Yale University Library Research Guides: Missions and World Christianity: Online content

General

Yale Divinity Library Special Collections online resources
Including missionary papers, mission agency reports.
International Bulletin of Missionary Research
The IBMR is academic journal covering mission studies and world Christianity, published by the Overseas Ministries Study Center (OMSC) at Princeton Theological Seminary
International Mission Photography Archive
Photographs contributed by nine repositories of mission archives.
Global Digital Library on Theology and Ecumenism
Online library offering access free of charge to more than 650,000 full-text articles, journals, books and other resources.
Boston University School of Theology History of Missiology
Biographical material about missionaries and classic writings in the history of Protestant mission thought.
Princeton Theological Seminary Theological Commons
Digital library of around 80,000 books and periodicals on theology and religion
Missionary E-Texts Archives
An electronic repository of historical texts by, about and for missionaries.
Edinburgh 2010: Resources
Photos, papers, books, and articles related to Edinburgh 1910 and the centenary celebration.
World Missionary Conference, 1910, Edinburgh - Volumes 1 - 9
Project Canterbury
Anglican history; includes digitized texts re. missions and index to Episcopal Church periodical Spirit of Missions
The Vinton Books
Biographical information about American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions missionaries - see also the Congregational Library's Obituary Database.
ATLA Digital Library
Use "Browse collections" function to locate missions-related maps, photographs, postcards, texts, statistics.
World Council of Churches: Dialogue with People of Living Faiths
This collection contains papers from the archives of the World Council of Churches in Geneva documenting the World Conference of Religions for Peace multi-faith consultations, including the Christian-Hindu dialogue, the Christian-Muslim dialogue and the Christian-Buddhist dialogue - Access available to Yale community

China

Directories of Protestant missionaries in China: 1874, 1881, 1884, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1936, 1940

Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity
Life stories of significant figures in Chinese Christianity
Chinese Christian Texts Database
Primary and secondary sources concerning the cultural contacts between China and Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (from 1582 to ca. 1840)
The Flower Mountain Murders: a "Missionary Case"
A database by Ian Welch, Australian National University
London Missionary Society Collection of Chinese Books
Digitized by National Library of Australia
The Mission Work of the Presbyterian Church in the United States in China, 1867-1952 by James E. Bear
Peter Parker Papers
Papers of first American medical missionary to China, from Yale University Medical Historical Library
Western Medicine in China Project
Archive guides, primary sources, digitized materials gathered by Luce-funded project at IUPUI
American Context of the China Christian Colleges project
Legacy website of a project based at Wesleyan University 2002-2003.