TARA: Teaching and Research Archive for the History of Christianity
Sponsored by the American Society of Church History
The China Historical Christian Database (CHCD) is a new digital tool for the study of Chinese Christianity from 1550 to 1950. The CHCD is hosted by the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University. The CHCD quantifies and visualizes the place of Christianity in modern China (1550-1950). It provides users the tools to … Read more
Visual presentation of photos showing the complex interaction or encounters between Basel Missionaries – usually Swiss or German – and West Africans, Indians, and Chinese between 1850 and 1950.
The historical images in the International Mission Photography Archive come from Protestant and Catholic missionary collections held at a number of centers in Britain, Europe, and North America. The photographs record missionary endeavors and reflect the missionaries’ experience of communities and environments abroad.
The Hesburgh Libraries at the University of Notre Dame have several exhibits of material from their digital special collections, some Catholic-themed.
This website and database aims to introduce readers to the Jesuitica Collection at the Burns Library, Boston College, by highlighting books written about China by Jesuit missionaries.
The CCT-Database includes primary and secondary sources concerning the cultural contacts between China and Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (from 1582 to ca. 1840).
The Russian Methodism Digital Archive is an ongoing project collecting sources on the history of Russian Methodism, including a scrapbook, hymns, and newsletter.
Chinese Christian Posters by Center for Global Christianity & Mission Between 1927 and 1951 millions of Christian posters entered the Chinese market. Printed by the thousands onto the cheapest paper, most were used in street preaching and teaching. Others were hung in tearooms and shop windows, or put up with starch and brooms on city … Read more
Audio autobiography of Barbara Beach Alter, missionary in northern India during the 20th century who preferred to live “in the midst” of people rather than convert them.