Talk:Christianity/Bibliography

Any thoughts on how we are to build this?

It would seem that producing a bibliography for Christianity may be quite complex. I'm thinking it may be a good idea to point to specific article pages and attached bibliographies. For instance, books on the Reformation should probably be on a bibliography page about the Reformation, or on Protestantism generally. It may indeed be useful for someone in religious studies to edit the bibliography. --Tom Morris 08:58, 12 April 2008 (CDT)

we have a working bibliography now of large, sweeping books. Eventually we'll have a few thousand articles on subtopics; I hope each gets a bibliography. Richard Jensen 10:12, 12 April 2008 (CDT)

We should just give a brief bibliographic overview, and we should put a number limit on the total number of entries under each subhead (ten entries, at most). Each category needs to have a "go-to work"-- something fairly basic for folks just getting started, and about which we can say "a good general survey." More interested readers will dig further. Readers interested in a particular topic can check out the bibliography for that specific article, of course.

I have taken a stab at an outline for the bibliography, but I have not really started moving things around. For one, I only feel comfortable putting something in a bibliography if it is something I have personally used, and, for purposes of usability, I think it is important that the list be pretty manageable and navigable.

I appreciate the work you put into building out our bibliographies, Richard, but I worry that they get too large and overwhelming too quickly. I think there is a need for restraint, particularly when we're dealing with non-academic readers. (Maybe we want to have advanced bibliography pages, too. That'd be a thought...) Brian P. Long 10:18, 12 April 2008 (CDT)

the Christianity bibliography is very restrained right now and is aimed at the "general reader". A university student (CZ's target audience) taking a history course will need much more than this, but that is the purpose of the bibliographies on topics like the Reformation, Luther, Schleiermacher, Quakers, etc. etc. Richard Jensen 10:40, 12 April 2008 (CDT)