Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Introduction to Theological Libraries
Author: Publisher: Theological Librarian's Ha
ISBN: 9781949800067
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
The Christian Library
Author: The Christian Library
Author: Jonathan GoingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian biography
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
The Reference Librarian's Bible
Author: Steven W. SowardsPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Divided into dedicated categories about the subjects most meaningful to librarians, this valuable resource reviews 500 texts across all major fields. Drawing on their collective experience in reference services and sifting through nearly 30,000 reviews in ARBAonline, editors Steven Sowards, associate director for collection at Michigan State University Libraries, and Juneal Chenoweth, editor of American Reference Books Annual, curated this collection of titles, most of which have been published since 2000, to serve collections and reference librarians in academic and public libraries. From the Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences and Encyclopedia of the Civil War to the Encyclopedia of Physics, Encyclopedia of Insects, and Taylor's Encyclopedia of Garden Plants to the formidable Oxford English Dictionary, The Reference Librarian's Bible encompasses every subject imaginable and will be your first stop for choosing and evaluating your library's collections as well as for answering patrons' questions.
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1544
Book Description
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Author: Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1924
Book Description
Reader's Guide to American History
Author: Peter J. ParishPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134261896
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
There are so many books on so many aspects of the history of the United States, offering such a wide variety of interpretations, that students, teachers, scholars, and librarians often need help and advice on how to find what they want. The Reader's Guide to American History is designed to meet that need by adopting a new and constructive approach to the appreciation of this rich historiography. Each of the 600 entries on topics in political, social and economic history describes and evaluates some 6 to 12 books on the topic, providing guidance to the reader on everything from broad surveys and interpretive works to specialized monographs. The entries are devoted to events and individuals, as well as broader themes, and are written by a team of well over 200 contributors, all scholars of American history.
Subject Headings Used in the Dictionary Catalogues of the Library of Congress
Author: Library of Congress. Catalog DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Basilica-Chambers
Author: Albert HauckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Awash in a Sea of Faith
Author: Jon ButlerPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674056015
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Challenging the formidable tradition that places early New England Puritanism at the center of the American religious experience, Yale historian Jon Butler offers a new interpretation of three hundred years of religious and cultural development. Butler stresses the instability of religion in Europe where state churches battled dissenters, magic, and astonishingly low church participation. He charts the transfer of these difficulties to America, including the failure of Puritan religious models, and describes the surprising advance of religious commitment there between 1700 and 1865. Through the assertion of authority and coercion, a remarkable sacralization of the prerevolutionary countryside, advancing religious pluralism, the folklorization of magic, and an eclectic, syncretistic emphasis on supernatural interventionism, including miracles, America emerged after 1800 as an extraordinary spiritual hothouse that far eclipsed the Puritan achievement--even as secularism triumphed in Europe. Awash in a Sea of Faith ranges from popular piety to magic, from anxious revolutionary war chaplains to the cool rationalism of James Madison, from divining rods and seer stones to Anglican and Unitarian elites, and from Virginia Anglican occultists and Presbyterians raised from the dead to Jonathan Edwards, Joseph Smith, and Abraham Lincoln. Butler deftly comes to terms with conventional themes such as Puritanism, witchcraft, religion and revolution, revivalism, millenarianism, and Mormonism. His elucidation of Christianity's powerful role in shaping slavery and of a subsequent African spiritual "holocaust," with its ironic result in African Christianization, is an especially fresh and incisive account. Awash in a Sea of Faith reveals the proliferation of American religious expression--not its decline--and stresses the creative tensions between pulpit and pew across three hundred years of social maturation. Striking in its breadth and deeply rooted in primary sources, this seminal book recasts the landscape of American religious and cultural history.