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Missiology and Global Mission
Unreached People Groups
Demographics and Country Information
Specific Regional Focus

Missiology and Global Mission

American Society of Missiology -- In addition to information about the society, its publications, programs and archives, the ASM site gives a searchable periodical index and links to key sites for mission reseach including organizations, associations, projects, pubishers, research resources, and bibliographic search. http://www.asmweb.org

Billy Graham Center Mission Archives -- Includes guides to over 500 collections of mission archives, including the records of several mission boards. http://www.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/collectn.html

Caleb Project-- One of the most helpful sites for beginning evangelical missions research, providing a wealth of information and links to other sites, all focused on unreached people groups, least evangelized cities, and the 10/40 Window. http://www.calebresources.org/

Center for Study of the Life and Work of William Carey -- View the missiological writings of William Carey at http://www.wmcarey.edu/carey/enquiry/enquiry.html or a map gallery of his missions work at http://www.wmcarey.edu/carey/maps/maps.htm

Christianity Today --Pprovides a search engine covering Christianity Today's database of over 5000 Christian resources. http://www.christianitytoday.com/

DCI -- These "mission senders" have developed a useful website, offering all kinds of information on missions. http://www.dci.org.uk

Evangelical Missiological Society -- a scholarly society committed to the Great Commission. http://www.emsweb.org/

Fuller Seminary Library Research Resources -- Access to libraries, online documents and religious indexes. http://www.fuller.edu/inet_serv/rsrcRes.html

Global Economic Outreach -- A registry of Christians with a wide variety of professions, skills, talents, and hobbies, available to missionaries worldwide. GEO's emphasis is on building partnerships to advance economic and community development projects. http://www.teamgeo.org

Global Missiology -- "a quarterly publication with a commitment to the world-wide mission of the Church and the biblical mandate to "make disciples". It is, by design, a venue for electronic, interactive exchanges among researchers, practitioners and scholars who have an international scope and global concerns." http://www.globalmissiology.net

Henry Martyn Centre -- "for the study of mission and world Christianity," including a library catalog of 4,500 books on mission and major research projects, including Currents in World Christianity Project and Christianity in Asia Project. http://www.martynmission.cam.ac.uk

International Association of Mission Studies -- Gives access to a list of missiological societies and mission research resources. http://www.missionstudies.org/

International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention has great information about the countries they work in. http://www.imb.org/

Missionary Service News Agency (MISNA) -- an Italian Catholic news agency specializing in spreading news and detailed information concerning the World's South. http://www.misna.org/eng/default.htm

Social Scientific Studies of Missions -- Advances the interaction of missiology and the social sciences. http://www.sompsite.com

Summer Institute of Linguistics -- Extensive helps and links to other web sites in the academic areas of linguistics, anthropology, literacy, language learning, translation, and computing. http://www.sil.org/

People Teams -- Connecting mission groups worldwide for the fulfillment of the Great Commission. http://www.peopleteams.org

Yahoo! Directory -- The popular Web search engine has annotated listings of mission organizations. http://d2.dir.ac2.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Religion_and_Spirituality/Faiths_and_Practices/Christianity/Missions/t

Yale Library -- Lists "Selected Internet Resources" in the areas of Christianity, Church, Missions, and Religion. http://www.library.yale.edu/div/electext.htm

Unreached People Groups

Ethnologue -- An encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world's known living languages including information on alternate names, number of speakers, location, dialects, linguistic affiliation, and other sociolinguistic and demographic information. http://www.ethnologue.com

Joshua Project -- An expansion of the original Joshua Project 2000, highlighting least reached peoples through information sharing and networking. http://www.joshuaproject.net

MisLinks People Groups Page -- Links to some of the best sites focused on unreached peoples information. http://www.mislinks.org/practical/peoples.htm

AD2000 & Beyond Movement -- (Historical Archive) Information about the Global Congress on World Evangelization (GCOWE), Joshua Project 2000 (list of unreached peoples), 10/40 Window, plans for the AD2000 movement in every country and in strategic cities at http://www.ad2000.org

Demographics and Country Information

World Factbook -- Information on all countries, including a simple map of each country at https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html

Country Studies / Area Handbooks -- The online versions of books prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the Department of the Army. This series presently contains studies of 71 countries at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html

Countries of the World (InfoPlease) -- Each Country Profile includes information on geography, history, population, capital, largest cities, languages, ethnicity/race, religion, literacy rate, economy, and government at http://www.infoplease.com/countries.html

Portals to the World (The Library of Congress, USA) -- Portals to the World contains selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world. They are arranged by country or area with the links for each sorted into a wide range of broad categories. The links were selected by Area Specialists and other Library staff using Library of Congress selection criteria. http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html

Virtual Tourist -- The ideal site for links to worldwide travel at http://www.vtourist.com

World Weather -- Current weather condition of cities around the world, from the US National Weather Service at http://www.emulateme.com/weather.htm

Statistical Resources on the Web -- Available from the University of Michigan Documents Center at http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html

International Census Statistics -- Basic census stats for every country at http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbprint.html

U.S. Census Bureau -- This page allows you to obtain summary demographic data from several countries at http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/ipc/www/idbsum.html

Penn State Population Research Institute -- This web site has several pages full of demographic information at http://athens.pop.psu.edu/allen/LinksByCat.cfm?SubjectID=6

CIA Reference Maps -- A collection of maps that the CIA has published for The 2008 World Factbook at
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/docs/refmaps.html

Specific Regional Focus

Southern African Missiological Society -- A wealth of mission resources and e-mail discussion groups at http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/8409/

Asia Harvest -- An inter-denominational Christian mission agency focused on the peoples of Asia. Offers great "people profiles" from China, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, India, and Afghanistan at http://www.asiaharvest.org

India Missions Association -- information on the peoples and mission agencies of India at http://www.imaindia.org

Sydney Centre for World Mission -- an Australian missions mobilization and resource center focused on unreached peoples. http://www.pastornet.net.au/scwm

INFOBRASIL -- great collections of information on the country, peoples, and mission agencies in Brazil, all written and maintained from within the country, and all in Portuguese (of course) at http://www.infobrasil.org

PROLADES -- The Latin-American Socio-Religious Studies Program helps Christian leaders self-evaluate their churches and organizations and assist in developing strategies and programs to acheive greater church growth. http://www.prolades.com

OSCAR -- A vast array of missions information for those from the UK and around the world as well. http://www.oscar.org.uk

Christian Research Institute Switzerland -- A great Christian research site (text is in German) at http://www.cris.ch/

Ethnic Harvest -- an excellent site dedicated to the subject of ethnic groups in the USA. http://www.ethnicharvest.org/

US Census Data -- Points to a variety of Web sites from which to get USA Census data at http://geography.miningco.com/education/geography/msub7.htm

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