(1) provide an introduction which includes the full citation of the document listed in the footnote or endnote (author, document title, book, date, page), the authors thesis, the genre of the document (history, testimony, sermon, doctrine, report, etc.), and a statement of the thesis that the student will develop or argue in the paper;(2) lodge your thesis about the document with within historiography about the subject or the interpretative approaches presented in class);(3) connect your thesis with your summary of the themes/topics of the document, including a discussion of the group/community which the author represented ;(4) connect your argument or thesis with your lodging of the document within its historical context (local, regional, national, continental, global), making connections between the selected document and the major events/ debates of the era in which it was written ;(5) conclusion and personal reflections;(6) citations (footnotes/endnotes; use journal articles or three different entries from reference sources in addition to the required texts; provide citations for all sources);(7) bibliography.Required Reading:
Dale Irvin and Scott Sunquist, History of the World Christian Movement, vol. 11: Modern Christianity from 1454-1800 (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books. 2012)Klaus Koschorke, et al, editors, A History of Christianity in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, 1450-1990: A Documentary Sourcebook (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2007)Henry Bettenson and Chris Maunder, editors, Documents of the Christian Church , 4th ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011)
Optional Texts Related to Geographic Regions:
Gonzalez, Justo and Ordina Gonzalez, Christianity in Latin America (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008)Hastings, Adrian. The Church in Africa: 1450-1950 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994)
Elizabeth Isichei, A History of Christianity in Africa: From Antiquity to the Present (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1995)
Robert Kaggwa, Christianity in Africa (Oxford, UK: Blackwell, forthcoming)
Moffett, Samuel Hugh. History of Christianity in Asia: 1500 To 1900 (New York: HarperCollins, 2005)
Peter C. Phan, ed., Christianities in Asia (Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2011