Open AccessFirst Nations/Native Americans and Religion: Bibliographic Conversation and Recommendations
Author(s) -
David Schmersal,
Jane Elder
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
summary of proceedings/summary of proceedings. annual conference - american theological library association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2769-2027
pISSN - 0066-0868
DOI - 10.31046/proceedings.2019.1614
Subject(s) - spirituality , conversation , subject (documents) , faith , session (web analytics) , collection development , relation (database) , library science , sociology , history , political science , theology , world wide web , computer science , alternative medicine , medicine , philosophy , pathology , database , communication
A quick search using the subject “Indians of North America – Religion” in Bridwell Library’s catalog retrieved 130 results out of a collection of about 490,000 volumes. This suggests (a) The Library of Congress may want to consider revising some of its subject headings (but that is a topic for another time), (b) religious and spiritual practices among native North Americans/First Nations are not widely studied by our students. While there are certainly exceptions, likely this situation is not unique among theological libraries. This session represents an effort to rectify this by sharing and inviting colleagues to share recommendations of resources on spirituality and religious beliefs and practices of various native North American/First Nations groups and their relation to the faith traditions that are more broadly represented in our collections.