FULLER, CHARLES EDWARD, 1907- .
Papers, 1908-1988.
MANUSCRIPT NUMBER 246
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CITATION: Charles Edward Fuller Papers, MSS 246, Archives and
Manuscripts
Dept., Pitts Theology Library, Emory University.
Charles Edward Fuller was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on January 23, 1907 to John Charles and Elizabeth Kohn Fuller. He grew up in the Cheltenham township and graduated from Cheltenham High School in 1925. After graduating from Dickinson Seminary in 1926 he became a supply pastor in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He received his B.A. in Bible and Theology from Juniata College in 1936. In 1938 he received both a M.A. in History and Literature of Religion from Northwestern University and a M.Div. from Garrett Theological Seminary. Fuller completed his formal education with a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Northwestern University in 1955.
Fuller was a Methodist pastor and missionary as well as a scholar. He was received "on trial" in 1930 in the Central Pennsylvania Conference and into "full connection" in 1933. In the Central Pennsylvania Conference he served the charges of Riddlesburg and Burnt Cabins, and he served the Cherry Tree charge in the Western Pennsylvania Conference. Fuller also served charges in the Missouri East Conference in the 1950s. From 1939 to 1951 he served as a missionary in southeast Africa including Mozambique from 1939 to 1942, South Africa from 1942-1945, and Southern Rhodesia where he was Superintendent of Schools from 1947 to 1951. The Methodist missionary was also the associate editor of The Africa Christian Advocate during his tenure in Southern Rhodesia.
Except for brief assignments or visits to Africa during the 1960s, Fuller spent his career in the United States in academia. He was a professor of theology and anthropology at the Missouri School of Religion at the University of Missouri, Columbia from 1953 to 1964; a professor of anthropology at Scarritt College in Nashville, Tennessee, from 1964 to 1967; and a professor of anthropology at St. John's University from 1968 to 1972 where he was Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology from 1970 until his retirement at the end of 1972. Following his retirement Fuller was a visiting professor at Florida Southern College in Lakeland for seven years. He lived the remainder of his life in Rabun County, Georgia.
Fuller married Edna Marie Worthing on June 6, 1931 and had two children, Charles Edward, Jr. and Judith Anne. He died on March 17, 1990 in Clayton, Georgia.
This collection consists of writings by Charles Edward Fuller and others regarding missionaries in Africa, African anthropology, and social issues and political events in Africa. The collection also contains other writings by Fuller including sermons, essays, and dramas. Fuller collected African periodicals, especially those produced by the Methodist church, as well as other publications pertaining to missionary work in Africa. His subject files consist primarily of printed newsletters, articles from publications, printed letters from missionaries, and reports from various agencies. The bulk of the written material is from 1937 to 1980. Course material from Fuller's classes include some notes and syllabi but the bulk of this material consists of overhead transparencies, maps and other visual aids.
A major component of the collection is Fuller's photographic images
of Africa taken from the late 1940s through the 1960s. His slides
document places, cultures, people, worship and social functions,
plants,
and animals as well as vacations, family, and friends in the United
States.
Many of the slides document the activities of the United Methodist
Church
in south Africa. Among the specific countries and places where
photographic
images were taken are Botswana, Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, Inhambane
in
Mozambique, and South Africa. The slides are numbered according
to
the original unit in which each group was housed, i.e., carousel, slide
box, or loose in a paper bag. Each unique grouping or unit was
assigned
a number. Handwritten slide listings that appeared to accompany a
unit of slides are identified with the unit number and housed in a
separate
folder, however, researchers should be aware that many of the listings
do not seem to correspond with the images in the unit. A detailed
slide listing is available in the repository.
CONTAINER LISTING
BOX/FOLDER DESCRIPTION DATES
Course material:
21/1 Africa n.d.
21/2 [Africa] 1971, n.d.
21/3 [Anthropology] - [Family relationships] n.d.
Maps:
21/4 Africa for class use n.d.
21/5 Africa climate and geography 1966
21/6 Africa - Colonial rulers n.d.
21/7 Southern Africa cultures 1968
21/8 Africa language families 1970
21/9 Africa - Outline n.d.
21/10 Peoples of Africa 1968-1973
21/11 Southern Africa peoples of Zambia 1973
21/12 Africa and races 1970
21/13 Tribal map of Africa [fragile] n.d.
21/14 Veg./Culture 1924-1958
21/15 Africa - Miscellaneous 1936-1966
21/16 Africa - Miscellaneous 1949-1969
21/17 Africa - Miscellaneous 1966-1967
Overhead transparency graphics:
21/18 Economies of Africa n.d.
21/19 African elevations n.d.
21/20 Geography of Africa n.d.
21/21 African kingdoms n.d.
21/22 African languages n.d.
21/23 [Africa maps] n.d.
22/1 Africa races n.d.
22/2 Africa regions n.d.
22/3 Africa in the world n.d.
22/4 [Anthropology] n.d.
22/5 [Anthropology] n.d.
22/6 [Anthropology] n.d.
22/7 [Anthropology] n.d.
22/8 Sociology/Anthropology n.d.
22/9 Syllabi and notes ca.1960-1970s
22/10 Miscellaneous 1955-1972
22/11 Miscellaneous n.d.
23 Filmstrips n.d.
23/1 Filmstrip aids n.d.
Photographic material:
1/4 Photographs ca. 1950s, n.d.
27 Slides ca. 1930s -1980
28 Slides ca. 1930s -1980
23/2 Slide listings n.d.
Publications:
Books:
2/1 Juta's modern teaching atlas for South
African schools n.d.
2/2 Ortmayer, Roger. Sing and pray and
shout hurray 1974
2/3 Strong, Kendrick. He actually lived
in our midst 1982
2/4 Catalog - Hunting World 1969
Clippings:
2/5 1940
2/6 1952
2/7 The Times British Colonies Review 1952
2/8 1953
2/9 1954-1957
2/10 1960-1966
2/11 1967
2/12 1968-1969
2/13 1973
2/14 n.d.
2/15 [Hymnal and catechism in Tonga (?)
language] 1945, n.d.
2/16 Journal articles 1937-1966
2/17 Journal articles - M. D. W. Jeffreys 1941-1953
Literature:
3/1 Africa 1956-1966
3/2 Botswana n.d.
3/3 British West Africa 1947-1951
3/4 China 1972
3/5 French colonies in Africa n.d.
Methodist Episcopal Church missions -
3/6 Inhambane 1908-ca. 1936
3/7 Methodist Church missions 1939-1968
3/8 United Methodist Church missions 1972-1974
3/9 Morocco 1951
3/10 Mozambique 1925-1964
3/11 Other denominations 1963, n.d.
4/1 Rhodesia ca. 1930s-1960s
4/2 South Africa ca. 1930s-1960s
4/3 Maps n.d.
4/4 Pamphlets 1936-1939
Periodicals:
4/5 Africa Christian Advocate 1943-1944
4/6 Africa Christian Advocate 1945-1948
4/7 Africa Christian Advocate 1949
4/8 Africa Christian Advocate 1952-1955
4/9 Africa Christian Advocate 1956-1959
4/10 Africa Christian Advocate 1960-1963
5/1 Africa Christian Advocate 1964-1966
5/2 Africa Christian Advocate 1967-1969
5/3 Africa Confidential 1967-1968
5/4 Africa Fact Sheet 1964, n.d.
5/5 Africa Letter 1963-1964
5/6 Africa Today 1959
5/7 African-American Bulletin 1955, 1969
5/8 African News 1954-1955
5/9 American Friends Service Committee
newsletter n.d.
5/10 American Universities Field Staff
newsletter 1955
5/11 Christian Century 1954
5/12 Christian Economics 1962-1967
5/13 Christianity and Crisis 1966
5/14 Christianity Today 1964
5/15 Cultural Events in Africa 1965
5/16 Cultural Events in Africa 1966
5/17 Cultural Events in Africa 1967
5/18 Cultural Events in Africa 1968
6/1 Cultural Events in Africa 1969
6/2 Focus 1950-1954
6/3 Foreign Affairs 1953
6/4 Inhambane Christian Advocate 1909-1920
6/5 Maryknoll 1954
6/6 [Missionary newsletters] 1953-1968
6/7 Rhodesia Calling 1964
6/8 Rhodesia Missionary Advocate 1909
6/9 South Africa Missionary Advocate 1922
6/10 South Africa Missionary Advocate 1923
6/11 South Africa Missionary Advocate 1924
6/12 South Africa Missionary Advocate 1938-1939
6/13 South Africa Missionary Advocate 1940-1942
6/14 Southern African Sentinel 1954
6/15 Standard Book Review 1966
6/16 Toward Freedom 1953-1954
6/17 WUS [World University Service]
in Action 1966
Publicity files:
1/5 Bulletins and programs 1951-1963, 1978
1/6 Clippings - Africa 1964, n.d.
1/7 Belle Methodist Church 1963-1964
1/8 Community Methodist Church 1957-1960
1/9 [Extension of Columbia city limits] 1953
1/10 Florida 1974-1975
1/11 "From the Bible" n.d.
1/12 Fuller and Gillet n.d.
1/13 Fuller family 1952-1955, n.d.
1/14 Missouri School of Religion 1953-1957
1/15 Optimists Club 1963, n.d.
1/16 Scarritt College 1964-1965
1/17 Speaking engagements 1953-1966, n.d.
1/18 Work in Africa 1938, 1961-1963
1/19 Miscellaneous 1974
1/20 Conferences, academic speaking engagements 1952-1971
1/21 Newsletter articles 1953-1964
1/22 Press releases 1956-1957, n.d.
Subject files:
7/1 Africa Mandates Commission n.d.
7/2-4 Africa Studies Association 1965-1970
7/5 Africa Studies Association - Newsletter 1967-1968
7/6 Africa Studies Association - Roster of
fellows 1966-1969
7/7 American-African Affairs Association, Inc.
special studies 1966-1968
7/8 American Committee to Keep Biafra Alive,
Inc. statement and newsletter 1967-1969
7/9 American Society of African Culture (AMSAC)1966
7/10 British Information Services reports 1948-1952
8/1 Department of State Background Notes 1968-1973
8/2 Department of State. Bureau of Intelligence
and Research 1965
8/3 Fisk University Program of African Studies 1943
8/4 [French Information Service] 1953-1954
8/5 Golden case (Rhodesia) 1962
8/6 [Influence of church in Africa] 1953-1961, n.d.
8/7 Institute for Current World Affairs report 1952-1953
8/8 International African Institute 1947
8/9 Kenya 1961, n.d.
8/10 Laymen's Movement for a Christian World n.d.
8/11 Methodist Church. Board of Missions -
Angola 1961-1962
8/12 Methodist Church. Board of Missions and
Church Extension. Division of Foreign
Missions 1952-1962
8/13 Methodist Church (Africa) Board of
Missions - Rhodesia and Southeast
Africa 1962-1967
8/14 Methodist Church in Africa miscellaneous
papers 1942-1968
9/1 National Council of the Churches of Christ
in the U.S.A. - Africa Committee
minutes 1952, 1965
9/2 Northwestern University - African Studies
Program 1952, 1970-1971
9/3-4 Portuguese Freedom Movements [Mozambique] 1963-1969
9/5 Rhodesia newsletters 1961-1970
9/6 South Africa, Republic of - Information
sheet n.d.
9/7 Southwest Africa Volunteer Enterprise,
Inc. 1964
9/8 Urbanization in Africa 1952-1954
9/9 United Methodist Church. Board of Global
Ministries 1977
9/10 United Nations Economic Commission for
Africa 1967
9/11 United States Committee for Refugees 1963-1967
9/12 World Understanding Workshop proceedings -
Kitwe, Zambia 1966 Sept 2-10
9/13 WUS Symposium on South Africa 1966
9/14 Zimbabwe Refugee and Prisoners Fund 1966
Writings by Fuller:
10/1 Africa - Ethnographic n.d.
10/2 Africa - Historical n.d.
10/3 Aging-Dying - Death n.d.
10/4 Aging-Dying - Aging among southern Africa
Bandu n.d.
[Articles and papers]:
10/5 [Articles] ca. 1950s, n.d.
10/6 [Botswana] ca. 1967
10/7 Botswana: one of Africa's newest
nations ca. 1960s
10/8 Mission n.d.
10/9 [Mission] n.d.
10/10 [Miscellaneous] n.d.
10/11 [Poverty] n.d.
10/12 [Upper Room] n.d.
10/13 [Biblical] - Saul and Paul n.d.
11/1 Biographical - [Don Gonçalo da Silveira] n.d.
11/2 Biographical - [Andre Fernandes] n.d.
11/3 Biographical - Biographical shorts n.d.
11/4 Children's stories n.d.
11/5 Children's stories n.d.
11/6 Children's stories - Spotty and
Children's [?] n.d.
11/7 Dissertation: Some conditioning factors
in the Development of the Bantu
religion 1938
Drama:
11/8 A backwoods Christmas n.d.
11/9 Behind the beginning of Methodism ca. 1980s
11/10 The Christ of the cross ca. 1980s
12/1 The expected one 1979
12/2 Flashback for Barnabas n.d.
12/3 The last words of Jesus n.d.
12/4 This free land of ours 1983
12/5 [Miscellaneous short pieces] n.d.
Fiction-Shorts:
12/6 An African witch's son n.d.
12/7 Devil's point jinx n.d.
12/8 The racket they couldn't beat n.d.
12/9 Short story ideas n.d.
12/10 Fiction - Juvenile n.d.
12/11 Fiction - Short - Mysteries n.d.
Historical novels and shorts - Religious:
12/12 The destroyer [Esther] n.d.
12/13 The kingdom and the glory n.d.
12/14 Mark n.d.
12/15 To see or not to see n.d.
12/16 [Letters to the editor] ca. 1980s
[Manuscripts - unpublished]:
13/1-14 Offering abundant life 1988
14/1 Final manuscript [Duplicate] 1988
14/2 God's word through Daniel to all ages 1986
14/3 Tell me the stories of Jesus 1987
14/4-9 Unidentified manuscript re: Africa n.d.
12/17 Novels - Secular - Precision Murder 1946
12/18 Novels - Precision Murder script 16 n.d.
15/1-3 Personality identity 1982, n.d.
Poems-songs:
15/4 Poems n.d.
15/5 Songs n.d.
15/6 [Fragments and miscellaneous] n.d.
15/7 Songs by others n.d.
Religion-sc study:
15/8 [Religion in culture] n.d.
15/9 Ancestors, spirits and mundane affairs
in China n.d.
15/10 An anthropological view of religion and
the projective n.d.
15/11 Religion as ethnic and non-ethnic n.d.
15/12 Religious or projective behavior in the
functional aspects of culture n.d.
15/13 An overview of religion as projective
behavior integral with cultural
forms, functions and meanings n.d.
15/14 The osmosis of Christianity and culture n.d.
15/15 [Anthropology and religion] n.d.
15/16 [Short essays] n.d.
15/17 [Miscellaneous] n.d.
Sermon material:
15/18 [Loose items] 1961, 1964, n.d.
15/19 Sermon material, poems, etc. n.d.
16/1 Sermon subjects n.d.
16/2 Sermons: General n.d.
16/3 Sermons: Missionary 1950s, n.d.
16/4 Worship 1957-1963, n.d.
Sermons:
16/5 n.d.
16/6 Complete ca. 1970s - 1980s
16/7 Ideas n.d.
16/8 [Parson's Corner] 1980-1982, n.d.
16/9 Short shorts - [A Communion meditation] n.d.
[Short essays]:
16/10 Alternatives to mammon? ca. 1980s
16/11 Dealing with the defamation of Jesus 1988
16/12 Early Methodism - American heritage ca. 1980s
16/13 John and other new testament writings ca. 1988
16/14 Mission n.d.
16/15 My cats have been persons ca. 1980s
16/16 The old class meeting 1984
16/17 What does the Bible say? ca. 1988
16/18 Worship n.d.
16/19 [Miscellaneous] n.d.
17/1 Miscellaneous shorts [1] n.d.
17/2 Miscellaneous shorts [2] n.d.
17/3 Miscellaneous shorts [3] n.d.
17/4 Miscellaneous shorts - ABC's of life n.d.
Theological:
17/5 [Evolution] 1966, n.d.
17/6 Matthew and the lordship of Christ n.d.
17/7 A third testament n.d.
17/8 [Miscellaneous] n.d.
17/9 [Miscellaneous] 1968
17/10 [Miscellaneous] n.d.
17/11 [Miscellaneous] - [incomplete] n.d.
17/12 [Miscellaneous writings in spiral bound
notebook] n.d.
24 Bibliography file by subject n.d.
Writings by others:
17/13 Clifford, G. M. Copied from the Igala
Chiefdom n.d.
17/14 Collins, Patricia. Early Batwana
history. . . an account given by elders
of the tribe in 1906 1971
17/15-16 Helgesson, Alf. The Tshwa response to
Christianity 1971
18/1 Marcus, Harold G. A Historian's view of
Bantu origins n.d.
18/2 Mills, Joan-Marie. The Origin and social
development of witchcraft and
divinatory processes in African
societies 1969
25 Murdock, George P. African cultural
summaries. Unpublished manuscript,
pp 1-1150 [card file] 1958
26 Murdock, George P. pp 1151-2339 [ 1958
18/3-5 Nelson, Kathryn W. Child rearing patterns
in a Lulua village of South Central
Congo 1968
18/6-7 Schirling, Robert C. Cross cultural
perspectives 1969
18/8 Simmons, Donald. The Effects of
Christianity on an African society n.d.
19/1 Africa: analysis of a continent n.d.
19/2 African Studies Association papers
delivered at November meeting 1967
19/3 American missionaries in Africa n.d.
19/4 Anthropology in the armed services 1958
19/5 South Africa MA thesis n.d.
19/6 525 Colonial Africa: Good papers on
general backgrounds n.d.
19/7 Course and history of Southern Africa
papers 1968
19/8-9 Student term papers 1966-1968
19/10-11 Symposium: African Refugee Problem papers 1967
20/1 [Tsonga Bible and Tswana Bible] 1967
20/2 [Miscellaneous papers] 1936-1970
Writings by unknown author:
20/3 Manuscript re: Gwambe missionaries n.d.
20/4 Unidentified fragments n.d.
Miscellaneous:
1/1 Biographical information - vita ca. 1950s-1980s
1/2 Correspondence 1952-1988
1/3 Miscellaneous 1937-1977
Oversize Oil painting on canvas: "Facsimile of
folder ancient Cave Painting in South
Rhodesia", by C.E. Fuller n.d.