Sources for Research: Missions and World Christianity
Websites & Online Reference Resources
Primary Sources
Websites & Online Reference Resources:
GeneralNorth America
- Adherents.com - adherent statistics and religious geography citations
- Churches in Evangelism and Mission Directory (WCC)
- Cumulative Bibliography of the International Review of Missions
- DeepSight Trust: an Initiative for Religion and Cultures
- Global Mapping International - gateway for evangelical missions information and websites.
- Human Relations Area Files
- International Association for Missions Studies
- International Conference on Computing and Missions
- Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization
- Missionary E-Texts Archives
- Missionary Periodicals Database
- Portals to the World (LC)
- Towards 2010 - Celebrating the centenary of Edinburgh 1910
- World Christian Database - Center for the Study of Global Christianity, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
- Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and Non-Western Christianity
Africa
- Billy Graham Center Archives
- Faith Communities Today - Hartford Seminary survey of U.S. congregations
- Maryknoll Missions
- Overseas Ministries Study Center
- African Religion - Wim van Binsbergen
- Centre Aequatoria: Centre de Recherches Culturelles Africanistes
- Christian Network Links for Africa
- The Dictionary of African Christian Biography
- Griqua Coinage - site re. coinage system devised for Griqua people of South Africa by London Missionary Society missionary
- Africa in German Mission Archives - an overview in English of some of the material on Africa available in the archives of certain mission societies in Germany
- Whelan Research Academy, Owerri, Nigeria
Asia
Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific
- Archives on the History of Christianity in China, Hong Kong Baptist University
- Centre for the Study of Christianity in Asia, Trinity Theological College, Singapore
- Christian Conference of Asia
- China:
- American China Missions: An Introductory Bibliography - ed. by Charles W. Hayford
- American Context of the China's Christian Colleges and Schools project
- Amity Foundation / Amity News Service - News of the China Christian Council
- Christianity in China Web Site - managed by Christian Leadership Exchange
- Ricci Roundtable on the History of Christianity in China - online database includes biographies, bibliographies, archives directory, etc.
- U.S. Catholic China Bureau
- Church of South India
- Church of North India
- American Baptist Mission - Hong Kong
- Protestantism in Thailand web site of Herb Swanson
Europe & the United Kingdom
- Biographical Directory of Anglican Clergy - "1,500 Anglican priests who served in New Zealand, Polynesia, and Melanesia are included in this directory. The compiler aims to include all the Anglican clergy from the first visit of Samuel Marsden in 1814. For privacy reasons, clergy ordained after 1926 are not included."
- 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."
Latin America
- Berliner Missionswerk
- Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World
- 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
- Methodist Missionary Society History Project
- Mission 21, Evangelisches Missionswerk Basel
- Basel Mission Picture Archive
- Mundus Database - gateway to missionary collections in the United Kingdom
- Sociedad de Misiones Africanas, S. M. A. (Spain)
- Iglesia Catolica en Chile
- Handbook of Latin American Studies Online - searchable bibliography
Primary Sources: Major mission and world Christianity archives and repositories
Websites of important archival and manuscript repositories:Addresses of repositories:
- Special Collections at the Yale Divinity School Library
- Billy Graham Center Archives
- Episcopal Church Archives
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
- Presbyterian Historical Society
- United Methodist Church General Commission on Archives and History (U.S.)
- Methodist Archives and Research Centre (U.K.)
- Missionary Research Library, Burke Library, Union Theological Seminary, New York
- School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
- Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World, University of Edinburgh
- Mundus: Gateway to missionary collections in the United Kingdom
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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 Archives Center
Box 851
Valley Forge, PA 19482-0851
Phone: (610) 768-2378
http://www.abc-usa.org/abhs/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.html
Congregational/ 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/Disciples of Christ Historical Society
1101 19th Ave. S
Nashville, TN 37212
Phone: (615) 327-1444
http://www.dishistsoc.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/os/archives/index.htmlMethodist:
United Methodist Church General Commission on Archives and History
36 Madison Ave.
Box 137 Madison, NJ 07940
Contact: Dale Patterson
Phone: (201) 408-3189
Online catalogMissionary 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.html
Presbyterian:
Presbyterian Historical Society
425 Lombard St.
Philadelphia, PA 19147
refdesk@history.pcusa.org
Phone: (215) 627-1852
http://www.history.pcusa.orgMissions-related collections at PHS in Philadelphia include:
PHS RG 31: Board of Foreign Missions. Secretaries' files, 1829-1895
PHS RG 74: West Africa Mission. Records, 1902-1966
PHS RG 82: China Missions, 1891-1955
PHS RG 83: India Mission, 1891-1972
PHS RG 84: Thailand Mission, 1865-1973
PHS RG 85: Philippine Mission, 1903-1973
PHS RG 86: Brazil mission, 1890-1965
PHS RG 87: Mexico Mission, 1867-1972
PHS RG 88: Colombia Mission, 1882-1972
PHS RG 89: United Mission in Iraq, 1924-1971
PHS RG 90: Syria Mission, 1894-1972
PHS RG 91: Iran mission, 1881-1968
PHS RG 93: Japan Mission, 1879-1972
PHS RG 99: Venezuela Mission, 1911-1972
PHS RG 129: China Mission Secretaries' Files, 1893-1957
PHS RG 135: Mission to Indonesia, 1950-1970
PHS RG 136: Hong Kong Mission, 1964-1971
PHS RG 137: Central Brazil Mission, 1956-1972
PHS RG 140: Korea Mission, 1903-1972
PHS RG 142: West Africa Mission, 1911-1965
PHS RG 157: Guatemala Mission, 1911-1972
PHS RG 159: Venezuela Mission, 1897-1966
PHS RG 160: Chile Mission, 1866-1972
PHS RG 161: Iran Mission, 1944-1973
PHS RG 197: Korea Mission. Records, 1940-1982
Presbyterian Church USA Department of History
Box 849
Montreat, NC 28757
Phone: (704) 669-7061
Presbyterian Church in America Historical Center
12330 Conway Road
St. Louis, MO 63141
Phone: (314) 469-9077
Collection IndexSouthern Baptist Convention
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 Christianity in the Non-Western World
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/cscnww.htmChurch Missionary Society
University of Birmingham Library
PO Box 363
Birmingham B15 B2TT
Phone: 44 121 414 5838
(Microfiche available at YDSL, as it is being produced)Church of Scotland
National Library of Scotland
Department of Manuscripts
George IV Bridge
Edinburgh EH1 1EW
Phone: 44 131 226 4531
http://www.nls.uk/ .Conference of British Missionary Societies
School of Oriental and African Studies
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG
Archivist: Rosemary Seton
Phone: +44 20 7898 4181
General inquiries: docenquiry@soas.ac.uk
Phone: +44 20 7898 4180 / Fax: +44 20 7436 2388
http://www.soas.ac.uk/Archives/home.html
(Available on microfiche at YDSL)Council for World Mission/ London Missionary Society
School of Oriental and African Studies
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG
Archivist: Rosemary Seton
Phone: +44 20 7898 4181
General inquiries: docenquiry@soas.ac.uk
Phone: +44 20 7898 4180 / Fax: +44 20 7436 2388
http://www.soas.ac.uk/Archives/home.html
(Available on microfiche at YDSL)International Missionary Council and Conference of British Missionary Societies Joint Archive: Africa
School of Oriental and African Studies
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG
Archivist: Rosemary Seton
Phone: +44 20 7898 4181
General inquiries: docenquiry@soas.ac.uk
Phone: +44 20 7898 4180 / Fax: +44 (0)20 7436 2388
http://www.soas.ac.uk/Archives/home.html
(Available on microfiche at YDSL)Jerusalem and East Mission
Middle East Centre
St. Antony's College
Oxford OX2 6JF
Phone: 44 1865 59651 ext. 264
(Available on microfiche at YDSL)Methodist Church Overseas Division/ Methodist Missionary Society
School of Oriental and African Studies
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG
Archivist: Rosemary Seton
Phone: +44 20 7898 4181
General inquiries: docenquiry@soas.ac.uk
Phone: +44 20 7898 4180 / Fax: +44 (0)20 7436 2388
http://www.soas.ac.uk/Archives/home.html
(Available on microfiche at YDSL)Overseas Missionary Fellowship/ China Inland Mission
School of Oriental and African Studies
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG
Archivist: Rosemary Seton
Phone: +44 20 7898 4181
General inquiries: docenquiry@soas.ac.uk
Phone: +44 20 7898 4180 / Fax: +44 (0)20 7436 2388
http://www.soas.ac.uk/Archives/home.html
Presbyterian Church of England
School of Oriental and African Studies
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG
Archivist: Rosemary Seton
Phone: +44 20 7898 4181
General inquiries: docenquiry@soas.ac.uk
Phone: +44 20 7898 4180 / Fax: +44 (0)20 7436 2388
http://www.soas.ac.uk/Archives/home.html
(Available on microfiche at YDSL)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 Christianity in the Non-Western World
The Mound
New College
Edinburgh EH1 2LU
Phone: 44 131 6 508952
http://www.div.ed.ac.uk/cscnww.htmUnited 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.olrc.bham.ac.uk/special/collection_turner.htm
BELGIUM Archives de la province belge méridionale de la Compagnie de Jésus
Rue Andre Faucille, 6
B-1150 Bruxelles
tel.: 02/762.08.24
fax.: 02/772.45.10
BRAZIL 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 Beozzo
CANADA 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.com
CHINA 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 Shanghai
FRANCE 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)Centre de Documentation et d'Information Missionaire
28, rue de Babylone
75007 Paris
Phone: (33 1) 4439 1040
Fax (33 1) 4222 0191
Librarian: Annie Salavert
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
PERU CEMAA (Centro Evangelico de la Misologia Andina y Amazonica)
Apartado 24,
Lima 43, Peru, S. America.
Contact tparedes@amauta.rcp.net.pe