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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
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- Center for First Third MinistryHere’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.
- Children and WorshipChildren 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 window The 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.
- Old Testament Abstracts This link opens in a new window Old 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.
- New Testament Abstracts This link opens in a new window New 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.
- PsycINFO This link opens in a new window 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.
- Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window This database abstracts and indexes the international literature of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
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