Suggestions for Further Activities

If you have been stimulated by The Glastonbury Tales either to find out more about Glastonbury itself or studying religions today, why not:

Visit Glastonbury
The Glastonbury Visitors Guide website has information about travel, accommodation and an events diary »

Read more about Glastonbury

There are many books about Glastonbury, written from a variety of spiritual standpoints. For an introduction to Glastonbury's history, and the growth of Glastonbury as a centre of alternative spirituality from the nineteenth century to the present day, you might like to consult the following:

• Carley, James P. 1996. Glastonbury Abbey: The Holy House at the head of the Moors Adventurous. (Glastonbury: Gothic Image Publications)
• Benham, Patrick. 1993. The Avalonians (Glastonbury; Gothic Image Publications)
• Bowman, M. 2000. “More of the same?: Christianity, Vernacular Religion and Alternative Spirituality in Glastonbury,” in Beyond New Age: Exploring Alternative Spirituality, Steven Sutcliffe and Marion Bowman, eds. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press)

Find out more about religion on the internet

• A list of useful websites covering aspects of Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam has been specially compiled for students on the Introducing Religions course
• MultiFaithNet is a 'research, learning, information and dialogue tool' to help you access the vast and growing amounts of internet material on religion.
• The Open University course Religion Today investigates how the internet is used in the service of religion.

Read a good general introduction to the religions of the world
Gwilym Beckerlegge (ed.)The World Religions Reader, Routledge, 2000 520 pages; ISBN: 0415247497 should be available from libraries and bookshops.

Consider an Open University course in religious studies
Follow this link for more information »