Encounters in quest of Christian womanhood : the Basel Mission in pre- and early colonial Ghana /

Christianity has come to be a religion embraced especially by women and not least in Africa. This book provides one of the as yet rare case studies for the early stages of this development: how African women on the pre- and early colonial Gold Coast (Ghana) encountered Basel Mission Christianity, 18...

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Main Author: Sill, Ulrike.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Boston : Brill, 2010.

Series: Studies in Christian Mission 39.
Studies in Christian Mission Online, ISBN: 9789004322295.

Subjects:

Missions > Ghana > History > 19th century.

Christian women > Ghana > History > 19th century.

Evangelische Missionsgesellschaft in Basel > History > 19th century.

Ghana > Church history > 19th century.