Resources List

Kenneth Cracknell and Susan White

• An Introduction to World Methodism (Cambridge University Press 2005)  
  There are 75 million Methodists in over 130 countries today. This is the first book to treat Methodism as a global religious tradition, examining its rich diversity as well as the core beliefs that all Methodists share. It also considers the contribution of Methodism to ecumenical and inter-religious relations.

Joy Fox  

• Excellent Women, 1870-1970: The Female Role in Missionary Service in Angels and Impudent Women (Wesley Historical Society 2007)

Deborah Gaitskell  

• Mediating Methodist Mission in the Twentieth Century: Black and White Women Leaders in South Africa's Transvaal in Angels and Impudent Women

Margaret Jones  

• 'The active duties . proper to her station': Women and Mission(s) in Wesleyan Methodism, 1813-1858 in Protestant Nonconformity and Christian Missions (Paternoster 2014)

John Pritchard  

• Women's Work: Mary Batchelor to Muriel Stennett in Angels and Impudent Women
• The 1857 Indian Rebellion and its Impact on the Wesleyan Mission in Protestant Nonconformity and Christian Missions
• Missions and Societies (Wesley Historical Society South-East Annual Lecture 2013)

Ian Welch

• The Methodist Chinese Mission (Australia)

John Young

• Edwin W Smith (1876-1957): a precursor of the modern professional era in Bible translation (delivered to a conference on The Bible in African and Asian Christianity at Liverpool Hope University, July 2016)

The oral history section at the British Library Sound Archive holds a collection of 110 taped interviews with missionaries telling their stories recorded 1994-2009, entitled the Methodist Church Oral Archive

Search the British Library Sound and Moving Image catalogue for collection reference C640 and use Contact Us to make a listening appointment. Search the list of missionaries whose interviews are recorded here.

Alongside the Methodist Church Oral Archive interviews, the British Library has a number of other collections which explore religious experience, see the overview of oral histories of religion and belief.

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