Missionary Zeal and Institutional Control: Organizational Contradictions in the Basel Mission on the Gold Coast 1828-1917

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Routledge, 22‏/05‏/2014 - 288 من الصفحات
This book is about the Basel Mission in the Gold Coast (now Ghana) before the First World War. Miller reconstructs the backgrounds and motivations of the mission's participants and describes the organizational structure that shaped their activities at home and abroad. He then traces some serious and recurrent internal problems to the commitment to difficult Pietist beliefs about authority and obedience. The organization survived those troubles and its impact on Ghana continued to grow, because the same biblical worldview that demanded extreme discipline also prepared the members of the mission community to sustain their efforts.
 

المحتوى

1 Evangelical Missions and Social Change
1
2 The Participants
35
3 Authority and Discipline
81
4 Contradictions and Their Consequences
123
5 Accounting for Organizational Persistence
161
The Basel Mission the Presbyterian Church and Ghana since 1918
195
Methodological Appendix
223
Bibliography
231
Index
247
حقوق النشر

طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات

عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة

نبذة عن المؤلف (2014)

Authored by Miller, Jon

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