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African Christianity Bibliography
African Studies Abstracts Online:  "succeeds the printed abstracts journal of the African Studies Centre Leiden, published since 1968, first as Documentatieblad, then as African Studies Abstracts (1994-2002). It provides a quarterly overview of journal articles and edited works on Africa in the field of the social sciences and the humanities available in the ASC library" (16 October 2006).
African Women's Bibliographic Database
Afriterra: the Cartographic Free Library
Akrofi-Christaller Memorial Centre for Mission Research and Applied Theology
Andrew F. Walls Centre for the Study of African and Asian Christianity, Liverpool Hope University
Basel Mission Picture Archive
Best of the Asian Studies WWW Monitor
Bibliography of Africana Periodical Database
Caribbean Abstracts:  "Abstracts of books and articles on the Caribbean published since 1989.  Search results may be displayed by year, relevance ranking, or sorted by subject; recently completed searches are saved in a list, and up to 100 abstracts at a time can be sent to an email address by selecting the "download" option" (Infomine).  Interface in Dutch only.  To see how this works, enter the term "Pentecostalism", select "alle woorden" (words anywhere), and click on "zoeken" (search) .
Center for Global Christianity and Mission, School of Theology, Boston University
Center for the Study of the Life and Work of William Carey, D.D. (1761-1834)
Centre for Missiology and World Christianity, Department of Theology, University of Birmingham
Centre for the Study of Christianity in China
Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh
China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI)USA Website here.
Christianity in Asia Project, Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies, University of Cambridge
COMPLUDOC:  similar to DIALNET, below.
Cumulative Bibliography of the International Review of Mission
Dayan Center Bibliographic Database:  click on Documentation, and follow the links.
DIALNET:  description at Theology Generally.
Dictionary of African Christian Biography
Digital South Asia Library
Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
Encyclopedia of Religion and Society, ed. Swatos
Ethnographic Thesaurus (American Folklore Society)
Excerpta Indonesica:  "abstracts in English of periodical articles and chapters in books on Indonesia in the fields of the social sciences and humanities".  Cf. Caribbean Abstracts, above, though the interface here is in English.
Gateway Service Center of Chinese Academic Journal Publications:  "free delivery of full-text Chinese-language academic publications to any researcher who cannot find the needed item in any U.S. libraries" (italics mine).
Gospel and Our Culture Network
Guide to the Indexing of South Asian Studies Periodicals
HLAS Online: Handbook of Latin American Studies: "a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook. Continuously published since 1936, the Handbook offers Latin Americanists an essential guide to available resources."  Recent tables of contents here, subject headings (e.g. Christianity, Catholicism, Pentecostalism) here.
Hartford Institute for Religion Research
Henry Martyn Centre for the Study of Mission and World Christianity
Historical atlas of South Asia, ed. Schwartzberg
Index New Zealand: "an index to journal articles and newspaper reports covering all aspects of New Zealand and South pacific political, economic social and cultural life. It indexes over 3,000 titles many of which are published in New Zealand" (Intute).
Institute for the Study of Asian Church and Culture (Manila)
International Religious Freedom Report
Internet Mission Photography Archive
Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC)
Library and Information Center, NIDA:  the Boolean interface to a major index to the journals of Thailand.  Interface in English, but content often in Thai, unfortunately.
Middle East Virtual Library (MENALIB)"The Middle East Virtual Library (MENALIB) is an information portal for Middle East and Islamic Studies. It provides access to online information and to digital records of printed and other offline media and thus supports the concept of a hybrid library for Middle East and Islamic Studies" (MENALIB homepage).
Missionary Periodicals Database
Mundus Gateway to Missionary Collections in the United Kingdom
Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity, Calvin College
Newbigen.net
Overseas Ministry Study Center
Oxford Centre for Mission Studies
Portal to Asian Internet Resources, Religion (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Quarterly Index of African Periodical Literature (Library of Congress)
Researching World Christianity: Doctoral Dissertations on Mission since 1900
Ricci 21st Century Roundtable on the History of Christianity in China Database
Savifa: Virtual Library South Asia (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg)
School of Intercultural Studies, Fuller Theological Seminary
SESRIC: Statistical, Economic and Social Research (and Training Centre) for Islamic Countries:  offers a Statistics Database, among other things..
Southeast Asian Serials Index
Theology and Popular Culture Gateway
World Council of Churches
 

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