Intercultural Studies: History of Missions
This guide will help you in your research for Intercultural Studies.
Available in the Library
These books, plus many more, can all be found in the Reference section of our library. Search the Library Online Catalog to find additional resources.
Translating the Message: The Missionary Impact on Culture by Lamin O. Sanneh
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BV 2063 .S23 2009
North American Foreign Missions, 1810-1914: Theology, Theory, and Policy by Wilbert R. Shenk
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BV 2121 .U6 N67 2004
Protestant Origins in India: Tamil Evangelical Christians, 1706-1835 by Dennis D. Hudson
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BV 3255 .T3 H83 2000
The World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 1910 by Brian Stanley
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BV 2020 .W68 2009
Missions, Missionaries, and Native Americans: Long-Term Processes and Daily Practices by Mariah F. Wade
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E 98 .M6 W23 2008
Converting Colonialism: Visions and Realities in Mission History, 1706-1914 by Dana L. Robert
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BV 2120 .C66 2008
Missions History
- International Mission Photography ArchiveThis website offers historical images from Protestant and Catholic missionary collections from the middle of the nineteenth to the middle of the twentieth century, and offer a visual record of missionary activities and experiences in Africa, China, Madagascar, India, Papua-New Guinea, and the Caribbean.
- History of MissiologyThis portal provides access to biographical material about missionaries as well as to classic writings in the history of Protestant mission thought, including works on mission theology, theory, and strategy.
- Christian Missions History TimelineThis timeline published by a faculty member at Southern Nazarene University includes key people, events, locations and movements.
- American Missionary 1878-1901This website contains the full-text of volumes 32-55 of the journal American Missionary, which was published by the American Missionary Association.
- ATLA Cooperative Digital Resources InitiativeThis website is a repository of digital resources contributed by many libraries. It provides access to digitial images of woodcuts, photographs, slides, papyri, coins, maps, postcards, manuscripts, lithographs, sermons, shape-note tune books, and various forms of Christian art, architecture, and iconography. One of their main themes in Missions and World Religions.
- Flower Pentecostal Heritage CenterAs the official archives, research center, and museum of the Assemblies of God, the FPHC is dedicated to preserving and sharing materials relating to the Assemblies of God and the broader Pentecostal and charismatic movements. Their website includes free research tools, including digitized pages of indexed periodicals, historic photographs, and audio and video clips available for download. In addition, users may search the online catalog to the collection.
- Pentecostal/Charismatic MovementThe Pentecostal/Charismatic Movement tab on the SRC’s Church History LibGuide includes many resources on Assemblies of God History, Pentecostal History, and Charismatic History.
Missionary Biographies
Missionaries | The Online Books Page
This website has links to many books available full-text online that are biographies or stories about late 19th/early 20th century missionaries.- This website is an electronic repository of historical texts by, about, and for missionaries.
Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity
This website has the life stories of significant figures in Chinese Christianity across the centuries and around the world.Dictionary of African Christian Biography
This website is a great resource for the spread of Christianity in Africa, going back 2,000 years.Center for Study of the Life and Work of William Carey, D.D. (1761-1834)
The Center for Study of the Life and Work of William Carey, run by William Carey University, is to promote an understanding of the accomplishments of William Carey and to enhance appreciation of the religious, cultural, scientific, and historical contexts in which Carey worked in Britain and India.Lillian Trasher: The Nile Mother
This 1955 documentary is about AG missionary Lillian Trasher’s ministry with Egyptian orphans.- This documentary is based on the true story that inspired Elisabeth Elliot’s best-seller, Through Gates of Splendor. This award-winning documentary features first-hand accounts of this fascinating story, including recent tribe interviews. You can watch the complete film at this link.
North American Missions
- The Russian Church and Native Alaskan CulturesThis website is an online exhibit from the Library of Congress that covers the mission work of the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska, which began in 1794.
- Alaska, and Missions on the North Pacific CoastThis full-text book, written by American Presbyterian minister Dr. Sheldon Jackson, tells the story of missions work in Alaska after the United States purchsed the territory in 1867.
- California Missions Resource CenterThis website aims to provide interesting, useful and accessible information about all aspects of the California Missions.
- Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd, Missionary to the IndiansDavid Brainerd (1718-1747) was a missionary to the American Indians in New York, New Jersey, and eastern Pennsylvania. This full-text book was taken mostly from his own diary and edited by Jonathan Edwards.
World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh, 1910
- The World Missionary ConferenceCharles Clayton Morrison was editor of the Christian Century for much of the first half of the twentieth century. He gives a first hand account of the World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh 1910. This article appeared in the Christian Century, July 7, 1910.