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Religion & Philosophy
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Acta Sanctorum The Acta Sanctorum Database contains the entire Acta Sanctorum, including all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indices. Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina reference numbers, essential references for scholars, are also included.
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America in Records from Colonial Missionaries, 1635-1928 Records from the United Society Partners in Gospel missionary organisation, providing an insight into British missionary changing attitudes towards the American and Canadian Colonies over 300 years.
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Canada in Records from Colonial Missionaries, 1722-1952 Records, letters, charters and reports from the Canadian branch of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG), an Anglican missionary organisation.
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Chinese Recorder and the Protestant Missionary Community in China , 1867-1941 Covering 1867-1941, this is the archive of the Chinese Recorder journal, intended for U.S. missionaries to China.
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Church Missionary Society Archive This module is a rich repository of source materials on the work of this globally influential organisation, founded in 1799 as an Anglican evangelical movement and still active today. It includes records of both the CMS and the many other missionary societies which have become associated or amalgamated with it over its lifetime.
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Church Missionary Society Periodicals This resource encompasses publications from the CMS, the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society and the latterly integrated South American Missionary Society. Documenting missionary work from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century.
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Colonial Missionaries Papers from America and the West Indies, 1701-1870 Letters, proceedings, journals and reports from the Anglian missionary organisation United Society Partners in Gospel, formerly the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) covering 18th to early 20th century. The collection provides insight into the relationship between colonisers and the colonised.
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Evangelism and the Syria-Lebanon Mission: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Missions, 1869-1910 Correspondence to and from the Board of Foreign Missions (BFM) of the American Presbyterian church in Syria-Lebanon, documenting the BFM's evangelistic, educational and medical work. The collection provides a view into the turbulent political forces that dominated Syria and Lebanon's history during the 19th century, and illustrates the difficulty of conducting mission work under the conditions of religious warfare.
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Evangelism in Africa: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Missions, 1835-1910 Records from the Board of Foreign Missions (BFM) of the American Presbyterian church, in Africa, documenting the BFM's evangelistic, educational and medical work. Mainly correspondence, with some diary accounts, sermon manuscripts, receipts of sale and accounts from missionaries in the field.
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Evangelism in China: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Mission, 1837-1911 Correspondence to and from the Board of Foreign Missions (BFM) of the American Presbyterian church in China, documenting the BFM's evangelistic, educational and medical work.
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Evangelism in India: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Missions, 1833-1910 Records from the Board of Foreign Missions (BFM) of the American Presbyterian church, in India, documenting the BFM's evangelistic, educational and medical work. Documented in the collection are reactions to foreigners generally and Protestant missionaries specifically, discontent with British rule and the development of the Independence movement, and racial and religious warfare between Hindu and Muslim populations.
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Evangelism in Iran: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Mission, 1847-1911 Correspondence to and from the Board of Foreign Missions (BFM) of the American Presbyterian church in Persia (renamed Iran in 1935), documenting the BFM's evangelistic, educational and medical work.
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Evangelism in Japan: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Mission, 1859-1911 Correspondence to and from the Board of Foreign Missions (BFM) of the American Presbyterian church in Japan, documenting the BFM's evangelistic, educational and medical work.
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Evangelism in Korea: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Mission, 1884-1911 Correspondence to and from the Board of Foreign Missions (BFM) of the American Presbyterian church in Korea, documenting the BFM's evangelistic, educational and medical work.
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Evangelism in Latin America: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Mission, 1854-1911 Correspondence to and from the Board of Foreign Missions (BFM) of the American Presbyterian church in Latin America, documenting the BFM's evangelistic, educational and medical work.
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Evangelism in Philippines: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Mission, 1898-1910 Correspondence to and from the Board of Foreign Missions (BFM) of the American Presbyterian church in the Philippines, documenting the BFM's evangelistic, educational and medical work.
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Evangelism in Thailand: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Mission, 1840-1910 Correspondence to and from the Board of Foreign Missions (BFM) of the American Presbyterian church in Thailand, documenting the BFM's evangelistic, educational and medical work.
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FBI File: Waco/Branch Davidian Compound FBI file relating to the siege between FBI agents and members of the Branch Davidian religious group in Waco, Texas, in 1993. The archive serves as a case study of twentieth-century alternative religious movements and their relationships to the U.S. federal government.
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Ghana and Sierra Leone in colonial and missionary records, 1700-1850 This resource comprises selected documents from a number of different microfilm collections, including: early Gold Coast records from the archives of the USPG; the papers of Thomas Perronet Thompson, the first Governor of the Colony of Sierra Leone
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Ghana in Records from colonial missionaries, 1886-1951 A collection of six volumes of records highlighting the role and influence of colonial missionaries in Ghanaian society between 1886-1951. Records include letters sent and received, missionary reports and additional correspondence.
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Global Missions and Theology Records of United States missionary practices and thought, and their activities across the globe during the 19th century. The collection includes personal narratives, organizational records, and biographies of the missionaries, and their churches.
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Methodist Episcopal Church Archives: Missionary Activities This collection comprises annual reports, correspondence and other materials relating to Methodist Episcopal Missionary activities in Italy from 1819-1952.
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Missionary Studies - Research Source These primary sources are a resource for the study of missionary work, educational work, medical work, evangelism, political conflict, and the emergence of indigenous churches.
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Rastafari Ephemeral Publications from the Written Rastafari Archives Project This collection contains magazines, newsletters and ephemeral publications from the Written Rastafari Archives Project (WRAP). The period covered is the early 1970s to 2014 and covers a transitional period, where the movement has spread across the Afro-Atlantic world and has become more globalized.
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Scopes Case Covers the Scopes Case in the U.S. from July 1925. Formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes highlighted the ongoing debates on creationism vs. evolutionism and teaching in American schools. Contains the court record, minutes and transcript.
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South Africa in records from colonial missionaries, 1819-1900 This collection from the Archives of the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, dates from their earliest connection with South Africa. Since January 1965 the USPG continues the work previously done by the SPG (incorporated 1701) and UMCA, the Universities' Mission to Central Africa, founded in 1857 in response to Livingstone's challenge at Cambridge. Both are Anglican societies. As the USPG is a church society, their records are arranged by dioceses, as this is the administrative and geographical unit with which they dealt. The original MSS are mainly in bound volumes and these fall into two series. Series D contains all of the letters written to the SPG, mainly by the bishop and some missionaries, but also by other persons such as administrators. Series E contains the Annual Reports, which each missionary was expected to send home about the area and his work there.
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Sunday School Movement and Its Curriculum Covering the development of Sunday Schools in the USA from 1884-1920.
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Tanzania and Malawi in records from colonial missionaries, 1857-1965 Tanzania and Malawi in records from colonial missionaries, 1857-1965
Containing 54,550 pages belonging to 121 documents housed in 5 volumes.
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Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist Periodicals, 1744-1960 A collection of the main periodicals of the Wesleyan movement, beginning with the minutes of its earliest conference in 1744 and The Arminian magazine in 1778, and continuing through to the twentieth century. Methodist Conference papers and discussion papers are also included.
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Witchcraft in Europe and America Writings on the subject of witchcraft dating from the 15th century to the early 20th century, sourced from the Cornell University Library. Rare and fragile manuscripts containing eyewitness accounts and court records of the trials of witches, including depositions obtained under torture.
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