Benjamin L. Hartley

Visiting Assistant Professor of Christian Mission

6 Lancaster Avenue, Wynnewood PA 19096

610-645-9370

bhartley@eastern.edu

 

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Links

The following links are of websites that I find especially useful arranged according to the areas of my teaching and research interests:

Missiology

The Network for Strategic Missions
http://www.strategicnetwork.org. Among other areas of interest, this website offers a large online database of articles published by several respected journals in the field of missiology.

Yale Divinity School Library
http://www.library.yale.edu/div/MissionsResources.htm. In addition to holding North America's finest collection of materials for the study of Protestant missions, this page also provides links to many other helpful resources.

Dictionary of African Christian Biography
http://www.dacb.org/. This website is a massive collection of the often "untold stories of African Christians who have transformed Africa and the Christian world."

Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity
http://www.bdcconline.net/. This website seeks to record the "life stories of significant figures in Chinese Christianity across the centuries and around the world."

Newbigin.net
http://www.newbigin.net/. A comprehensive bibliography with many full-text articles by one of the most influential theologians of mission of the twentieth century.

Center for the Study of Christianity in Asia
http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/csca.htm. Designed as a portal to many resources pertaining to Christian mission in Asia.

Global Mapping International
http://www.gmi.org/. Provides a wealth of information about the current status of the Christian missionary movement around the world.

World Christian Database
http://worldchristiandatabase.org/wcd/. A searchable database of information about religion and other subjects for nearly every country in the world. Full access to this database is available at the Palmer Theological Seminary library.

Sociology of Missions Project
http://www.sompsite.com/.

Internet Mission Photography Archive
http://www.usc.edu/libraries/archives/arc/digarchives/mission/. Contains a searchable database of more than 2,000 images of Christian mission work from the Roman Catholic and Protestant traditions from as early as the nineteenth century.

American Society of Missiology
http://www.asmweb.org/. The professional society for missiology in North America.

Hartford Institute for Religion Research
http://hirr.hartsem.edu/. Contains a large collection of articles and news about social scientific research on North American congregations.

Methodism / Wesleyan Studies

The United Methodist Church
http://www.umc.org.

Wesley Center Online
http://wesley.nnu.edu/wesleyan_theology/theojrnl/

Wesleyan Theological Society
http://wesley.nnu.edu/wts/weblinks.htm. This particular page provides links to several other valuable resources in the area of Wesleyan and Methodist studies.

The Methodist Archives and History Center of the United Methodist Church
http://www.gcah.org/center.htm

Society for Pentecostal Studies
http://www.sps-usa.org/.

Studies in International Development

Eastern University's School of Leadership and Development
http://www.eastern.edu/academic/international/sld/index.shtml. Eastern University offers both an MBA in international economic development, an MS in international development, and other areas of related interest.

Development Gateway
http://www.developmentgateway.org/.

International Development Statistics Online Databases
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/50/17/5037721.htm. These databases are part of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.