HELPFUL RESEARCH PROJECTS AND SITES

Jack Thompson ([email protected]):

• re. Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World: The Centre will have to move out of its current offices in the building next to New College because of large rent increase.  They are currently looking for space to house the Centre's library and archival collections.
• Towards 2010 ( http://www.towards2010.org.uk/) Next event: "The Preparation of Missionaries"and "The Home Base of Missions"  Saturday, 7th October 2006 10:30am - 3:30pm New College, Edinburgh

• Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture is edited at Florida State University. The editors invite submissions in all areas of the history of Christianity, including its non-Western expressions.  They are hoping to publish a series of articles on the historiography on Christianity in particular countries and/or regions. 

• International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR) (http://www.iahr.dk/) is developing a Women Scholars Network.

• African Association for the Study of Religions ( http://www.a-asr.org/ ) - The Third AASR Conference in Africa is planned for July, 8-13, 2007, and will be held in the University of Botswana, in Gaborone, Botswana, on the theme 'Health, Healing, and the Study of the Religions of Africa'.

• International Association for Mission Studies (IAMS) ( http://www.missionstudies.org/) – DABOH  (Documentation, Archives, Bibliography and Oral History) study group will be sponsoring a mini-consultation in Christianity in Hungary in Budapest, August 2008.  DABOH has sponsored the translation of the "Rescuing the Memory of our Peoples" Archives Manual into Chinese, French, Portuguese, and Swahili.  See: http://www.library.yale.edu/div/RTMmanuallinks.html.
• Encyclopedia of Missions and Missionaries - see: http://www.berkshirepublishing.com/brw/pjdescr.asp?projID=44
• Dictionary of African Christian Biography - see: http://www.dacb.org/
• Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity: see: http://www.bdcconline.net/

• IMPA / BMPIX  The Internet Mission Photography Archive (IMPA) project ( http://www.usc.edu/impa) hopes to receive funds from the Getty Institute to support the move of the Basel Mission Picture Archive ( http://www.bmpix.org/) to the same host as IMPA.

• Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Relations in the Middle East“ research guide: www.library.upenn.edu/research/prrucs/index.html focuses primarily on the modern (post-1800) period, when the rise and assertion of Western imperial power prompted far-reaching social changes in the Middle East.

• Project on Religion and Economic Change is compiling historic missions data: see - http://www.prec-online.com : 1) Protestant Mission Stations:  1837-1925; 2) Catholic Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions:  1885-1968; 3) Protestant & Catholic Missions Data (1830s-1960s): Missionaries, Education, Medical work

• Competing Kingdoms: Women, Mission, Nation, and American Empire, 1812-1938 - conference was held in Oxford in April - http://womenandmission.binghamton.edu/  -focus on the social history of the participation of women in mission and the contribution of women missionaries to American cultural expansion.-have organized an affiliate group within the Organization of American Historians with the name Women and American Global Missions (WAGM)  -Contact: [email protected]

• Documentation of Christianity in Asia Consortium: Trinity Theological College, Singapore – Centre for the Study of Christianity in Asia; Hong Kong Baptist University; Payap University, Thailand; Yale Divinity School Library. Member institutions are committed to work collaboratively to improve the documentation of Christianity in Asia
• Yale Divinity Library Latourette Initiative: Digitization/microfilming of Anglican Church of Uganda records held at Uganda Christian University; Continuing microfilming of World Council of Churches archives; Continuing microfilming of archives of Evangelical Lutheran Church
• Researching World Christianity: Doctoral Dissertations on Mission since 1900 - http ://resources.library.yale.edu/dissertations/ This database, hosted at the Yale Divinity Library, aims to record all English-language doctoral dissertations on missions and on Christianity outside the West. Undertaken in collaboration with the International Bulletin of Missionary Research with support of OMSC.
• ATLA Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative (http ://www.atla.com/digitalresources) - Missions-related collections include: Missionary maps and charts; Missionary postcards; Daguerreotypes of ABCFM missionaries; Korean mission photos; Photos from E. Stanley Jones papers

• Christopher Anderson ([email protected]) collection of public addresses given at the 1919 Methodist missionary fair held in Columbus, Ohio. The tentative title of the book is: "Voices from the Protestant Fair: Race, Gender and Nation at the Methodist Missionary Exposition." To be published by Scarecrow Press (2007 or 2008).
• Ruth Brouwer ([email protected]): "From Foreign Missions to Foreign Aid: Canadian Churches and NGOs in Two Development Decades [1960s-70s]."  My plan is to do case studies of (a) transitions in the United Church of Canada in terms of its overseas work, and (b) the first two decades of CUSO (Canadian University Service Overseas). I would be interested to know of any others who are doing research in a related area, and I would be most grateful for any tips on books and articles related to this theme in other contexts.
• Thomas Oey ([email protected]): American Southern missions to Batavia, Shanghai, Hangzhou and Suzhou circa 1835-1875
• Ian Welch ([email protected]) Second ANU Missionary History Conference:Asia-Pacific Missionaries: At Home and Abroad 26-27 August 2006 Australia National University

• World Christianity as a Global Issue. To be held November 4-7, 2010, Boston, Massachusetts. Rodney Petersen ([email protected])