Invitation to a Digital Dugnad
Hilde Løvdal Stephens
If you’re like me, money for research is tight and any digitized archival material that is easily accessible online is priceless. So, I invite you to be part of a digital dugnad in an effort to gather a list of online primary sources on American religion.
So what's a dugnad? A Norwegian term, dugnad is something like voluntary, unpaid community work.
But it’s so much more. It’s about connections and about being useful. A dugnad is a collective effort. Any kind of association—churches, sports clubs, scouting groups, and neighborhood organizations—rely on the dugnad to raise money and to keep the day-to-day things up and running.
And then, of course, there’s usually coffee and cake. (Home-made cake, that is. A store-bought cake is, well, frowned upon.)
Sans coffee and cake, let's start the digital dugnad. Let’s dig up our favorite primary sources that can be useful for both research and teaching. Give us your online gems in the comment section.
Michael Altman listed some useful collections here. There's also some useful material in the comments.
Anyway, here's my contribution:
Free will Baptists
Assemblies of God
International Bulletin of Mission Research
Southern Baptist Convention
Billy Graham Center Archives
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association
The Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches
Adventists
Adventist Ministry Magazine
Religion in film, popular culture
A big cheer for all the hard working archivists out there who have made all this available!
If you’re like me, money for research is tight and any digitized archival material that is easily accessible online is priceless. So, I invite you to be part of a digital dugnad in an effort to gather a list of online primary sources on American religion.
So what's a dugnad? A Norwegian term, dugnad is something like voluntary, unpaid community work.
But it’s so much more. It’s about connections and about being useful. A dugnad is a collective effort. Any kind of association—churches, sports clubs, scouting groups, and neighborhood organizations—rely on the dugnad to raise money and to keep the day-to-day things up and running.
And then, of course, there’s usually coffee and cake. (Home-made cake, that is. A store-bought cake is, well, frowned upon.)
Sans coffee and cake, let's start the digital dugnad. Let’s dig up our favorite primary sources that can be useful for both research and teaching. Give us your online gems in the comment section.
Michael Altman listed some useful collections here. There's also some useful material in the comments.
Anyway, here's my contribution:
Free will Baptists
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| From the Free Will Baptist Contact, 1953. |
Assemblies of God
International Bulletin of Mission Research
Southern Baptist Convention
Billy Graham Center Archives
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association
The Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches
Adventists
Adventist Ministry Magazine
Religion in film, popular culture
Comments
Hathitrust, which is accessible even without a university subscription. I found some great material on there related to some recent research on the Wesleyan Methodists: http://tinyurl.com/gsvo9n8
The Presbyterian Magazine (1820s) on Google Books http://tinyurl.com/he3z6wh
Alexander Campbell's Millennial Harbinger (1840s) on Google Books http://tinyurl.com/huc8bvu
The Latter Day Saints and Millennial Star (1840s, 50s, and 1871) on Google Books http://tinyurl.com/zh4vao3
Not so closely related, but worth a mention. I just saw that the NAACP's The Crisis is also available in full view on Google Books. http://tinyurl.com/jqefjqk
The Christian and Missionary Alliance "Alliance Weekly: -- https://www.cmalliance.org/resources/archives/
Digital Mennonite Periodicals (including "Gospel Herald") -- http://libraryguides.ambs.edu/digital_mennonite_periodicals
American Jewish Committee -- http://ajcarchives.org/main.php
For nineteenth century stuff, the Christian Recorder is digitized and available a number of places.
I wish there was some master list of all the journals and denominational magazines that are out Google Books in full view.
One other one. This is the Southern Baptist Biblical Recorder out of North Carolina. The good folks at the Southern Bapt Library and Archive told me about it. http://tinyurl.com/ze86c5c The run is from 1834 to 1970. That is, stretching from one plaid-pants decade to another.
-Joshua Paddison
http://rparchives.org/