Sources for Research: Missions and World Christianity
Websites & Online Reference Resources
Primary Sources
Websites & Online Reference Resources:
General
Online content:
- Internet Mission Photography Archive - photographs contributed by six mission archives
- ATLA Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative - includes missions-related maps, photographs, postcards, texts, statistics
- Basel Mission Picture Archive - photographs taken on the boundary between European and African and Asian cultures between 1850 and 1950
- Boston University Digital Research Archive, Christian Mission collection - digitized historical texts
- World Missionary Conference, 1910, Edinburgh - Volumes 1 - 9
- Missionary E-Texts Archives - an electronic repository of historical texts by, about and for missionaries
- Project Canterbury - Anglican history; includes digitized texts re. missions
- Human Relations Area Files / eHRAF Collection of Ethnography
- Project on Religion and Economic Change - data related to Protestant and Catholic missions
- Adherents.com - adherent statistics and religious geography citations
- Evangelists of Empire? Missionaries in Colonial History - online resources from University of Melbourne
Reference tools:
- Researching World Christianity: Doctoral Dissertations on Mission since 1900 - currently over 6046 dissertations listed in the database
- Missionary Periodicals Database - info re. periodicals on foreign missions published in Britain
- Cumulative Bibliography of the International Review of Missions (temporarily unavailable)
- World Christian Database - Center for the Study of Global Christianity, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
- Portals to the World (LC)
- Basic bibliography for world Christianity - Very brief list of core books for the study of world Christianity
- Bibliografia Misonal y Ecumenica - compiled by John Gorski
- Missionaries in Fiction - an informal listing of works of fiction that feature missionaries
Organizations/ directories:
- Churches in Mission and Evangelism Directory (WCC)
- Global Mapping International - gateway for evangelical missions information and websites
- International Association for the History of Religions
- International Association for Mission Studies
- International Conference on Computing and Missions
- Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization
- Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity - Calvin College
- Towards 2010 - Celebrating the centenary of Edinburgh 1910
- Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and Non-Western Christianity
North America
- Faith Communities Today - Hartford Seminary survey of U.S. congregations
- Maryknoll Missions
- Overseas Ministries Study Center
Africa
- The Dictionary of African Christian Biography - an OMSC project
- African Association for the Study of Religions
- African Religion - Wim van Binsbergen
- Centre Aequatoria: Centre de Recherches Culturelles Africanistes
- Whelan Research Academy, Owerri, Nigeria
Asia
- Centre for the Study of Christianity in Asia, Trinity Theological College, Singapore
- Christian Conference of Asia
- China:
- London Missionary Society Collection of Chinese books - digitized by National Library of Australia
- Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity - life stories of significant figures in Chinese Christianity
- Archives on the History of Christianity in China, Hong Kong Baptist University
- American China Missions: An Introductory Bibliography - ed. by Charles W. Hayford
- American Context of the China's Christian Colleges and Schools project
- Amity Foundation
- Ricci Roundtable on the History of Christianity in China - online database includes biographies, bibliographies, archives directory, etc.
- U.S. Catholic China Bureau
- Documentation related to Christianity from the Chinese government Local Gazetteers / description of project
- India:
- American Baptist Mission - Hong Kong
- Christianity in Taiwan - site of John Lai
- South Asia Missionary Archives Guide - A preliminary guide to archival collections relating to American Protestant missionary activity in South Asia
Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific
- New Zealand Presbyterian Church Foreign Missions Office
- Letters and Journals Relating to the Church Missionary Society Mission to Wellington Valley New South Wales,1830 - 40: A Critical Electronic Edition
- Micronesian Seminar
- Ecumenical Centre for Research, Education & Advocacy
- Restoration Movement in Australia - "This nineteenth-century unity and restitution effort by Barton W. Stone and Thomas and Alexander Campbell spawned several distinct religious groups: the Churches of Christ, the Christian Churches, and the Disciples of Christ."
Europe & the United Kingdom
- Mundus Database - gateway to missionary collections in the United Kingdom
- Berliner Missionswerk
- Bibliothèque du Défap-Service protestant de mission
- Centre for the Study of World Christianity - New College, University of Edinburgh
- Crowther Centre for Mission Education, CMS
- Franckesche Stiftungen zu Halle
- Harold Turner Collection at University of Birmingham - Research Unit For New Religions And Churches
- Henry Martyn Centre for the study of mission and world Christianity - University of Cambridge
- Methodist Missionary Society History Project
- Mission 21, Evangelisches Missionswerk Basel
- Oxford Centre for Missions Studies
- Sociedad de Misiones Africanas, S. M. A. (Spain)
Latin America
- Iglesia Catolica en Chile
- Handbook of Latin American Studies Online - searchable bibliography
Middle East
- Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Relations in the Middle East - from University of Pennsylvania
Primary Sources: Major mission and world Christianity archives and repositories
Websites of important archival and manuscript repositories:Addresses of repositories:
- North America:
- Yale Divinity School Library Special Collections
- Billy Graham Center Archives
- Episcopal Church Archives
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
- Missionary Research Library, Burke Library, Union Theological Seminary, New York
- Presbyterian Historical Society
- Southern Baptist Convention, International Mission Board
- United Methodist Church General Commission on Archives and History
- UK:
- Europe
- Bibliothèque du Défap-Service protestant de mission
- Franckesche Stiftungen zu Halle
- Mission 21, Evangelisches Missionswerk Basel
- World Council of Churches Archives
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BELGIUM//
BRAZIL//
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NORWAY//
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(If you know of other agencies that should be added to this list, please send the info to martha.smalley@yale.edu)
UNITED STATES List of denominational archives from Carol F. Swinehart
American Baptist Historical Society
http://www.baptisthistory.us/American Bible Society
1865 Broadway
New York, NY 10023
Phone: (212) 408-1204
http://www.americanbible.org/Billy Graham Center Archives
500 College Ave., 3rd floor
Wheaton, IL 60187-5593
Phone: (630) 752-5910
Fax: (630) 752- 5916
E-mail: bgcarc@wheaton.edu
http://www.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/archhp1.htmlCongregational/ UCC:
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
Houghton Library
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: (617) 495-2114
(also available on microfilm at YDSL and elsewhere)United Church of Christ Board for World Ministries
Phillip Schaff Library
555 W. James St.
Lancaster, PA 17603
Phone: (717) 392-0654Christian and Missionary Alliance
PO Box 35000
Colorado Springs, CO 80935-3500
Phone: (719) 599-5999
http://www.cmalliance.org/whoweare/archives/index.jspDisciples of Christ Historical Society
1101 19th Ave. S
Nashville, TN 37212
Phone: (615) 327-1444
http://www.discipleshistory.org/Episcopal Church
Box 2247
Austin, TX 78768
Archivist: Mark J. Duffy
Phone: (512) 472-6816
http://www.episcopalarchives.org/Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
8765 W. Higgins Rd.
Chicago, IL 60631-4198
Contact: Elisabeth Wittman
Phone: (312) 380-2818
http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/History/ELCA-Archives.aspxMethodist:
United Methodist Church General Commission on Archives and History
36 Madison Ave.
Box 137 Madison, NJ 07940
Contact: Dale Patterson
Phone: (201) 408-3189
http://www.gcah.orgMissionary Research Library
The Burke Library
Union Theological Seminary
3041 Broadway at 121st Street
New York, NY 10027
Contact: Michael Boddy
Phone: (212) 280-1500
Email: burke@libraries.cul.columbia.edu
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/burke/archives/mrl.htmlPresbyterian:
Presbyterian Historical Society
425 Lombard St.
Philadelphia, PA 19147
refdesk@history.pcusa.org
Phone: (215) 627-1852
http://www.history.pcusa.org
Database Index to Foreign Missionary PersonnelPresbyterian Church USA Department of History
Box 849
Montreat, NC 28757
Phone: (704) 669-7061Southern Baptist Convention, International Mission Board
3806 Monument Ave
P. O. Box 6767
Richmond, VA 23230-0767
Archives and Records Service web site: http://archives.imb.org/Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives
901 Commerce St., Ste. 400
Nashville, TN 37203-3630
Phone (615) 244-0344
http://www.sbhla.org/info.htmYale Divinity School Library Special Collections
409 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Contact: Martha Smalley
Phone: (203) 432-6374
Special Collections Website, including online guide to holdingsYMCA Archives
318 Andersen Library
222 21st Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: (612) 625-3445
http://special.lib.umn.edu/ymca/BRITAIN This is a brief listing of the larger British agencies. For more information about British missionary society archives see "Archival Sources in Britain for the Study of Mission History: An Outline Guide and Select bibliography" by Rosemary E. Seton, in the International Bulletin of Missionary Research April 1994.
Baptist Missionary Society
Angus Library
Regent's Park College
Pusey Street
Oxford OX1 2LB
Phone: 44 1865 59887
(Available in microfilm at YDSL)British and Foreign Bible Society
Archives housed at Cambridge University Library
Access through:
The Senior Information Officer/Archivist
British & Foreign Bible Society
Stonehill Green
Westlea
Swindon SN5 7DGCentre for the Study of World Christianity
University of Edinburgh
Faculty of Divinity
New College
Mound Place
Edinburgh EH1 2LX Scotland
Phone: 44 131 6 508952
Fax: 44 131 6 507972
http://www.div.ed.ac.uk/research_worldchristChurch Missionary Society
Crowther Centre for Mission Education
Watlington Road
Oxford OX4 6BZ
and
University of Birmingham Library
PO Box 363
Birmingham B15 B2TT
Phone: 44 121 414 5838
http://www.cms-uk.org/Resources/CrowtherCentre/Archives/tabid/194/Default.aspxChurch of Scotland
National Library of Scotland
Department of Manuscripts
George IV Bridge
Edinburgh EH1 1EW
Phone: 44 131 226 4531
http://www.nls.uk/ .Lambeth Palace Library
The Librarian,
Lambeth Palace Library,
London. SE1 7JU
Tel: + 44 (0)20 7898 1400
Fax: + 44 (0)20 7928 7932
E-mail: lpl.staff@c-of-e.org.uk
http://www.lambethpalacelibrary.org/Quaker Peace and Service/ Friends Foreign Mission Association
Friends House
Euston Road
London NW1 2BJ
Phone: 44 171 387 3601Regions Beyond Missionary Union
Centre for the Study of World Christianity
The Mound
New College
Edinburgh EH1 2LU
Phone: 44 131 6 508952United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel/ SPGFP
Rhodes House Library
South Parks Road
Oxford OX9 3BG
Phone: 44 186 5 270909University of Birmingham
Selly Oak Campus
Harold Turner Collection - Research Unit For New Religions And Churches
http://www.library.bham.ac.uk/searching/guides/g18haroldturner.pdfBELGIUM Archives de la province belge méridionale de la Compagnie de Jésus
Rue Andre Faucille, 6
B-1150 Bruxelles
tel.: 02/762.08.24
fax.: 02/772.45.10BRAZIL Igreja Evangelica Fluminense, (Congregational archives) Rua Camerino, 102.
20080-000
Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Brasil.
Librarian: Sra Esther Marques MonteiroCEHILA (=Latin American Church Historians, includes Roman Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox) Rua Prof Sebastiao Soares de Faria, 57 - 6o andar
10317-010
Sao Paulo, SP, Brasil
President: Jose Oscar BeozzoCANADA Archives of the Jesuits of Upper Canada 15 St. Mary Street
Toronto, ON
M4Y 2R5
Archivist:R.F. Pat Boyle, sj
tel.: 416-922-5474
fax.: 416-922-2898Archives de la Compagnie de Jésus, province du Canada français
C.P. 130, Saint-Jerome
Saint-Jerome, QC
J7Z 5T8
Archivist: Mlle Isabelle Contant
tel.: 514-438-3593
fax.: 514-438-6617
email: archives.jesuites.st-jer@qc.aira.comUnited Church of Canada Archives
http://www.united-church.ca/local/archives/onCHINA Library, The Three-Self Church
We have received word that these materials were sent to Hua Tung Theological College and are not accessible at this time.
169 Yuen Ming Yuan Road
Shanghai
Librarian: Tien Wen ZaiHolds Chinese and English materials relating to history of Christianity in China and in Shanghai in particular.Shanghai Municipal Archives
326 Xian Xia Road
Shanghai
Deputy director: Shi Mei DingIncludes materials about the history of Christian missions in ShanghaiFRANCE Archives Française de la Compagnie de Jésus
15, rue Raymond Marcheron
92170 Vanves
Archivist: Reverend Pere BonfilsArchives des Missions Étrangères
128, rue de bac
75341 Paris
Archivist: Georges MoussayBibliothèque Asiatique (library of printed materials related to Société des Missions Étrangères de Paris)
28, rue de Babylone
75007 Paris
Phone: (33 1) 4439 1040
Fax (33 1) 4222 0191
Librarian: Annie SalavertBibliothèque du Défap-Service protestant de mission
102, boulevard Arago
75014 PARIS
01 42 34 55 55
01 56 24 15 30 (fax)
defap.biblio@protestants.orgCentre de Documentation et d'Information Missionaire
5, rue Monsieur,
75007 Paris
tél: (33-1) 53 69 17 40
Fax: (33-1) 47 34 26 63
NORWAY Norwegian Missionary Society Archive
Misjonshøgskolen
Misjonsveien 34
4024 Stavanger
Norway
http://www.mhs.no/arkiv/category_31.shtmlPERU CEMAA (Centro Evangelico de la Misologia Andina y Amazonica)
Apartado 24,
Lima 43, Peru, S. America.
Contact tparedes@amauta.rcp.net.pe
Sunday, December 13, 2009
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