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Welcome to the Methodist Missionary Society
History Project
The Methodist Missionary Society
Project was established at the initiative of the Archives and
History Committee of the Methodist Church. Its aim is to promote
the study of the history of the
missionary activity of people of all branches of British and Irish
Methodism, and to increase understanding of the history of related
churches in other
continents.
Activities in association with the Project include conferences, seminars and lectures; the
location and preservation of documentary and other sources for missionary
history; and the
development of instruments for its study.
The Project encourages, and on occasion sponsors, the publication
of scholarly publications within its field of interest, as well as providing facilities for internet communication between
those working in the field. A major history of the Methodist Missionary
Society and
its antecedents is planned.
Book now for a place at our
2009 conference Methodist
Missions and
Indigenous Religious Movements 25-26th November
2009. Keynote speakers will be Professor Sebastian
Kim and Professor
David Maxwell.
The inaugural conference of the Project
was held at the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western
World, University of Edinburgh, in July 2002. Six annual conferences
have been held:
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"All Our Pomp of Yesterday" Methodist Missions
and the Rising and Setting of Empire, Woodbrooke Quaker Study
Centre, Birmingham, 2007.
- "Did they believe and
preah our doctrines?" Theological
Thought and Conviction in Methodist Missions, Woodbrooke Quaker
Study Centre, Birmingham, 2008.
More than 91 papers have already been delivered at MMS History
Project seminars and conferences and many can be ordered
in pdf format.
Papers from the most recent events, Methodist
Missions and the Printed Word and the Methodist
Missions and Development day conference, are now
available on this website.
Convener: Rev.
John R Pritchard
General Editor:
Prof. Andrew Walls
Project Officer:
Dr Kirsteen Murray,
Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western
World, University of Edinburgh, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh
EH1
2LX.
Steering Group: Ms Alison Lewis; Mr Lance Martin (MMS
Archives); Rev Dr Albert W Mosley; Professor Edward Royle;
Ms Rosemary Seton; Dr John A Vickers; Dr Suzanne Schwarz
and Dr Deborah Gaitskell.
The Project works in
association with the Scottish Institute for Missionary Studies,
and acknowledges the Institute's financial assistance. |