The Social Control of Religious Zeal: A Study of Organizational Contradictions

by Jon Miller

How has the organization of the Christian missionary movement managed to persist for almost two centuries? Jon Miller covers the activities of the Evangelical Missionary Society of Basel, Switzerland, from 1828 to 1918 as it struggled to bring its Pietist religious beliefs to the people of the Gold Coast of West Africa. The mission gave different social classes an opportunity to interact in a way that would have been unlikely in Europe. Many of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813520606
• ISBN13: 9780813520605
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.