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Clipart for World Religions, tools to help you be a modern-day Paul

27 February, 2011 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

There are many reasons why you might want to find clip art for religions other than Christianity, including to study and understand them or to do outreach. The Apostle Paul in Acts 17 carefully studied the pagan idols so that when he preached to the people he used what had learned about their religions as a bridge to share the good news of the true God and Savior Jesus. Below is how Paul did this and following are some websites of high quality clip art that you can use to reach the Athens in your world:

Acts 17:22 Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: “People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. 23For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship—and this is what I am going to proclaim to you.

24 “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. 25 And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. 26 From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. 27 God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. 28 ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’[b] As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’[c]

29 “Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by human design and skill. 30 In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. 31 For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.”

32 When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some of them sneered, but others said, “We want to hear you again on this subject.” 33 At that, Paul left the Council. 34 Some of the people became followers of Paul and believed. Among them was Dionysius, a member of the Areopagus, also a woman named Damaris, and a number of others.

Taking your cue from Paul, if you want to study the representations of  other faiths today, below are some sites that will help. Please enter any that you know about that I may have missed in the comment section below this article.

Good overall site to purchase high quality software

http://www.fotosearch.com

This site is listed in the categories below, but it is by far the highest quality site. The site has samples from many other sites, some of which are not widely advertised. You can buy the images individually and the site links to the collections the images come from. There are many beautiful, innovative and interesting images for the Christian faith in addition to a large variety of world religion images.

There are no free images listed and some are quite expensive, but the quality of many is quite high. Do take the opportunity to browse through it for ideas even if you don't purchase something.

JEWISH CLIPART COLLECTIONS

http://www.fotosearch.com/clip-art/jewish.html
Wonderful collections and images, links to complete collections.

http://www.jewish-clip-art.com/

Contemporary, informal style, some cost

http://www.jewishsoftware.com/products/jewish_clipart_84.asp

Very nice CD, a comment on it: "Jewish observance permeates the content of this disk, which will be welcomed by Jewish schools here and in the Diaspora that need artwork to decorate classes or newsletters, religious children who want to illustrate school reports, and synagogues that produce bulletins to their members."

ISLAMIC CLIPART COLLECTIONS

http://www.fotosearch.com/clip-art/islamic.html

Professional, quality images, priced per image, beautiful images. Also has links to more complete collections.

http://www.sakkal.com/IslamiClip1.html

Traditional calligraphic images

BUDDISM

http://www.fotosearch.com/clip-art/buddha.html

Beautiful collection, contemporary, professional, links to complete collections.

http://karenswhimsy.com/buddhist-statues.shtm

Really nice black and white drawings. Don't let website title mislead you, this site has many vintage images that are excellent in a number of categories, check it out.

World Religion Collections

The quality, type, and religions represented below varies tremendously, but many religions represented.

http://www.fotosearch.com/clip-art/world-religions.html
Clip art sets, high quality, that have images for a group of religions.

http://www.aperfectworld.org/religion.htm

http://vector-images.com/cd_contents/mythology.php

http://graphics.elysiumgates.com/cultural.html

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Please do add additional sites that you use for images for Christian or other religions in the comments below—thanks so much for sharing!

 

 

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