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Publications to Aid in Research
Each of these reference publications should
be available through a library or a missions organization.
The Christian books may not be available from a secular
library but may be obtained through an interlibrary loan program.
This listing was compiled by Bob Williams.
Reference
Books & Journals:
At a Christian
college or university, look for the following:
·
Peoplesfile
Index
·
Unreached
Peoples Annuals
·
The Ethnologue
·
Lands and
Peoples encyclopedias
·
The World and
its Peoples encyclopedias
·
The World
Christian Encyclopedia
·
History of the
Expansion of Christianity, by Kenneth Scott Lattourette
·
Restricted
World Ministry Handbook, by Issachar
·
World
Directory of Missions Research and Information Centers
·
International
Bulletin of Missionary Research
·
US Mission
Handbook
·
UK Mission
Handbook
·
Encyclopedia
of Missions
·
Strongholds of
the 10/40 Window, by George Otis, Jr.
·
International
Journal of Frontier Missions
·
Evangelical
Missions Quarterly
At any college or university,
or large public library, look for:
·
National
Geographic Magazine Index
·
Encyclopedia
Britanica, Index Volume
·
Muslim Peoples,
Richard V. Weekes, Editor. This contains maps showing the general
location of Muslim groups and documents 190 ethnic and or
linguistic groups that are Muslim.
·
Peoples of the
Earth, 20 volumes published by Danbury Press (out of print).
·
Illustrated
Encyclopedia of Mankind, Marshall Cavendish Litd., publisher
·
Catholic
Encyclopedia
·
Subject Guide
to Books in Print
·
Linguistic
Bibliography, J. Beylsmit, editor
·
Library of
Congress Subject Headings. These large bound volumes show the
subject headings used in the card catalogue systems.
·
Machine
Readable Catalogue Fiche (MARC)
·
Background
Notes, US Department of State, Bureau of Public Affairs
·
Minority
Rights
·
Human
Relations Area Files (HRAF)
·
Asia Week
·
Encyclopedia
of the Third World, especially year books
Thanks to Bethany World Prayer Center for the above references.
Missions
Web Sites
AD2000
& Beyond Movement: Information about the Global Congress
on World Evangelization (GCOWE), Joshua Project 2000 (list of
unreached peoples), 10/40 Window, Adoption Guidance Program, plans
for the AD2000 movement in every country and in strategic cities:
http://www.ad2000.org.
AIMS / FINAL FOCUS: http://www.aims.org.
Arab World Ministries: http://awam.gospelcom.net/int/index.php/
Bethany
World Prayer Center http://www.ksafe.com/profiles/home.html.
A KEY resource for unreached peoples prayer profiles.
Brigada:
http://www.brigada.org.
Free Missions & General Christian interest e-mail
conferences . To
subscribe to the conference and to obtain general information, as
well as information on specific conferences within the brigada
network, send e-mail to hub@xc.org
with only the following words in the text of the message body:
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conferences
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CALEB Project: http://www.calebproject.org Information on unreached peoples and mobilization helps.
CB International: http://WWW.CBI.ORG/
Christian
Information Network: http://www.Christian-info.com.
Resources on PRAYER for unreached peoples.
DAWN Ministries: http://www.jesus.org.uk/dawn/
Ethnologue:
http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/ethnologue.html.
A catalog of the world’s languages, including information
on alternate names, number of speakers, location, dialects,
linguistic affiliation, and other sociolinguistic and demographic
information.
Frontiers: http://www.frontiers.org
Global Mapping International: http://www.gmi.org.
Global Missions Fellowship: http://www.gmf.org/
Gospel for Asia: http://www.gfa.org
Gospel Recordings Network: http://globalrecordings.net
Heart of God Ministries: http://www.heartofgod.com/
International
Bible Society http://www.gospelcom.net/ibs/
Jesus Film: http://www.jesusfilm.org
Jesus Film Languages Status:- http://www.jesusfilm.org/progress/translations.html
Latin America Mission: http://www.lam.org
Lausanne Movement Home Page: http://www.lausanne.org/
MARC: http://www.wvi.org/home.shtml
Mennonite Brethren Missions/Services: http://www.mbmsinternational.org/
Mission Aviation Fellowship: http://www.maf.org/
Mission Aviation Fellowship XC: http://www.grcomputing.net/
Mission to Unreached Peoples: http://www.mup.org/
Mission Training International (formerly Missionary Internship):
http://www.mti.org/
Mission 21 India:
http://www.missionindia.org
OC International: http://www.oci.org/
International (formerly Overseas Missionary Fellowship):
http://www.omf.org/
Pioneers: http://www.pioneers.org/
Presbyterian Frontier Fellowship: http://www.pff.net
SIM:
http://www.sim.org/
Slavic Gospel Association: http://www.sga.org/
Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL): http://www.sil.org/
Team Expansion: http://www.teamexpansion.org
Urbana Missions Conference: http://www.urbana.org/_today.cfm
/
Center for World Mission: http://www.USCWM.org
World Team: http://www.worldteam.org
World by 2000 (radio): http://www.wb2000.org
World Christian Internet Resources:
http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/christian-resources.html
Wycliffe Bible Translators: http://www.wycliffe.org/
World View Research Toolkit:
http://www.createinternational.com/index.php?site=contact
Youth With A Mission (YWAM): http://www.ywam.org/
Specific country and people group websites:
Wolof People: http://www.townbeacon.com/wolof/expanded%20profile.html
Eurasian Research Center:/http://eurasia-research.com/erc/homepage.htm
Other E-mail resources
Advance:
A free monthly missions newsletter with prayer requests and
praises. Request a
subscription from Mark Kelly.
E-mail: 70420.1057@Compuserve.com
Global
Glimpse: A free weekly e-mail news paragraph.
Request a subscription from:
jhanna@cproject.com
Global
Prayer Digest: Receive GPD free each day by e-mail.
Send the following message to e-mail:
<hub@xc.org> with the following message in the body:
subscribe brigada-pubs-globalprayerdigest.
Secular / General Web Sites
The Internet is a loose amalgam of thousands of computer networks
reaching millions of people all over the world.
For this reason, it is a useful tool for people group
research. However,
like any tool, it requires some level of expertise.
This guide presupposes you know the basics of accessing the
Internet, and the costs involved.
The purpose of this guide is simply to give you some help
in finding your way around, along with some starting places to
look for information on people groups.
Libraries
Eureka (an easy to use search service http://www.rlg.org/eureka.html
University of Maryland Information Database: http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/Diversity/
Government
and Political Sites
Country Studies/Area Handbooks: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
Library of Congress: http://lcweb.loc.gov/
US Census Bureau: http://www.census.gov/
CIA World Factbook: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
United Nations: http://www.un.org/
General Web Site Tools
Altavista: http://www.altavista.com/
Excite: http://www.excite.com/
Electric Library: http://ask.elibrary.com/
Four11 Internet White Pages: http://www.411.com
LookSmart: http://www.looksmart.com/
Lycos search engine: http://www.lycos.com/
Netscape Search: http://home.netscape.com/home/internet-search.html
WebCrawler: http://www.webcrawler.com
WhoWhere?: http://www.whowhere.com/
Yahoo search engine: http://www.yahoo.com
General Research Information
Aboriginal Studies Program:
http://www1.aiatsis.gov.au/aseda/specialproj/aseda/index.html
Amnesty International: http://www.amnesty.org/
Demographic and Population Studies:
http://demography.anu.edu.au/VirtualLibrary/
International Institute for Christian Studies: http://www.iics.com/
Social Science Gateway: http://www.sosig.ac.uk/
Anthropology
Anthropology and Archeology Net Resources/Stanford:
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/misc/antind.html
Center for Anthropology and Science Communications:
http://sciencesitescom.com/CASC/
WWW Virtual Library http://vlib.anthrotech.com/
World
Cultures
AFRICA
African Christianity & Missions:
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/religion/christianity-in-africa.html
African Libraries:
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Home_Page/WWW_Links.html
African Studies Home page for the University of Pennsylvania:
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/AS.html
ASIA
Aboriginal Studies Program:
http://www1.aiatsis.gov.au/aseda/specialproj/aseda/index.html
Across Pacific & Asia (Christian Sites): http://across.co.nz/
Afghanistan & the Asian Sub-Continent
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/mideast/cuvlm/Afghanistan.html
Asian Studies Network (Utexas): http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/index.html
Asian Studies/Links: http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html
Buddhist Studies: http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-Buddhism.html
Chinese News Digest Server: http://www.cnd.org/
China:
Society & Culture (Yahoo):
http://www.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/China/Society_and_Culture/
India Resources Links: http://www.india.com.ar/
Japan Missions Page (Pioneers): http://www.missionjapan.com/community/
Indonesian Information: http://www.indonesianet.com/hotlink.htm
Korean Churches & Organizations:
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~kevinlee/churches.html
Southeast Asian Archive: http://www.lib.uci.edu/libraries/collections/sea/sasian.html
EUROPE
Agape Europe OnLine: http://www.agapeeurope.org/
MIDDLE EAST
Arab World: http://www.arabland.com/
Egypt: http://www.memphis.edu/egypt/main.html
Iranian Christians International: http://www.iranchristians.org/
Jerusalem Mosaic: http://jeru.huji.ac.il/
FORMER USSR & CENTRAL ASIA
Tajikistan general information: http://www.angelfire.com/sd/tajikistanupdate/
Washington Post (Former USSR):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/exussr.htm
Window to Russia: http://www.wtr.ru/
World Map Collections
Excite Travel: http://directory.excite.com/travel
Lonely Planet (Travel Guides: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/
Perry-Castaneda
Library Map Collection:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Map_collection.html
World Maps site: http://sunsite.sut.ac.jp/multimed/pics/worldmaps
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