Namenstage und Heilige
  
• Jahreskalender: Bauernregel, Wetter, Lustiges
  
• Feiertage in Deutschland 1997 and Yahoo Index on Society and Cultures: HOLIDAYS.
  
• Der kirchliche Jahreskreis and Ländliche Feste Page. Graphics.
  
• WildWeb im Wandel der Vier Jahreszeiten. All major holidays, in German.
  
• Brauchtum im Herbst und Winter. Schuelerarbeit.
  
• Search for Bauernregeln in German at Estnische Sprichwörter.
  
• Bauernregeln: weather and holidays in the past century. Swiss page.
  
• Namenstage - Heiligenkalender und die beliebtesten Namen.

Calendars and Seasons

• History of telling time, ancient calendars, clocks and more - fascinating online exhibits
• Calendars, Equinoxes, Solstices, Moon, Sunrise/set, stars, etc. from US Astronomical Applications Dept.
• Thorough discussion of historical calendars and their adoption
• Equinoxes and Solstices: Royal Observatory Greenwich
• International Calendars and Holidays
  
• Holidays Calendar and Info. Numerous links for each holiday. Currently unavailable.
  
• Variable Anlässe berechnen. Flexible, interactive.
  
• A pagan Calendar of Celebrations: highlights of the year and origins.
• The Wheel of the Year Calendar
  
• Stardancer's Wheel of the Year. Click on the dates around the calendar.
  
• Today's Calendar and Clock page, religious calendars, history, calendar and holiday pages.
  
• Festkalender der Welt.
• This Day in German History by Prof. Paul Schons.

Specific Regions

• Franken feiern Feste! Brauchtum im fränkischen Jahreskreis
  
• Brauchtum der Thueringer und Franken und Bräuche in Oberbayern
  
• Brauchtum in Tirol und im Appenzellerland.
  
• Ostfriesisches Brauchtum: website and exercises.
  
• Listing of folk holidays and events in Allgäu.
  
• Calendar of Festivals in Attendorn, Germany.

Miscellaneous

• Religion in Germany plus German-American Religious Groups, history, denominations, theology, many resources
• Send someone a German postcard
• Germanic Mythology and Folkore, early religion, creation myths
• More Germanic mythology and Norse mythology from U of Pittsburgh
• Languages and cultures of the Germanic North.
  
• Folklore, Myth and Legend : excellent collection of links.
  
• Germanic Myths, Legends and Sagas.
  
• The Germanic Heritage Page: pagan, medieval, Anglo-Saxon, texts, mythology, folklore.
  
• Myths and Legends from around the world.
  
• Encyclopedia Mythica. Mythology, folkore and legends. Searchable.
  
• Medieval Germany page from Georgetown U.
  
• Tree of Germanic Languages

  Art

• Massive collection of links to religious and holiday art
• Religious paintings: Web Gallery, CGFA Virtual Art Museum and Biblical/Spiritual Art Gallery
• Conduct your own searches for words and names.
  

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