Missionary education in West Africa: a study of pedagogical ambition

The history of the North German Mission Society (established 1836 in Hamburg) and its activity on the West African coast (from 1847 onwards among the Ewe, in what is now Ghana and Togo where it was and still is known as the ‘Bremen Mission’) mirrors neatly the various phases of the idea of ‘mission’...

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Main Author: Ustorf, Werner (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge 2011
In: Journal of beliefs and values
Year: 2011, Volume: 32, Issue: 2, Pages: 235-246
Further subjects:B Inculturation
B Education
B West Africa
B Franz Michael Zahn
B Mission (international law
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