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Articles on mission-related topics
Gospel and Our Culture Network site includes newsletters and other articles continuing the engagement with Western culture begun by the late Lesslie Newbigin and links to other sites including the US Gospel and Our Culture site which has extensive materials.
Henry Martyn Centre site includes articles on many aspects of mission studies. HMC also hosts the pages of British and Irish Association for Mission Studies which include past newsletters and conference reports.
SEDOS exists to exchange information and views on mission in the (Catholic) Church. It has 200 articles - most in English - on all mission topics.
South African Missiological Society has some articles from Missionalia and its collection of abstracts of published works.
Wheaton College Department of Missions and Intercultural Studies has on-line material for Course 532 on contextualisation, including a bibliography, articles, and links to other relevant material.
See also Journals and periodicals
Books, bibliographies & libraries
Amazon.co.uk books on missions and missionary work
Eerdmans books on mission and evangelism
Fuller Theological Seminary Library (Fuller includes a School of World Mission)
International Association for Mission Studies site includes links to mission archives and bibliographies of mission studies
Orbis Books, major publishers of scholarly books on mission
School of Oriental and African Studies (specialises in mission archives)
Wheaton College contextualisation course bibliography
World Council of Churches library and publications
Yale University Library Research Guide section on "missions and world Christianity"
Discussion groups & forums
South African Missiological Society maintains discussion groups on Mission, Missiology, African Independent Churches, and Peacemakers
Documents & statements on mission
Catholic Missiological texts available online include: Ad Gentes, the Decree on the Church's Missionary Activity Lumen Gentium, Nostra Aetate, Gaudium et Spes (also Gaudium et Spes), Evangelii Nuntiandi, Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, Redemptoris Missio (also at Redemptoris Missio).
Lausanne Movement pages include the Lausanne Covenant, Manila Manifesto and other Evangelical documents.
Vatican Website makes many Catholic documents are available online that are relevant for mission studies. These include Vatican II documents, Papal documents (John Paul II, but others are available) Encyclicals, Apostolic Letters, etc. and Documents of the Roman Curia.
World Council of Churches self-understanding and policy documents
