Missionary Zeal and Institutional Control
Subtitle: Organizational Contradictions in the Basel Mission on the Gold Coast, 1828-1917 (Studies in the History of Christian Missions)
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published: February 7, 2003
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, MI
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780802860859
Subjects: Christianity; Religious mission & evangelism; Missions, Swiss; History; Religion - Church Life; Religion; Sociology of Religion; Christian Ministry - Missions; Religion / Missions & Missionary Work; Religion : Christianity - History - General; Ghana; Evangelische Missionsgesellsch; Evangelische Missionsgesellschaft in Basel; Missions, German
First sentence: In order to prove whether a [seminarian] is of God or whether he can be a missionary or not . . . it is necessary to smash him down mercilessly in order to determine conclusively whether he is capable of bearing the discipline. . . .
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Richard V. Pierard; title: Part one : Evangelical Missions and Social Change.; title: Overview of the Investigation; title: The Participants; title: Enthusiasm and Discipline; title: Contradictions; title: Persistence; title: Historical and Cultural Context; title: Origins of the Basel Mission; title: Organizational Trouble; title: The Lasting Impact of the Mission; title: Connections; title: Part two : The Participants.; title: Class Collaboration for the Sake of Religion; title: The Membership; title: The Leadership; title: Origins of the Rank and File; title: Upward Mobility; title: Marriage and Social Mobility; title: Consolidation of Gains; title: Children of the Early Missionaries; title: Grandchildren of the Early Missionaries; title: The Children of the Prewar Cohort; title: Elective Affinities and Social Change; title: Elite Interests; title: Rank-and-File Gains; title: Unintended Consequences; title: Part three : Authority and Discipline.; title: Building a Structure; title: Inherited Charisma and Pious Emotional Attachment; title: Status Privilege and the Weight of Tradition; title: Bureaucratic Obligations and Legal-Contractual Ties; title: Social Control : Supervision and Surveillance; title: Confession and Hierarchical Oversight; title: Mutual Watching; title: The Hermeneutics of Freedom and Control; title: Part four : Contradictions and Their Consequences.; title: The Relationship between Creativity and Deviance; title: Andreas Riis; title: Simon Suss; title: Johannes Zimmermann; title: Strategic Deviance in Perspective: Uncertainty, Charisma, and Nonconformity; title: Surveillance and the Erosion of Solidarity; title: Johannes Henke; title: Friedrich Schiedt; title: Part five : Accounting for Organizational Persistence.; title: Institutionalized Contradictions; title: Commonalities with other organizations; title: Conclusion; title: Afterword : The Basel Mission, the Presbyterian Church, and Ghana since 1918 / Paul Jenkins.; title: Narrative summary : the Basel Mission and Ghana, 1914-1999; title: The influence of nineteenth-century Basel Mission forms of organization since 1918; title: Change in the post-1918 Basel Mission in Europe; title: Conclusion; title: Methodological appendix.; title: Archival sources; title: A note on research strategy