Exhibits and Publications
Current Exhibits
- Charles and Joy Sheffey: Medical Missionaries to the Belgian Congo
Library Rotunda and the Day Missions Room - This exhibit at the Divinity Library provides a glimpse into the life and work of Charles and Joy Sheffey, American Methodist medical missionaries who served in Wembo Nyama, Belgian Congo between 1922 and 1946. Letters and writings of the Sheffeys record their reactions to the African culture and environment they encountered in the Congo. The collection is notable for a large number of artifacts, including a messenger drum, musical instruments, woven textiles and handicrafts, jewelry, and "witch doctor's magical gourd."
Online Versions of Past Exhibits
- Christian Responses to Charles Darwin, 1870-1900
- This exhibit commemorating the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth focuses on Christian responses to Darwin shortly after the publication of The Origin of Species.
- Communications from the Field: Missionary Postcards from Africa
- The images provided by missionary postcards provide a glimpse into the Christian missionary enterprise and its impact on society. They illustrate the customs, methods, and technology disseminated by the missionaries, provide depictions of indigenous life, and shed light on the culture of the missionary enterprise in the early 20th century.
- Early African American Missionaries
- Powerpoint presentation.
- From Psalm Book to Hymnal: Selections from the Lowell Mason Collection
- Excerpts from an exhibit at the Yale Divinity School Library held January 18-March 30, 2000.
- The Centennial of the Boxer Rebellion in China
- Photographs and documents from the collections of the Yale Divinity School Library that illustrate the impact of the Boxer Rebellion on the missionary movement in China.
- Victorian Missionary Periodicals
- Excerpts from an exhibit at the Yale Divinity School Library held September 15, 1999 - January 15, 2000.
Occasional Publications
- No. 20:
Capturing the Image: African Missionary Photography as Enslavement and Liberation
by T. Jack Thompson - No. 19:
St. Patrick and Bernard Mizeki: Missionary Saints and the Creation of Christian Communities
by Dana L. Robert - No. 18:
In Search of Moslems in China
: the Story of a Journey through Northwest China, April 30-July 2, 1936, by Claude L. Pickens, Jr. - No. 17:
Not the Bloom but the Root
: Conversion and its Consequences in Nineteenth-Century Protestant Missionary Discourse by Jonathan J. Bonk - No. 16: Mission Dilemmas : Bride Price, Minor Marriage, Concubinage, Infanticide, and Education of Women by Jessie G. Lutz
- No. 15: Bulldozers on the Quad: Yale Divinity School Library ten year report by Paul F. Stuehrenberg
- No. 14: Ts'ai Yung-ch'un's Life and Work: Fully Chinese and Fully Christian by Hugh Barbour
- No. 13: Christian Mission and Islamic Studies: Beyond Antithesis by David A. Kerr
- No. 12: Robert Lowry Calhoun as Historian of Doctrine by George A. Lindbeck; with an appendix on
Theology at Yale
(1998) - No. 11: Glimpses of Canton: the Diary of Elijah C. Bridgman, 1834-1838 (1998)
- No. 10: The American Revolution and the Roots of Mission in Africa: an essay on antislavery and antistructure by Lamin Sanneh. (1997)
- No. 9: American Missionary Eyewitnesses to the Nanking Massacre, 1937-1938 edited by Martha Lund Smalley ; preface by Tien- wei Wu; introduction by Beatrice S. Bartlett. (1997)
- No. 8: A History of the Expansion of Christianity Reconsidered: the Legacy of George E. Day by Andrew F. Walls. (1996)
- No. 7: Guide to Archives and Manuscript Collections at the Yale Divinity School Library compiled by Martha Lund Smalley. (1995, Revised edition 1998)
- No. 6: Women's Role in the History of the World Student Christian Federation, 1895-1945 by Johanna M. Selles. (1995)
- No. 5: Communications from the Field : Missionary Postcards from Africa edited by Martha Lund Smalley (1994, Revised edition 2006)
- No. 4: Eli Smith and the Arabic Bible by Margaret R. Leavy. (1993)
- No. 3: The Legacy of John R. Mott by Martha Lund Smalley. (1993)
- No. 2: The Day Missions Library Centennial Volume by Stephen L. Peterson, Paul F. Stuehrenberg, Martha Lund Smalley
- No. 1: A Library Worthy of the School : a History of the Yale Divinity School Library Collections by Paul F. Stuehrenberg. (Revised edition 1994)
For more information, please contact Martha.Smalley@yale.edu
