Your Contribution

Do you receive missionary circulars and are not sure if you want to keep the collection?

Do you have missiological literature in your library that you no longer need?

Do you have letters from missionaries that may be of interest to a wider public?

You have valuable teaching or training documents and would like to make this useful to others?

Do you collect magazines and letters from missionary ministries and do you want to keep your collection meaningful?

You manage the estate of missionaries and do not know who is interested in the documents? We look forward to assisting you in collecting a variety of documents.

Make your collection available to us – we digitize it, get it for the long term and make it accessible to a wider audience. We also retain control over the material. Because some documents are confidential and not intended for the general public. We maintain this confidentiality.

Please contact us if you would like to provide us with your documents. You can also attach individual digital documents directly to your message.

Expert Advice and Promotion of missiological Work

The Institute for Protestant Missiology provides valuable material from missionary work and missiological research, which was collected, compressed and specifically retrievable for missiological research.

Our focus is on Germany from the 1970’s to 2016. In our archive slumber circular letters from missionaries from all over the world, unpublished lectures, lectures and conference papers, information brochures from missionary ministries, seminar papers by students and many other written witnesses of the missiological context.

Missionaries, missiological researchers, students, pastors and mission seekers will find a wealth of information from decades to today. Most of them exist digitally, but some are also in our well-stocked library.

With its expertise, the Institute is also available for research questions in the context of Protestant Missiology, theology, anthropology and sociology.

Whether you are simply browsing or searching specifically – you are heartily welcome to us.

Please write us

Our Concern

The Institute for Protestant Missiology collects and digitizes documents from culture, religion and the Christian work. Our goal is to create a broad research base: Digitally accessible and steadily growing. This gives us important research results and valuable practical experience and makes them usable for many.

The Institute for Protestant Missiology works in the field of Disability Studies. It has launched the network Disability Studies and Intercultural theology. Researchers with and without physical or mental limitations should link to it. We want to generate and promote research in the field of post-colonialism, gender studies and the processing and transformation of Christian development aid.

The Institute for Protestant Missiology is active in the field of Science to the Bible translation. The aim is to generate and promote research around first Bible translations (so-called missionary Bible translations) as well as Revisions and New Bible translations (in a context with existing Bible translations).

Because we are convinced: Missiology must be explored.

We are committed to opening up archives and making diverse material available, so that young researchers have an even better foundation and that missionaries are even better trained and prepared for their service. Journals are timeless news sources, newsletters from Christian workers, sustainable practice reports, seminar papers, content-rich information collections and materials from Christian development societies individual collections of high value. These are all treasures for eternity, which should not be lost in archives, but should be useful in practice.

That’s what we work for.

Board of Trustees

Thomas Mayer, VTR Verleger, Nürnberg.
Prof. Dr. Christoph Sauer, Südafrika.
Johannes Klapprodt (PhD cand.), Südafrika
Samuel Groß, wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Gießen
Prof. Dr. Dr. Klaus Fiedler, Malawi

Others about Us

An article from ideaSpektrum 5/2007 (PDF-idea-ueber-ifem)