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Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry Records, 1879-1940

Summary Information

At a Glance

Bib ID 4492660 View CLIO record
Creator(s) Hocking, William Ernest, 1873-1966; Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry
Title Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry Records, 1879-1940
Physical Description 33 boxes (33 boxes)
Language(s) English .
Additional Description http://library.columbia.edu/content/dam/libraryweb/locations/burke/fa/mrl/ldpd_4492660.pdf
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Description

Scope and content

Laymens Foreign Missions Inquiry (LFMI); Institute of Social and Religious Research; Commission of Appraisal; National Committee for Promotion of LFMI; Modern Missions Movement; Movement for World Christianity; National Committee for Christian Education in China; Commission on Christian Education in Japan; YMCA in China. Topics include church and education, economics, medical work, women, and social, industrial, and religious backgrounds of India, Burma, China, and Japan. Report Re-Thinking Missions and its reception. Notes, manuscript reports, printed materials; missionary personnel; returned interview forms; surveys of pastors, missionaries, and medical professionals.

General Note

Part of Missionary Research Library Collection : Ecumenical/World Mission

In Archives.

Using the Collection

Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Letters, statements, clippings, articles, addresses.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary

Processing Information

Letters, statements, clippings, articles, addresses Cataloged Lynn A. Grove 08/03/88.

Subject Headings

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Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry. Commission of Appraisal Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Missions -- Societies, etc Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Went, Stanley Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID