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

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ISBN: 9780700717637 | 0700717633
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Copyright: 3/20/2003

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These studies explore the significant, yet often contested, impact of Christian missions around the world. Bringing together monographs by established and emerging scholars, collections of essays on themes in the history of missions, and new editions of seminal primary texts, this series proyides rich source material for studying the relation between religion and culture. Book jacket.

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Evangelical Missions and Social Change	p. 1
Overview of the Investigation	p. 7
The Participants	p. 7
Enthusiasm and Discipline	p. 8
Contradictions	p. 9
Persistence	p. 10
Historical and Cultural Context	p. 11
Origins of the Basel Mission	p. 13
Organizational Trouble	p. 18
The Lasting Impact of the Mission	p. 25
Connections	p. 32
The Participants	p. 35
Class Collaboration for the Sake of Religion	p. 35
The Membership	p. 37
The Leadership	p. 38
Origins of the Rank and File	p. 45
Upward Mobility	p. 54
Marriage and Social Mobility	p. 60
Consolidation of Gains	p. 66
Children of the Early Missionaries	p. 67
Grandchildren of the Early Missionaries	p. 69
The Children of the Prewar Cohort	p. 70
Elective Affinities and Social Change	p. 72
Elite Interests	p. 72
Rank-and-File Gains	p. 74
Unintended Consequences	p. 76
Authority and Discipline	p. 81
Building a Structure	p. 86
Inherited Charisma and Pious Emotional Attachment	p. 91
Status Privilege and the Weight of Tradition	p. 96
Bureaucratic Obligations and Legal-Contractual Ties	p. 102
Social Control: Supervision and Surveillance	p. 109
Confession and Hierarchical Oversight	p. 110
Mutual Watching	p. 110
The Hermeneutics of Freedom and Control	p. 115
Conclusion	p. 120
Contradictions and Their Consequences	p. 123
The Relationship between Creativity and Deviance	p. 124
Andreas Riis	p. 129
Simon Suss	p. 136
Johannes Zimmermann	p. 141
Strategic Deviance in Perspective: Uncertainty, Charisma, and Nonconformity	p. 151
Surveillance and the Erosion of Solidarity	p. 154
Johannes Henke	p. 155
Friedrich Schiedt	p. 156
Accounting for Organizational Persistence	p. 161
Institutionalized Contradictions	p. 162
Ordnung Muss Sein! Fulfilling the Law of Christ	p. 168
Accountability and the "Freedom to Obey"	p. 173
Commonalities with Other Organizations	p. 178
Conclusion	p. 183
Missions and the Social Order	p. 185
Class Collaboration	p. 185
Social Mobility and Change in the Class Structure	p. 186
Women and Men in the Missionary Movement	p. 187
The Convergence (or Divergence) of Organizational Forms	p. 189
Consensus, Conflict, and Change	p. 190
Missions as Agents of Change and Resistance in the Colonial World	p. 191
Afterword: The Basel Mission, the Presbyterian Church, and Ghana since 1918	p. 195
Narrative Summary: The Basel Mission and Ghana, 1914-1999	p. 200
The Influence of Nineteenth-Century Basel Mission Forms of Organization since 1918	p. 209
Change in the Post-1918 Basel Mission in Europe	p. 218
Conclusion	p. 221
Methodological Appendix	p. 223
Archival Sources	p. 223
A Note on Research Strategy	p. 227
Bibliography	p. 231
Index	p. 247
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