Talk:Christian library

renaming article
The article "Theological libraries and librarianship" deals exclusively with Christian libraries, so its name should be "Christian libraries and librarianship" or simply "Christian libraries". DGtal (talk) 12:03, 17 July 2011 (UTC)


 * The article may currently deal with exclusively Christian institutions, but it seems the correct response wasn't to move but to expand to include general theological libraries and libraries for other religions. And a lot of theological libraries may be housed within Christian or Christian-leaning universities or in Christian seminaries but are not necessarily exclusively "Christian libraries". To give an example: I studied at Heythrop College, a Catholic college with one of the best theological libraries in the country, and it obviously contains a lot of books on Christianity and Catholicism, but it also contains material to serve a community of scholars who are interested in and practice dialogue with other religions. This is quite important as they require theological students to take a course in non-Christian comparative religion, and offer modules on Judaism, Jewish-Christian relations, Islam, Christian-Muslim relations, Hinduism, Buddhism and also have people researching on the theology of interreligious dialogue and salvation etc.
 * Having the article specifically focus on Christian libraries also has the problem that theological libraries refer to themselves as theological libraries - see, for instance, Association of British Theological and Philosophical Libraries, American Theological Library Association, Indian Theological Library Association and many more on Google. I'll get a third opinion, but I'd rather it be called "Theological libraries and librarianship" for the reasons of both inclusiveness and WP:COMMONNAME (which recommends observing "the usage of major international organizations, major English-language media outlets, quality encyclopedias, geographic name servers, major scientific bodies and scientific journals").
 * I should have responded last week, obviously, but the first I saw was when the move happened on my watchlist. —Tom Morris (talk) 16:44, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I completely agree that an ideal wikipedia would have an extensive article on theological libraries as a whole and also articles on specific religious libraries. Before re-analyzing the current contents, lets clear up a few definitions. A "theological library" is a library devoted mainly to collecting theology relates literature. A "Christian library" (a term that exists in LCSH) or "Christian Theological library" is a library created by a Christian organisation and presumably pro-Christian (same would apply to a "Jewish Library" or a "Moslem library"). A synagogue library, church library or mosque library etc. is a library defined both by it's place (like School library) and it's area of collection (like Music library).
 * Currently we have an article which actually deals with 2 types of Christian related libraries. All those described in the beginning are "Christian libraries", the later libraries (from Renaissance and especially present-day collections) are, in part, libraries dealing with christendom and other religions from pure Academic (sometimes even atheist) POV. I have no clear joint name for Christian theological libraries and Christian-subject academic libraries. DGtal (talk) 11:56, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

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Non-Abrahamic Religious Libraries
What about other kinds of libraries besides those of the Abrahamic religions? -- Apisite (talk) 03:05, 4 November 2023 (UTC)


 * The article deals only with Christian libraries. Other religions, including other Abrahamic religions, should be dealt with separately. DGtal (talk) 16:33, 4 November 2023 (UTC)