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STATED PURPOSE OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHY

The bibliography is for the compilation of items recommended for teaching and supervisory purposes.

Items submitted may be works the member actually uses or has recently used in courses, or works that he or she recommends for such use. Listing a work for use in courses, seminars, and supervisory programs does not imply agreement with its contents. Items need not be of recent publication and need not currently be in print, but they must be of recognized academic or professional quality appropriate for use in these settings.

ORGANIZATION OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHY

I. Bibliography with five categories:

A. Introductory and General Survey Texts in Pastoral Theology

B. Other Texts Recommended for Classroom and Supervisory Use (books, chapters in books, and journal articles)

C. Background Works Not Normally Assigned to Students (books, chapters in books, and journal articles)

D. Audio-Visual Resources

E. Computer Resources (compact discs and websites)

II. Member Comments (accessible by mouse click from individual bibliographic items):

Every item in the bibliography has a place where a user can click to open a window of comments that Society members have submitted pertaining to that item. This feature replaces the use of annotation in the bibliography itself, and enables the user to read responses and evaluations from a variety of Society members for any particular item.

GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION OF ENTRIES AND COMMENTS

All members in good standing (with dues paid through the previous year) are invited to submit entries and/or comments in any number at any time to the Societys bibliographer. However, members are requested not to "dump" large bibliographies indiscriminately, or to "flood" the bibliography with weak, minor or trivial entries.

Items for requested submission should qualify as printed texts or audiovisual or electronic resources that members wish to call to each other's attention as worthy of consideration for use in seminary courses and graduate seminars in pastoral theology and related fields, and in clinical supervisory programs in pastoral care and counseling. The term "pastoral theology" is assumed to have the meaning given to it in the mission statements of the Society and the Journal.

The Steering Committee is tentatively proposing that items remain on the bibliography a minimum of five years, and that any item not resubmitted during that time be reviewed for possible discontinuance. Items dropped from the list can always be resubmitted by their original sponsors or by others.

In order to reduce unnecessary work for the Society's bibliographer, it will be the responsibility of members making submissions to see that their entries are complete and in proper form. Any entry that is incomplete or not in proper form will be returned for correction or revision. If the submission falls outside the stated purpose of the bibliography (see above) or beneath the Society's standards of academic and professional quality, the bibliographer will be in contact with you about the appropriateness of the submission. In extreme cases, the bibliographer may deny the inclusion of items that manifestly and seriously violate these standards.

SPECIFIC GUIDELINES

1. All entries must be submitted electronically, in MS Word only, to the Society's bibliographer, Kathryn Lyndes, at llarata@yahoo.com. No hardcopy will be accepted.
2. Each item submitted must include an indication of which of the bibliography's categories (above) it should be listed under. Please choose only one category, unless the work is exceptionally versatile and merits multiple listings.
3. Entries must conform to the style adopted by the Journal of Pastoral Theology which is the Chicago Manual of Style for the Humanities. Note that author first names need to be written in full when they are given in the source itself, and not left as initials, and that the titles of journals are also written in full. See section below for examples of entries.
4. All annotation, with the exception of audio-visual items, will be in the form of Member Comments accessible through a mouse-click window attached to each item in the bibliography. Member Comments may be submitted with bibliographic entries, or at a later time, or by any member of the Society for any bibliographic entry. They must indicate clearly to which bibliographic item they refer, and must be limited to 75 words written in standard, proper prose appropriate to an academic and professional society. Comments may be descriptive, evaluative, or both.
5. Since audio-visual titles and website names are not always descriptive, annotations, limited to 50 words, attached directly to the bibliographic entry, indicate something about the item that is thought to be helpful to persons considering it for teaching purposes (fictitious example: a film titled "Tough Times" annotated as "grief in a three generation family with multiple conflicts and problems"). Audio-visual entries may also have Member Comments accessible by mouse click in addition to the 50-word annotation appearing in the bibliography proper.

Please refer to the Memo of Understanding if you require more information about the bibliography's principles and procedures. If you are in need of another copy, please contact the Society's bibliographer, Kathryn Lyndes, at llarata@yahoo.com, with your request.

EXAMPLES OF STYLE AND FORM OF BIBLIOGRAPHIC ENTRIES

The Society Bibliography will follow the style adopted by the Journal of Pastoral Theology, which is the Chicago Manual of Style for the Humanities.

The great variety of non-print materials like audio-visual materials and website materials and the lack of a consensus today about their form in bibliographic citations makes adaptations of the Chicago Manual of Style necessary. Persons submitting non-print items are asked to approximate the forms shown below and use good sense for the rest. The Society Bibliographer will edit non-print materials as necessary to achieve a consistent style.

Note that audio-visual items may have annotation of up to 50 words. Also, website entries require the date of the citation (i.e., the date when the person submitting it last looked it up) because web pages change and come and go over time.

Examples:

Single-author Book

Couture, Pamela. Blessed Are the Poor? Women's Poverty, Family Policy, and Practical Theology. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1991.

Multiple-author Book

Woodward, James, and Stephen Pattison, eds. John Patton, consult. ed. The Blackwell Reader in Pastoral and Practical Theology. Malden, Massachusetts, and Oxford, United Kingdom, 2000.

Chapter in a Book

Miller-McLemore, Bonnie J. "The Subject and Practice of Pastoral Theology as a Practical Theological Discipline: Pushing Past the Nagging Identity Crisis to the Poetics of Resistance." In Liberating Faith Practices: Feminist Practical Theologies in Context. Denise M. Ackermann and Riet Bons-Storm, eds. Leuven: Peeters, 1998, 175-198.

Journal Article

Graham, Larry Kent. "Prophetic Pastoral Caretaking: A Psychosystemic Approach to Symptoms." The Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 8.1, 1989: 49-60.

Audio-Visual Resources (with annotations)

Marty, Martin. Creativity and Immanence. Lecture given to "Laity Communications" conference, Kerrville, TX, Feb. 17-20, 1978. Los Angeles, CA: North American Congress of the Laity, 1978. Audio cassette, 40 minutes.

De Vries, Robert C., and Zonnebelt-Smeenge, Susan J. Ministering to the Widowed. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Calvin Theological Seminary, 1999. Four 20-minute videotapes with video discussion guide. "The video is designed as a training tape for pastors, elders, deacons, lay pastoral care workers, chaplains, seminarians, and others interested in a supportive ministry to the bereaved" (from the cover).

An Incident in Tiananmen Square. San Francisco: Gate of Heaven Films, 1990. 16mm, 25 min., color.

The Greek and Roman World. Chicago: Society for Visual Education, 1977. Filmstrip.

Computer Resources: Compact Disks and Internet Websites

Dictionary of Pastoral Care and Counseling, Electronic Version. Rodney J. Hunter, gen. ed. Nashville: Abingdon, 1995. Compact disk.

The American Association of Pastoral Counselors. Website [cited 12 October 2000]. <www.aapc.org>

van den Blink, A.J., "Transformation and Renewal" [also "Renewal and Transformation"]. Address given to the annual conference of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors, Williamsburg, VA, April 13, 2000. Website [cited 12 October 2000]. <www.aapc.org/vandenblink2000.htm>

Asquith, Glenn H., Jr. "Boisen's Method of Theological Inquiry." The Oates Journal. Louisville, KY, 1998-2000. Website [cited 12 October 2000]. Accessible by subscription to journal; password required. <www.oates.org/journal/title.shtml>

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