Missions

Contents:

Library of Congress Classification

BV 2000 - 3705 Missions

Subject Headings

Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

Ref BR 95 .W67 2001
World Christian Encyclopedia: A Comparative Survey of Churches and Religions in the Modern World. Barrett, et al., eds.
Statistics updated in the January issues of International Bulletin of Missionary Research.

Ref BV 2040 .E5 1891
Encyclopedia of Missions: Descriptive, Historical, Biographical, Statistical. 2 vols., 1891. Useful for researching the history of missions.

Ref BV 2040 .E92 2000
Evangelical Dictionary of World Missions. A. Scott Moreau, ed.

Ref BV 2040 .J64 1995
Philosophy, Science, and Theology of Mission in the 19th and 20th Centuries: A Missiological Encyclopedia Part 1: The Philosophy and Science of Mission. 1995. Jan A.B. Jongenell. First of 2 vols.

Ref BV 2040 .N44
Concise Dictionary of the Christian World Mission. 1971.
Signed articles, includes some non-Christian missions.

Ref BV 3700 .B56 1999
Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions. 1999
Articles on 2,400 individuals from the post-New Testament period down to the present. Contains bibliographies.

Ref G 1 .C88 2000
Countries of the World 2000.

Ref G 133 .L3 1993
Lands and Peoples A brief introduction to countries, including information about the land, people, economy, and history.

Ref GN 307 .E53x 1991
Encyclopedia of World Cultures.
Published with the support of HRAF

Ref HC 59.7 .K87 1987
Encyclopedia of the Third World 3 vols.
Articles with bibliographies on 122 countries.

Statistical Data

Ref BR 95 .W67 2001
World Christian Encyclopedia: A Comparative Survey of Churches and Religions in the Modern World. Barrett, et al., eds. Statistics updated in the January issues of International Bulletin of Missionary Research.

Ref BV 2040 .E5 1891
Encyclopedia of Missions: Descriptive, Historical, Biographical, Statistical. 2 vols., 1891. Useful for researching the history of missions.

Ref BV 2050 .D55 2004-06
Mission Handbook: U.S/Canadaian Protestant Ministries Overseas

Ref BV 2050 .J63 2001
Operation World. 2001. Missions related statistics and information for different countries.

Ref BV 2120 .T185x 1989
Target Earth: The Necessity of Diversity in a Holistic Perspective on World Mission. Frank Kaleb Jansen, ed. Statistics drawn from Britannica’s Britannica World Data. For more current statistics, see the gray pages of the annual volume of Britannica Book of the Year (Ref AE 5 .E364).

Ref HA 12.5 .U63 2002-2004
Statistical Yearbook. 2002-2004
Profiles the UN member nations using these major headings: geography, human factors (includes ethnic division and religion), education, science and technology, government and law, labor force, production sectors, manufacturing sector, and finance, economics, trade.

Ref HA 202 .S7x 2000
Statistical Abstract of the United States. 
The standard summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Religion falls under Section 1, Population.

Additional books can be found using the LC subject headings "Missions Statistics" or "Statistics" in TrinCat.

One can search also the ATLA database using the subject headings, "statistics," "church statistics," or specify by country as, for example, "church statistics Africa."

Citation Indexes & Databases

Online Databases:

Academic Search Premier Full-text: 1975–current. Provides full- text for over 4,700 academic, social sciences, humanities, general science, education and multi-cultural journals. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 8,200 journals in the collection.

ATLA Religion Database available through EBSCOHost. Includes these principal resources:

–Religion Index One: Periodicals, 1949–current;
–Religion Index Two: Multi-Author Works, 1960–current;
–Index to Books Reviews in Religion, 1949–current;
–Full text for 50+ journals.

Click on "Subject Search" and browse the various subject headings related to "evangelistic work," "missionaries," and "missions." Add geographic terms for mission activity in the various countries of the world.

You will need your Trinity Network (Novell) user name and password to log in from off-campus.

Christian Periodical Index v. 1–, 1958–.

Indexes primarily evangelical literature, much of which is not covered in ATLA. Click on the "Index" button and browse the various subject headings related to "missionaries," "missions," "evangelism," and "evangelistic work." Add geographic terms for mission activity in the various countries of the world.

Religious & Theological Abstracts, 1958–current.

Search on the terms "evangelism," "mission," "missions," "missionary," and "missionaries." Add geographic terms for mission activity in the various countries of the world.

Print Indexes:

Index Table BV 2000 .M57x
Missionalia. 1973 - current.

Index Table Z 7753 A5
ATLA Religion Index One: Periodicals. 1949 - current.

Index Table Z 7838 .M6 B5
Bibliographia Missionaria. 1952 -1996. Catholic bibliography.

Index Table Z 7753 .C5
Christian Periodical Index. 1956 - 2002.  

Handbooks

Ref BR 121.2 M54
World Christianity Series, 1979-1991
On-going series on areas of the world. Currently 8 vols.

Ref BV 2040 .I67x 2000
An Inquiry in the Progress of World Evangelism . . . 2 volumes, 2000.

Ref BV 2050 .D55 2004-06
Mission Handbook: U.S/Canadaian Protestant Ministries Overseas

Ref BV 2050 .J63 2001
Operation World. 2001.
Missions related statistics and information for different countries.

Ref BV 2050 .W67x 1995
World Directory of Missionary Training Programmes. 2nd ed. 1995.

Ref BV 2360 .Y7384 1996
Go Manual: Global opportunities in Youth with a Mission. 1996.

Ref BV 2750 .P38 1989
From Every People: A Handbook of Two-Third World Missions with Directory/Histories/Analysis. 1989.

Ref JF 37 .P6 2000-02
Political Handbook of the World

Ref JN 1 .E85
Europa Year Book. 2 volumes. Annual.
Up-to-date cultural and political information for each country.

Bibliographies

Ref BV 2040 .E5 1891
"A Bibliography of Foreign Missions." in the Encyclopedia of Missions 1:575-661. Bibliography on missions work prior to 1890.

Ref BV 2061 .3 .I58x
International Missions Bibliography 1960-2000.

Ref Z 7164 .U5 S54
United States Doctoral Dissertations in Third World Studies 1869-1978.
19,000 Dissertations done in the US arranged geographically.

Ref Z 7757 .D44 T43x
Theologie im Kontext. 1980 - current. Semiannual.
An annotated German-language index of about 70 third world journals.

Ref Z 7817 .A55 1966
Bibliography of the Theology of Missions in the Twentieth Century.
1,000 item bibliography stressing Protestant missions.

Ref Z 7838 .M6 B5x
Bibliotheca Missionum. 1916-1974
30 vol. Catholic bibliography on missions from 16th century to the present.

Shelved in Periodicals under International Bulletin...
"Doctoral Dissertations on Mission, 1945-1981." International Bulletin of Missionary Research 7(July 1983):97-134.
Bibliography excluding D.Min. and D.Miss. projects for years 1945-81.

Shelved in Periodicals under International Review...
"Bibliography of World Mission and Evangelism," In: The International Review of Mission. v. 1- current.
Ongoing bibliography that includes about 1,000 books per year.

Z 7817 .B53x
Bible and Mission: A Partially Annotated Bibliography, 1960-1980.
Lists 1069 books and articles in English, French, and German.

Web Sites

Brigada’s Gateway to Missions Networking
http://www.brigada.org/

Global Mapping International’s Mission Research Resources
http://www.gmi.org/research/research.htm

MisLinks: A Web-based Missions Directory
http://www.mislinks.org/ 

Mission Finder
http://www.missionfinder.org/index.htm

Mission Resource Directory
http://www.mrd.org/

Operation World
http://www.gmi.org/ow/ 

Preparing for Short Term Missions
http://home.snu.edu/~hculbert.fs/short.htm

ShortTermMissions.Com
http://www.shorttermmissions.com/

Urbana.org
http://www.urbana.org/   

Website for Demographics

Periodicals in Rolfing Library

Microfiche

HRAF (Human Relations Area Files)

The HRAF microfiche contain information on various world cultures. Documentation about the HRAF can be found in the microfilm room.