Metadata: Papers of the International Association for Religious Freedom
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- University of Southampton Special Collections
- Holding institution (official language):
- University of Southampton Special Collections
- Postal address:
- Hartley Library, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ
- Phone number:
- 02380 592721
- Web address:
- https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archives
- Email:
- archives@soton.ac.uk
- Reference number:
- MS 256 A986
- Title:
- Papers of the International Association for Religious Freedom
- Title (official language):
- Papers of the International Association for Religious Freedom
- Creator/accumulator:
- International Association for Religious Freedom
- Date(s):
- 1898/ 1992
- Date note:
- circa 1900/ circa 1990
- Language:
- English
- Dutch; Flemish
- German
- Japanese
- Extent:
- 69.3 linear metres: 600 boxes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Audio
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This collection comprises: administrative papers: files of correspondence, triennial congress papers, periodicals, photographs, films and financial records; papers of the Dutch office, from the 1920s onwards, containing material relating to the rise of Nazism and anti-Semitism in Europe.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The International Association for Religious Freedom was founded in Boston, Massachusetts, in May 1900 and the International Council of Unitarian and Other Liberal Religious Thinkers and Workers. In 1910 in became the International Congress of Free Christians and Other Religious Liberals and in 1930, at Arnhem, was reconstituted as the International Association for Liberal Christianity and Religious Freedom. Groups from other Christian traditions joined the Association from 1950 onwards; the reference to Christianity in its title was revised and the present name was adopted in 1969. The aims of the Association are: to promote the development of religious life in which freedom of conscience is an essential element; to promote mutual understanding and co-operation; to promote tolerance in culture and religion; to maintain links with and between individuals and organisations striving for international understanding, co-operation and tolerance; to promote development aid. The Association has consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). It has links with United Nations non-governmental advisory groups.
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Jewish-Christian relations
- Access, restrictions:
- Access to the archive requires a prior written appointment. https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archives/about/access.page
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archives/cataloguedatabases/webguide1.page
- Yerusha Network member:
- University of Southampton Special Collections