Records of Religious and Benevolent Societies, Organizations, and Meetings
Scope and Contents
Record Group 34 consists of primarily printed material. This guide lists the organizations and conferences alphabetically by name, with dates and place of origin also noted.
The religious and benevolent societies and organizations represented in this collection generally fit into one or more of the following categories:
- Bible and tract societies
- Christian education/ministry
- Connecticut societies
- Conferences, conventions
- Ecumenical movements
- Protestant Episcopal agencies
- Related to Jews
- Related to Roman Catholicism
- Relief and charitable societies
- Sabbath observance
- Scholarly societies
- Sects, religious societies
- Societal reform
- Published in the United Kingdom
- Women's societies
Dates
- 1804-1987
Conditions Governing Access
The materials are open for research.
Arrangement
The societies and organizations are listed alphabetically:
Extent
26 Linear Feet (62 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Abstract
This collection contains publications of primarily American and British organizations, societies, conferences, and councils. The publications provide primary source documentation of organizations that focused on a wide variety of issues, ranging from sabbath observance to tract and Bible distribution to support of widows to religious education to ecumenical programs, etc.
Biographical / Historical
The publications in this collection date from the early 19th century to the 1980s.
- American Bible Society
- American Doctrinal Tract Society
- American Revision Committee
- American Sunday-School Union
- American Tract Society
- Bible -- Publication and distribution -- Societies, etc.
- British and Foreign Bible Society
- Brotherhood of the Kingdom
- Catholic Church
- Charities
- Christian education
- Church charities
- Church meetings
- Church societies
- Church work
- Clergy conferences
- Ecumenical movement
- Episcopal Church
- Federation of American Zionists
- Fifield, James W., 1899-1977
- Great Britain -- Religion
- Hibernian Bible Society (Dublin, Ireland)
- International relief
- Interseminary Movement
- Jews
- Learned institutions and societies
- Lee, Witness
- Local Church
- National Conference of Christians and Jews
- New England Tract Society
- Pamphlets
- Religious gatherings
- Sabbath
- Sects
- Social service
- Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain)
- Society for Promoting Due Observance of the Lord's Day
- Spiritual Mobilization (Organization)
- Theosophical Society (Chennai, India)
- Tract societies
- Unification Church
- Universal Christian Council for Life and Work
- Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society
- Woman's Christian Temperance Union
- Women -- Societies and clubs
- World Conference on Faith and Order
- Title
- Guide to the Records of Religious and Benevolent Societies, Organizations, and Meetings
- Author
- Compiled by Martha Lund Smalley
- Date
- 1987
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
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