TARA: Teaching and Research Archive for the History of Christianity
Sponsored by the American Society of Church History
Digital, open-access resource that uses biography to document the 2000 year history of Christianity in Africa; biographical figures include men and women, clergy and lay people, Africans and expatriates from around the world.
Searchable database of texts related to Protestant missionary theology, strategy and activity from the 17th-20th centuries, including “classic” texts in mission history as well as biographical sketches and works by mission thinkers.
This companion website maintained by Lezlie Knox features pictures and maps, as well as useful external links to supplement a study completed with Sean Field of Larry Field’s translation of Margherita Colonna and her two hagiographic legends, Visions of Sainthood in Medieval Rome: The Lives of Margherita Colonna by Giovanni Colonna and Stefania. It is … Read more
Assignment for students to map locations of Christianizing activity mentioned in late-antique primary sources using Esri StoryMaps.
Digital project for the study of Syriac literature, culture, and history, with geographical, prosopographical, and bibliographic databases.
Ongoing digital project on the movement of banished Christian clerics in Late Antiquity, including a prosopographical database, utilizing quantitative as well as qualitative methods.
Medieval Pilgrimage Badges, This website shares knowledge about medieval pilgrimage badges and ideas and tools for studying them, including Guide to Curating Medieval Badges and Pilgrim Souvenirs Interactive 3D Models Publications on badges Classroom activities
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.
Searchable database of evidence for the cult of Christian saints (up to around AD 700)
Key texts presented in their original language, all with English translation and brief contextual commentary