ABSTRACT
In the two previous chapters we have looked into the relationship between missionaries and congregations from an organizational and ritual point of view. These aspects, while yielding a considerable amount of information, have not given us any idea of the regional variety nor of the importance of economic and social factors. Furthermore, the analysis has been more or less ‘static’, i.e. has not to any degree been concerned with the changes that occurred during the late nineteenth century. In the present chapter I shall attempt to remedy this deficiency. While it is not possible due to the nature of the source material to go into as much detail as I would wish, it will all the same be possible to draw some general conclusions.
