Includes links of interest the State of Illinois regarding religion and spirituality.
Religion is a social phenomenon involving systems of shared practices, views, symbols, and moral values.
Spirituality is a personal relationship and communication with the Divine or the Ground of Being, with or without the direct influence of any organization or a set of organizationally imposed views. Please see the Society: Religion and Spirituality category FAQ for more detail on the category.
This category includes @links to the various 'all-in-one' categories for various regionalized (to the Illinois-level) religious and spiritual resources.
Includes links to categories within the ODP Directory that serve as a state-wide listing for a particular segment of Christianity.
Please do NOT submit local churches or parishes to this category. Please re-direct these submissions to the proper locality or its local ''Society and Culture'' category, if one exists.
Includes links to Illinois-based sites related to New Age.
New Age is a term given to the Acquarius-age. The tricky bit is that it is unknown when this age started.
In practice the term New Age is used for spiritual literature, courses and terminology that have become known after the 1950's. The roots of many of these philosophies and practices predate that, but information on them is found in their respective categories