Apocryphal works    [gp2015026025]

BT Religious materials

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for works that are excluded from the sacred canon of a religion, denomination, sect, etc., e.g., the apocryphal gospels; the Tripiṭaka apocryphal works.

Example under Religious materials

Apologetic writings    [gp2015026027]

BT Religious materials

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for works that explain a religion, denomination, sect, etc., and defend it from external criticism.

Breviaries    [gp2015026078]

UF Divine Office (Breviaries)

UF Hours, Liturgy of the

UF Liturgy of the Hours

BT Liturgical books

Call documents    [gp2015026028]

BT Records (Documents)

BT Religious materials

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for official documents that outline the circumstances, mutual obligations, and terms of a minister's call to service.

Catechisms    [gp2015026029]

BT Instructional and educational works

BT Religious materials

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for works that provide comprehensive instruction on doctrines and are often structured in question-and-answer form.

Chirographa (Personal correspondence)    [gp2015026030]

UF Chirographi (Personal correspondence)

UF Chirographs (Personal correspondence)

UF Letters, Papal

UF Papal letters

BT Personal correspondence

BT Religious materials

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for the personal letters written by the Roman Catholic pope.

Christmas sermons    [gp2015026084]

BT Sermons

Church covenants    [gp2015026055]

UF Covenants, Church

BT Contracts

BT Religious materials

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for solemn agreements among members of a church to maintain its faith and discipline.

Church orders    [gp2015026054]

BT Administrative regulations

BT Religious materials

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for regulations and directions on church governance that are decreed according to ecclesiastical or scriptural authority.

Creeds    [gp2015026031]

UF Confessions of faith

UF Faith, Confessions of

BT Religious materials

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for concise authorized statements of religious doctrine within religions or denominations.

Devotional literature    [gp2015026057]

UF Devotional exercises

UF Devotions

UF Forty hours' devotions

UF Marian devotions

UF Spiritual exercises

BT Instructional and educational works

BT Religious materials

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for religious materials that are intended to be used as aids for private study, prayer, and reflection.

Funeral sermons    [gp2015026085]

BT Sermons

Hagiographies    [gp2015026032]

UF Hagiologies

BT Biographies

BT Religious materials

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for biographies of saints, religious figures, and deities that focus on their lives as exemplars of the faith. Calendars or lists of martyrs that may contain some biographical information are entered under Martyrologies.

Note under Martyrologies

Harmonies (Reference works)    [gp2015026034]

BT Reference works

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for works that list parallel texts or passages for the purpose of showing agreement among them.

Ijāzah    [gp2015026035]

BT Records (Documents)

BT Religious materials

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for the license of a Muslim scholar to teach one or more works, which may include a detailed record of the scholar's intellectual lineage.

Koans    [gp2015026036]

BT Religious materials

RT Meditations

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for paradoxes used in Zen Buddhism as instruments of meditation to encourage sudden intuitive enlightenment rather than dependence upon reason.

Lectionaries    [gp2015026038]

UF Evangelaries

UF Evangelistaries

BT Pericopes

RT Sacred works

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for collections of passages from sacred works that are arranged according to the liturgical calendar and are intended to be read during public worship.

Litanies    [gp2015026087]

BT Liturgical books

BT Prayers

Liturgical books    [gp2015026039]

UF Agenda (Liturgical books)

UF Altar books

UF Benedictionals

UF Collects (Prayers)

UF Communion liturgies

UF Eucharist, Liturgy of the

UF Liturgies and rituals

UF Liturgy of the Eucharist

UF Liturgy of the Lord's Supper

UF Lord's Supper, Liturgy of the

UF Menologion

UF Offertories

UF Ordinals (Liturgical books)

UF Responses (Liturgies)

UF Rituals and liturgies

UF Sacramentaries

UF Service books (Liturgical books)

BT Handbooks and manuals

BT Religious materials

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for prescribed forms of religious worship and ritual.

Mandalas    [gp2015026040]

BT Religious materials

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for geometric figures that represent the cosmos in Buddhism and Hinduism.

Martyrologies    [gp2015026033]

BT Registers (Lists)

BT Religious materials

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for calendars or lists of martyrs that may contain some biographical information. Biographies of saints, religious figures, and deities that focus on their lives as exemplars of the faith are entered under Hagiographies.

Note under Hagiographies

Mashyakhah    [gp2015026041]

UF Thabt

BT Registers (Lists)

BT Religious materials

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for listings of the names of the immediate teachers of Muslim scholars.

Meditations    [gp2015026056]

BT Devotional literature

RT Koans

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for thoughts on spiritual truths intended for use in meditation.

Monastic constitutions    [gp2015026042]

UF Customaries, Monastic

UF Monastic customaries

BT Constitutions

BT Religious materials

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for documents that order the activities and behavior of the members of religious communities.

Monastic rules    [gp2015026058]

UF Rules, Monastic

BT Administrative regulations

BT Religious materials

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for the codes of discipline and conduct prescribed by the founders of religious orders.

Myths    [gp2015026043]

UF Mythologies

BT Folk literature

BT Religious materials

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for traditional stories that ostensibly explain natural phenomena, beliefs, or practices, and are frequently associated with religious rites and beliefs.

Papal blessings    [gp2015026082]

UF Blessings, Papal

BT Papal documents

Papal documents    [gp2015026044]

UF Briefs, Papal

UF Bulls, Papal

UF Bullariums

UF Decretals

UF Motu proprio

UF Papal rescripts

UF Rescripts, Papal

BT Records (Documents)

BT Religious materials

Papal encyclicals    [gp2015026081]

UF Encyclicals, Papal

UF Letters, Papal

UF Papal letters

BT Papal documents

BT Pastoral letters and charges

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for formal pastoral letters written by the Roman Catholic pope for the entire Church.

Parashiyot ha-shavua    [gp2015026046]

UF Torah portions, Weekly

UF Weekly Torah portions

BT Excerpts

BT Religious materials

RT Sacred works

Pastoral letters and charges    [gp2015026047]

UF Pastoral charges and letters

BT Business correspondence

BT Religious materials

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for official letters by a bishop, pastor, moderator, or chairperson to the members of his or her diocese or congregation within some Christian traditions.

Pericopes    [gp2015026037]

BT Excerpts

RT Sacred works

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for passages from sacred works.

Pilgrimage guides    [gp2015026048]

BT Guidebooks

BT Religious materials

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for works that describe the location, objects of veneration, and devotional practices related to one or more religious sites.

Prayers    [gp2015026049]

UF Altar prayers

UF Bedtime prayers

UF Collects (Prayers)

UF Dead, Prayers for the

UF Grace before meals

UF Novenas

UF Pastoral prayers

UF Peace, Prayers for

UF Prayer books

UF Prayers for peace

UF Prayers for the dead

BT Religious materials

Prophecies    [gp2015026059]

UF Omens

BT Informational works

Psalms    [gp2015026079]

BT Religious poetry

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for sacred songs originally contained in the Book of Psalms. Collections of psalms arranged for devotional or liturgical use are entered under Psalters.

Note under Psalters

Psalters    [gp2015026080]

BT Devotional literature

BT Liturgical books

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for collections of psalms arranged for devotional or liturgical use. Sacred songs originally contained in the Book of Psalms are entered under Psalms.

Note under Psalms

Religious inventories    [gp2015026050]

UF Inventories, Religious

BT Catalogs

BT Religious materials

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for works that list and describe the permanent collections of books and/or objects belonging to a religious site or printing house.

Religious materials    [gp2015026026]

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for collections of religious materials that are composed of multiple genres and/or forms to which more specific headings such as Apocryphal works cannot be applied.

Rosaries (Prayer books)    [gp2015026083]

BT Devotional literature

BT Prayers

Sacred music    [gp2014027062]

BT Religious materials ADD FIELD

Sacred works    [gp2015026045]

UF Sacred books

UF Sacred scriptures

UF Scriptures

BT Religious materials

BT Parashiyot ha-shavua

BT Pericopes

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for works that are considered sacred by a religion or denomination.

Sermons    [gp2015026051]

UF Homilies

UF Postils

BT Discursive works

BT Religious materials

Service books (Music)    [gp2014027085]

BT Religious materials ADD FIELD

Spirit writings    [gp2015026052]

BT Discursive works

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for automatic writing said to have been produced under the influence of spirits.

Thanksgiving Day sermons    [gp2015026086]

BT Sermons

Tracts (Ephemera)    [gp2015026053]

UF Leaflets (Tracts)

UF Pamphlets (Tracts)

BT Ephemera

BT Instructional and educational works

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for pamphlets, leaflets, etc., that contain religious exhortations, doctrinal discussions, or proselytizing appeals, and that are often issued by religious or political groups.