The Berlin Society for Mission History aims:
- To promote knowledge about the value of the documents and
material objects that mission organisations have left behind beyond
the relatively narrow circle of mission researchers
- to stimulate and foster research in this area
- to work for the improvement of the conditions under which mission
sources are archived, in order to achieve appropriate storage and
maintenance conditions
- to support discussions on the cultural inheritance passed down from
once existing or still practising mission organisations
- to encourage German mission organisations to reappraise its own
history critically and self-critically
Practically this means:
- supporting and fostering measures to preserve and expand the
relevant archives and libraries
- to encourage and support research on the topics of international
history, ethnology, missiology, geography, linguistics and literary studies
etc., as well as of the relationships between Europe and overseas
countries
- publication of the results of such research through scientific
conferences, lectures, exhibitions and publications, as well as
- the establishment and maintenance of contacts with colleagues in
mission history within Germany as well as further afield, in order to
make the importance of mission sources (archives) better known and
to improve access to them
- In addition, the BSMS supports and assists in the transmission of private
collections to appropriate scientific archives
The Berlin Society for Mission History publishes the book series
“Missionsgeschichtliches Archiv” (Archive of mission history) and the
pamphlet series “Berliner Beiträge zur Missionsgeschichte” (Berlin
Contributions to Mission History) (see link to Publications).
1. About us
