STH: Missions & Missiology

Below you will find important sites for studying the history of missions, including digital projects created here at BU.

• The STH History of Missiology website, with links to:
  • The Boston Korean Diaspora Project.
  • The Dictionary of African Christian Biography.
  • The Russian Methodism Archive.
  • The Old & New in Shona Religion website.
  • The People’s History of the School of Theology.
• The Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative (CDRI) of the ATLA (American Theological Libraries Association), including the following missions-related collections:
  • Missionaries appointed by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (Daguerreotype images)
  • Presbyterian Missionary to Korea during the 1890s-1990s (photographs)
  • Christian missions and social progress (The Students' Lectures on Missions at Princeton Theological Seminary)
  • Missionary postcards
• The International Mission Photography Archive (IMPA) at USC libraries.
• The Missionary E-Texts Archive.
• The Day Missions Collection at Yale Divinity School.
• The Yale Mission Periodicals Online collection: 

International Organizations:

• International Association for Mission Studies 
• International Conference on Computing and Missions 
• Lausanne Movement 
• The World Council of Churches

Centers & Institutes:

• Center for Global Christianity and Mission (Boston University School of Theology) 
• Yale-Edinburgh Group on World Christianity and the History of Mission 
• Nagel Institute (Calvin University) 
• Overseas Ministries Study Center (Princeton Theological Seminary)
• Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide
• Oxford Centre for Missions Studies