LEADER 05078oam 2200709I 450 001 9910972971503321 005 20251116211209.0 010 $a1-136-87625-1 010 $a1-315-02965-0 010 $a1-136-87618-9 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315029658 035 $a(CKB)3710000000117204 035 $a(EBL)1694390 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001295005 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11711471 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001295005 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11337114 035 $a(PQKB)11407337 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1694390 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1694390 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10876499 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL613806 035 $a(OCoLC)880827151 035 $a(OCoLC)881034500 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB137710 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000117204 100 $a20180706d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMissionary zeal and institutional control $eorganizational contradictions in the Basel Mission on the Gold Coast, 1828-1917 /$fJon Miller 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2003. 215 $a1 online resource (293 p.) 225 1 $aStudies in the History of Christian Missions 300 $aRev. ed. of: The social control of religious zeal. 311 08$a1-138-40565-5 311 08$a0-7007-1763-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Evangelical Missions and Social Change; Overview of the Investigation; The Participants; Enthusiasm and Discipline; Contradictions; Persistence; Historical and Cultural Context; Origins of the Basel Mission; Organizational Trouble; The Lasting Impact of the Mission; Connections; 2. The Participants; Class Collaboration for the Sake of Religion; The Membership; The Leadership; Origins of the Rank and File; Upward Mobility; Marriage and Social Mobility; Consolidation of Gains 327 $aChildren of the Early MissionariesGrandchildren of the Early Missionaries; The Children of the Prewar Cohort; Elective Affinities and Social Change; Elite Interests; Rank-and-File Gains; Unintended Consequences; 3. Authority and Discipline; Building a Structure; Inherited Charisma and Pious Emotional Attachment; Status Privilege and the Weight of Tradition; Bureaucratic Obligations and Legal-Contractual Ties; Social Control: Supervision and Surveillance; Confession and Hierarchical Oversight; Mutual Watching; The Hermeneutics of Freedom and Control; Conclusion 327 $a4. Contradictions and Their ConsequencesThe Relationship between Creativity and Deviance; Andreas Riis; Simon Su?ss; Johannes Zimmermann; Strategic Deviance in Perspective: Uncertainty, Charisma, and Nonconformity; Surveillance and the Erosion of Solidarity; Johannes Henke; Friedrich Schiedt; 5. Accounting for Organizational Persistence; Institutionalized Contradictions; Ordnung Muss Sein! Fulfilling the Law of Christ; Accountability and the ""Freedom to Obey""; Commonalities with Other Organizations; Conclusion; Missions and the Social Order; Class Collaboration 327 $aSocial Mobility and Change in the Class StructureWomen and Men in the Missionary Movement; The Convergence (or Divergence) of Organizational Forms; Consensus, Conflict, and Change; Missions as Agents of Change and Resistance in the Colonial World; Afterword: The Basel Mission, the Presbyterian Church, and Ghana since 1918; Narrative Summary: The Basel Mission and Ghana, 1914-1999; The Influence of Nineteenth-Century Basel Mission Forms of Organization since 1918; Change in the Post-1918 Basel Mission in Europe; Conclusion; Methodological Appendix; Archival Sources; A Note on Research Strategy 327 $aBibliographyIndex 330 $aThis book is about the Basel Mission in the Gold Coast (now Ghana) before the First World War. Miller reconstructs the backgrounds and motivations of the mission's participants and describes the organizational structure that shaped their activities at home and abroad. He then traces some serious and recurrent internal problems to the commitment to difficult Pietist beliefs about authority and obedience. The organization survived those troubles and its impact on Ghana continued to grow, because the same biblical worldview that demanded extreme discipline also prepared the members of the mission 410 0$aStudies in the history of Christian missions. 606 $aMissions, Swiss$zGhana$xHistory 606 $aMissions, German$zGhana$xHistory 607 $aGhana$xChurch history 615 0$aMissions, Swiss$xHistory. 615 0$aMissions, German$xHistory. 676 $a306.6/660234940667 700 $aMiller$b Jon$f1940-$01268851 701 $aMiller$b Jon$f1940-$01268851 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910972971503321 996 $aMissionary zeal and institutional control$94490724 997 $aUNINA