[DCRM-L] capitalization of religious titles

[silvanan at mptek.net]

I saw that Deborah, but so few records seem to actually apply this rule
that it somehow feels
wrong to capitalize these words, even with "Pastor" actually used in the
example! It is also inconsistent
with how other titles are capitalized, which adds to the reluctance to
apply it.
Thanks for your input.

-S

  
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> Correction! I looked it up in an old (orange) edition of AACR2, and the Appendix reads the same; "the Pastor" was correct then, too. I wonder if catalogers unconsciously follow the spirit of A13.E3, for civil and military titles, without realizing that religious titles have their own rules. 
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> "the Reverend Michael O’Sullivan, Pastor of Saint Peter’s Church; the Pastor"
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> "Jimmy Carter, president of the United States; the president of the United States; the president" 
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> From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On Behalf Of Deborah J. Leslie
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> We follow Appendix A without question. I have a vague-ish memory that certain words that used to be designated as lowercase are now uppercase, things like "Minister" among them, which would account for the variation in practice.
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> Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S. | Head of Cataloging, Folger Shakespeare Library | 201 East Capitol St., S.E. | Washington, D.C. 20003
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> Subject: [DCRM-L] capitalization of religious titles
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> In transcription, do religious titles such as "pastor" and "minister",
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> get capitalized when *following* a name?
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> Rule A.13E2. (Religious titles) in AACR2 says they do, yet, in most
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> records I've looked at those titles are
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> almost never capitalized. So, I'd like to know what the general public
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> opinion/practice/experience of catalogers
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> Thanks
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> -Silvana