Religious Studies

From its roots as an Anglican evangelical movement driven by lay persons, this resource encompasses publications from the CMS, the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society and the latterly integrated South American Missionary Society. Documenting missionary work from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, the periodicals include news, journals and reports offering a unique perspective on global history and cultural encounters.

Part of Gale Primary Sources: Archives Unbound, the collection comprises materials relating to Methodist Episcopal Missionary activities, particularly in reference to Italy.

Part of Gale Primary Sources: Archives Unbound: this collection documents the broad range of Nineteenth Century religious missionary activities, practices and thought in the United States by reproducing pivotal personal narratives, organizational records, and biographies of the essential leaders, simple missionaries, and churches. This collection includes materials on missionary activities among Native Americans and African Americans, both slaves and freedmen.

Part of Gale Primary Sources: Archives Unbound, the records in this database provide invaluable information on social conditions in Greater Syria and Lebanon and on efforts to spread the gospel during the nineteenth century.

Part of Gale Primary Sources: Archives Unbound, the records of the Board of Foreign Missions (BFM) of the Presbyterian Church provide valuable information on social conditions in developing nations and on efforts to spread the gospel during the nineteenth century.

Part of Gale Primary Sources: Archives Unbound, the records in this collection provide invaluable information on social conditions in China and on efforts to spread the gospel during the nineteenth century. Documenting the church’s educational, evangelical, and medical work, these are records mainly of incoming correspondence from the mission field and outgoing correspondence from the Board headquarters.

Evangelism in India took the form primarily of village itineration where male and female missionaries ministered to the spiritual needs of the populace while simultaneously attending to their medical and educational needs. The collection documents the Board of Foreign Missions’ tripartite ministry in India but also reflects the development of the modern Indian state in a broader sense.

Part of Gale Primary Sources: Archives Unbound, the records offered here provide invaluable information on social conditions in Persia (renamed Iran in 1935) and on efforts to spread the gospel during the nineteenth century.

Part of Gale Primary Sources: Archives Unbound, the records offered here provide information on social conditions in Japan and on efforts to spread the gospel during the nineteenth century.

Part of Gale Primary Sources: Archives Unbound, the records offered here provide invaluable information on social conditions in Korea and on efforts to spread the gospel during the nineteenth century.

Part of Gale Primary Sources: Archives Unbound, the collection provides invaluable information on social conditions in Latin America and on efforts to spread the gospel during the nineteenth century.

Part of Gale Primary Sources: Archives Unbound, the database provides information on social conditions in the Philippines and on efforts to spread the gospel during the nineteenth century.

Part of Gale Primary Sources: Archives Unbound, records in this database provide invaluable information on social conditions in Siam (renamed Thailand in 1948) and on efforts to spread the gospel during the nineteenth century.