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| ISBN: | 9781136876189
1136876189
1306825555
9781306825559
9781315029658
1315029650
9780700717637
9781136876325
1136876324
9781136876257
1136876251
9781138405653
1138405655
0700717633
9780700717637
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| Notes: | Originally published: 2003 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | 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.
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.
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| Other form: | Print version: Miller, Jon. Missionary Zeal and Institutional Control : Organizational Contradictions in the Basel Mission on the Gold Coast 1828-1917. Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, ©2014 9780700717637
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