List of treaty companies

This is a list of treatise societies . Treatise companies or Sports Teams or associations ( engl. Tract Society , Sing. ) Are Christian associations for the mass distribution of religious tracts (see tract ). The list focuses on older tract societies. It does not claim to be up-to-date or complete.

list

• Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge , founded in 1698, London
• Society for Promoting Religious Knowledge among the Poor , founded 1750, London
• Tract and Colportage Society of Scotland , 1793
• Edinburgh Tract Society , 1796, Edinburgh
• Religious Tract Society , founded 1799, London, George Burder
• Christian association in northern Germany , founded in 1811, based in Eisleben
• Wuppertal tract society , founded in 1814, Barmen
• Main association for Christian edification writings in the Prussian states , 1814, Berlin
• Lower Saxony Society for the Dissemination of Christian Devotional Papers , 1820, Hamburg
• American Tract Society , 1825
• Association for the distribution of small religious writings for Lausanne and Esslingen , Esslingen
• Calw Tract Association , founded in 1829, Christian Gottlob Barth
• Calwer Publishing Association , 1833, later Stuttgart
• Association for the Dissemination of Christian Scriptures , 1835, Basel
• Evangelical Association , Strasbourg , 1839
• Christian Colportage Association , 1867, Grand Duchy of Baden
• German Protestant Book and Tract Society , 1879, Berlin
• International tract society , around 1887, Hamburg
• Missionswerk Werner Heukelbach , 1946/47, Wiedenest
• Missionary Work Voice of Faith , 1960, Constance
• International Tract Society , Hamburg
• Christian Tract Society , Kassel
• Watchtower Bible and Tract Society

literature

• Theodor Schäfer : " Treatise societies ", in: Realenzyklopädie für Protestantische Theologie und Kirche , 2nd edition, Volume 15: Sytliten - Tregelles, 1885, pp. 971–803 ( digitized version )
• Brian Stiller (Ed.): Evangelicals Around the World: A Global Handbook for the 21st Century. 2015 ( partial online view )

Web links

• Treatise societies ( Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon , Volume 19. Leipzig 1909, p. 660.)