Hiérarchie et obéissance dans les missions protestantes allemandes au XIXe siècle : le cas de la Mission de Bâle en Inde (1830-1870)

Obedience was considered an important value in the nineteenth century in Pietist circles. The demand for obedience was justified both secularly and religiously; in the sense of the imitatio Christi, the faith of the individual person was to be proven…