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Updated! Gazetteer
of Methodist Missions
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Welcome to the Methodist Missionary
History Project
The Methodist Missionary History
Project was established at the initiative of the Archives and
History Committee of the Methodist Church and was originally named
the Methodist Missionary Society History Project. 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
is underway.
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. Our next conference
will be 9-10th
November 2011 on
the theme Gender, Ethnicity
and the Methodist Missionary Enterprise. Read Prof Andrew Walls'
introduction to the theme here.
Eight annual conferences have been held to date:
- War and Peace and Methodist
Missions Woodbrooke
Quaker Study Centre, Birmingham, 2010.
More than 91 papers have already been delivered at Methodist Missionary
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 World Christianity , 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;
and Dr Deborah Gaitskell.
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