Jon Miller

Missionary Zeal and Institutional Control (eBook, PDF)

Organizational Contradictions in the Basel Mission on the Gold Coast 1828-1917

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136876189
• Artikelnr.: 41009014

Autorenporträt

Authored by Miller, Jon

Inhaltsangabe

Part I
Evangelical Missions and Social Change Part II
The Participants Part III
Authority and Discipline Part IV
Contradictions and Their Consequences Part V
Accounting for Organizational Persistence Part VI
Afterword: The Basel Mission, the Presbyterian Church, and Ghana since 1918 by Paul Jenkins