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Subject Headings | Encabezados

Use the following Library of Congress subject headings for 'Subject' searching in HopeCAT and databases such as ATLAReligion:

  • Children -- Religious life
  • Youth -- Religious life
  • Church work with children
  • Church work with youth

Books | Libros

  • OMG : a youth ministry handbook by Kenda Creasy Dean (General Editor); Dayle Gillespie Rounds; Roland D. Martinson; Amy Scott Vaughn; Don C. Richter
    ISBN: 9781426700088
    Publication Date: 2010-03-01
  • Learning Bridges by Jim Still-Pepper
    ISBN: 9780827221437
    Publication Date: 2011-04-01

Journals | Revistas

  • Family and community ministries
  • Group
  • The journal of youth ministry
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    From ATLASerials. Excludes 12 mo.
  • Youthworker

Websites | Sitios Web

  • YouthMinistry.com
  • YouthPastor.com
  • Center for First Third Ministry
    Here’s where you’ll find great conversation at the intersection of theology and ministry practice in the world of first third ministry -- ministry with children, youth, young adults and families. We’re interested in helping you shape the frameworks for those ministries, and want to connect you with other practioners who are thinking about that too.
  • Youth Specialties
  • InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA
  • Young Life
  • Youth Ministry (RCA)
  • Children and Worship
    Children and Worship provides one way of being in worship with children three to nine years of age. Each week hundreds of children who are part of the over three hundred RCA congregations that use the program experience rather than merely learn about worship. This program continues to be one of the most effective ways of nurturing childrens' faith and preparing them for worship with the whole congregation.

Journal Article Databases

  • Atla Religion Database with ATLASerials Plus
    This link opens in a new windowThe ATLA Religion Database® (ATLA RDB®) is the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion, with coverage from 1949 and retrospective indexing for several journal issues as far back as the nineteenth century. Journals are selected for inclusion according to their scholarly merit and scope. The fact that many publishers solicit the inclusion of their journals in ATLA RDB is indicative of the stature it has achieved in the community of religion scholars.
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  • AtlaSerials® (Atlas®) for Alum
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    ATLAS is an online collection of major religion and theology journals selected by leading religion scholars and theologians. Users can read articles or research the history of a topic from as early as 1908 to the present. Currently, researchers are able to use ATLAS as a search tool to retrieve images of the pages in more than one hundred fifty different journals.
  • Old Testament Abstracts
    This link opens in a new windowOld Testament Abstracts is a product of a partnership between ATLA and the Catholic Biblical Association. The database features indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament studies. Content from over 450 journals is covered. All abstracts are in English, regardless of the language of the original work. Topics covered include antiquities, archaeology, biblical theology, philology and much more. Coverage in the database dates back to 1978.
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  • New Testament Abstracts
    This link opens in a new windowNew Testament Abstracts Online is a product of a partnership between ATLA and Boston College. The database is an indispensable research and bibliographic aid for scholars, librarians, clergy and students of the New Testament and its historical milieu. The database contains more than 44,000 article abstracts, 1,200 review abstracts, 16,500 book abstracts, and 50 software abstracts. Each year an additional 2,000 articles from more than 500 periodicals in numerous languages are selected for inclusion. In addition, approximately 900 current books are also summarized annually. Article coverage in the database dates back to 1985.
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  • PsycINFO
    This link opens in a new windowThis database is published by the American Psychological Associations and provides comprehensive indexing and abstracts of the international psychological literature from the 1800s to the present.
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    This database is published by the American Psychological Associations and provides comprehensive indexing and abstracts of the international psychological literature from the 1800s to the present. Documents indexed include journals, articles, books, dissertations and more. 90% of the 3,000+ titles indexed in PsycINFO are peer-reviewed.
  • Sociological Abstracts
    This link opens in a new windowThis database abstracts and indexes the international literature of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
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    This database abstracts and indexes the international literature of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from thousands of serials publications and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers and working papers. Cited references are included for many journal articles.
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