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

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

Miller, Jon
Pierard, Richard V.

Paperback

Series: Studies in the History of Christian Missions (Paperback)

Religion General General ChristianityGeneral Sociology

Publisher Price: $41.50

ISBN10: 0802860850
ISBN13: 9780802860859
Publisher: William B Eerdmans Pub Co
Published: Feb 7 2003
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.44
Language: English
In the historical literature on mission, this book stands out for its detailed examination of the organizational dynamics that gave shape - and brought enduring success - to the Evangelical Missionary Society at Basel. A first-rate account of the early Basel Mission on the Gold Coast of West Africa (present-day Ghana), this volume takes readers inside the mission itself, revealing its dynamic, though sometimes contradictory, methods of motivation and discipline and how they impacted effective evangelism both at home and abroad. Working from archival records, Jon Miller details the collaboration across class lines that made the mission possible, and he shows how basic pietist beliefs about authority and obedience were the source of both the mission's strengths and its most serious internal weaknesses. Also included are two dozen photographs, a foreword by Richard V. Pierard, and an afterword by Paul Jenkins.

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