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. Also included are two dozen photographs, a foreword by Richard V. Pierard, and an afterword by Paul Jenkins.
| Foreword | ||
| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| 1 | Evangelical Missions and Social Change | 1 |
| 2 | The Participants | 35 |
| 3 | Authority and Discipline | 81 |
| 4 | Contradictions and Their Consequences | 123 |
| 5 | Accounting for Organizational Persistence | 161 |
| Afterword: The Basel Mission, the Presbyterian Church, and Ghana since 1918 | 195 | |
| Methodological Appendix | 223 | |
| Bibliography | 231 | |
| Index | 247 |
Overview
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 ...