Editing Encyclopedia:Public domain resources (section)

=== Religion ===
* [http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm Internet Sacred Text Archive] Online archive containing numerous etexts of books in the public domain (in the US) on religion, mythology, folklore and related topics. Copyright status of the source edition (copytext) of each work is analyzed and relevant bibliographic data, including images of title pages and versos, provided.
* [http://www.esonet.org/Application/Biblioteca/Ebooks.aspx Biblioteca Elettronica Esoterica Esonet.org]  A comprehensive resource of free esoteric ebooks, articles, electronic papers about esoterism, religions, mythologies. The site is in Italian but are present ebooks also in Spanish, French, German, etc.

'''Christianity'''
* [[Christian biblical canons|Christian Bible]] – Most modern translations are still in copyright; out-of-copyright translations may be found at [[Wikisource:Bible]]:
** [[wikisource:Biblioþēce|Biblioþēce]] – Old English Bible; only partially complete, but with some modern translations as well
** [[wikisource:Bible (Wycliffe)|John Wycliffe's Translation]] (1380s)
** [[wikisource:Bible (Tyndale)|William Tyndale's Translation]] (1526)
** [[wikisource:Bible (Bishops')|Bishops' Translation]] (1568)
** [[wikisource:Bible (Douay-Rheims)|Douay-Rheims]] (1610)
*** [http://www.sacredbible.org/ Sacredbible.org] hosts several texts and scans of versions of the Douay-Rheims Bible.
** [[wikisource:Bible (Authorized Version)|King James Bible (Authorized Version)]] (1611)
** [[wikisource:Bible (King James)|King James Bible, Oxford Standard Text]] (1769)
** [[wikisource:Bible (American Standard)|American Standard]] (1901)
** [[wikisource:Bible (World English)|World English Translation]] (in progress since 1997)
** [[wikisource:Bible (Wikisource)|Wikisource Translation]] (in progress since 2006)
* [http://www.tertullian.org The Tertullian Project]: A collection of ancient and modern texts by and about the ancient Latin Christian writer [[Tertullian]] 
* [http://www.ccel.org/ Christian Classics Ethereal Library] – The [[Christian Classics Ethereal Library]] focuses on Christian texts, especially those from the [[Early Christianity|Early Christian]] period. Note their [http://www.ccel.org/about/copyright.html copyright statement]
*[https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/ The Catholic Encyclopedia] - The [[Catholic Encyclopedia]], published in 1913. 
* Several 19th-century out-of-copyright Christian [[Bible dictionary|biblical dictionaries]] – Note that these will need to be checked for accuracy (make sure statements have not been superseded by more recent academic work) and to keep a [[Wikipedia:Neutral point of view|neutral point of view]]
** ''[[Easton's Bible Dictionary]]'' (1897) – see [[Wikisource:Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)]].
** ''Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary'' – has been used as a source for [[list of Biblical names]]
** ''[[Smith's Bible Dictionary]]'' (original version 1863, expanded four-volume dictionary 1893) – a large amount of useful but dated text
'''Hindu'''
* [http://www.kamakoti.org/hindudharma/part5/chap1.htm The Basic Texts of Hinduism and Veda]
* [http://www.dlshq.org/download/download.htm#practicekarma Free Books on Yoga, Religion and Hindu Philosophy]
'''Jewish'''
*[[wikisource:Bible (Jewish Publication Society 1917)|Jewish Publication Society Bible translation]] (1917) – complete [[Tanakh]] on [[Wikisource]]
*[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/index.jsp The Jewish Encyclopedia] – ''[[The Jewish Encyclopedia]]'' (published between 1901 and 1906) contains over 15,000 articles (including many articles with illustrations) in 12 volumes on Jews and Judaism – It is now out-of-copyright and useful for the project, although dated (it does not cover any of the very significant events which occurred after the encyclopedia was published, such as the [[Holocaust]] and the creation and history of the [[Israel|State of Israel]])

'''Islam'''
* [http://cwis.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/ Three parallel texts of the Qur'an] – translations of the [[Qur'an]] hosted by the [[Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement]] at the [[University of Southern California]]

'''Occult'''
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=e8BZAAAAMAAJ Copy] on [[Google Books]], downloadable as PDF, of 1920 edition of [[Lewis Spence|Lewis Spence's]] ''[[An Encyclopaedia of Occultism]]''