North American Academy of Liturgy records, 1973-2013

Collection

Identifier: E003-2012-09

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Includes meeting minutes, annual meetings, attendance rosters, newsletters, roster history, correspondence, president’s report, visitor history, tasks and timetables, by-laws, hotel contracts, membership, records of nominations, officers history, procedures, job descriptions, accessibility guidelines, Catholic correspondence, Catholic membership.

Dates

1973 - 2013

Creator

North American Academy of Liturgy (Collector, Organization)

Conditions Governing Access:

This collection is open for research.

Historical Note:

The North American Academy of Liturgy (NAAL) is an ecumenical and inter-religious association of liturgical scholars who collaborate in research concerning public worship. NAAL meets annually in early January in cities throughout the United States and Canada. The academy’s more than twenty seminars provide the locus of our work and the heart of our meetings.

The Academy's origins date to December 1973, ten years after the promulgation of the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy of the Second Vatican Council, when more than fifty American experts in liturgy met at Scottsdale, Arizona. The ecumenical gathering, sponsored by the journal Theological Studies and organized by two Jesuits, Walter Burghardt and John Gallen, met to discuss the principal opportunities, needs, and problems of liturgical renewal.

In January 1975 the academy was founded at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, when a basic agreement was reached on goals, structures, and membership qualifications. The first official meeting was held in January 1976 at Loyola University in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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