To advance its mission to support and promote scholarship and teaching, the American Society of Church History has launched a new online repository: TARA, our Teaching and Research Archive. This curated collection covers the history of Christianity and its cultural contexts in all places and historical periods through the 20th century, including non-Western expressions.
We especially encourage projects which engage in interdisciplinary discussion, historicize theological ideas and lived religious practices, apply digital methods, and make scholarship and source material more readily available for both research and pedagogy. In addition to links to existing resources and projects, we accept original content for peer-review by our editorial committee.
Featured Recent Contributions
“Visualizing Countryside: Syriac Orthodox Architecture of Northern Mesopotamia“
By Reyhan Durmaz (U-Penn, Religious Studies)
This archive presents photographs of medieval churches and monasteries in the Tur Abdin region in northern Mesopotamia (modern day south-east Turkey). It includes images of buildings, decorations, architectural details, and landscapes. The archive is presented as both as a photograph collection JSTOR and ARTSTOR, and as an interactive StoryMap.
Navigating the Archive
Resources are organized by type and period, and can be searched for by type, period, region, and tags. You can beta-test our advanced search here as well.
Contribute to TARA
We invite you to send submissions to our new and developing archive! Our guidelines can be found here, and we welcome:
- Digital projects and scholarship
- New texts and translations
- Source materials including images, video, and material culture
- Bibliographies and reference works
- Syllabi, assignments, and class exercises or activities
If you would like to submit material, please send it to our main Church History email address: churchhistory@umn.edu, and please put TARA in the subject line.
