Did you know you can have your own personalized Theologika.net directory to store and record your online resources for theology and religious studies? How about sharing your recommendations with friends, colleagues, and students? Would you like to see what others are putting in their own directories?

You can do all these things by opening your own password protected directory at www.Theologika.net. It’s easy and it’s free.

All you have to do is to go to http://www.Theologika.net/search and click on the “Register” button in the upper right hand corner.

Fill out the simple form for your user name and password. (Your user name will be your directory name.) User names must not have any spaces in them. Also, most symbols don’t work in user names.

In a minute or so after you submit your registration, check your email for your registration link. Be sure to check your junk mail filter if you don’t find the message and link from Theologika in your in box.

Click on the link and you are ready to start tagging (adding items to your directory).

To share information with friends or colleagues, use the “Watchlist” feature.

Log into the site. There’ll be a heading, “My Watchlist Settings” in the left column. Click there and a screen will open that allows you to add the username of the other person to your watchlist. You will then be able to see all the items in that person’s directory. Have the other person do the same and you can share information.

Tagging basics:

To make it easy to tag items online for your directory, add your directory site to your list of favorites. If you’re using Firefox as your browser you can add simple shortcuts to your tool bar – the FAQs at the bottom of the search page explain how to do it. With Internet Explorer or Safari, follow the instructions in the FAQs to add a link to your Favorites list for your directory and for tagging (adding entries to your directory).

When you begin tagging, be sure the pop-up blocker on your browser is turned off. Another window will open so that you can “cut and paste” information from the site you want to tag into your directory listings. In order to tag an item, it must have a unique URL. Your personal directory listings will not appear within the main Theologika.net database unless you have been designated as a Trustee. (Trustees are persons with special education or experience that qualify them as experts in their particular field. If you believe you would qualify as a Trustee, please contact us.) 

Check the FAQs for more great information about how to tag items for your directory. Take a look at our blog post on searching and tagging for more help if you need it.

Exploring the rest of the site:

Theologika.net also includes a section of recommendations from trusted authorities. You can visit it from the home page of the website.

Whenever you want to get back to the main page of the website, just click on the word cloud at the top of the page. It’ll take you right back.

If you have any problems using our search/discovery engine, getting your directory established, or using the tagging function, drop us an email and we’ll contact you to help resolve them.

If you find something on the web that’s really great, and we don’t have it yet in Theologika.net, please drop us a note as well. We’ll take a look at it and see if it fits.

If you’d like information about something that we don’t have yet in the search/discovery engine, let us know. We’ll look for it or find someone who knows about the topic to get the information into the database.

We hope Theologika.net will be helpful in your work and spiritual journey. Looking forward to hearing from you.

Randy and Kathy