Ghana: Paveway Consult Archives

• Mission Share(d) Digital Archives

• Gemeenschap

• Educational

• Church Archive, Religiuous Archives, Institutional Archives

A central methodological element of the project is the systematic analysis of written and visual materials that have emerged in the context of Protestant missionary and partnership work between Austria and Ghana since the 1950s. These include, in particular:
• Missionary magazines, parish newsletters, annual reports, and donation folders from Austria and Switzerland (EAWM, Basel Mission)
• Church publications, conference documents, and programs from Ghana (PCG, women's organizations, partner congregations)

This project is dedicated to the analysis of self-images and images of others in Protestant missionary practice between Austria and Ghana. It focuses on theological, cultural and social anthropological, and contemporary historical perspectives, which are interwoven within the framework of an interdisciplinary, historically and decolonially reflective research project.

• University of Vienna: African Studies, Protestant Theology, Religious Studies, Cultural and Social Anthropology, Institute of Educational Science (contact via Leo, Vanessa, Maria)
• Archive of the Basel Mission (contact via Maria)
• Archive of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana (contact via Elvis)
• Archive of the Evangelical Church in Austria (contact: Johannes Leitner)
• Austrian Protestant Topothek (contact: Johannes Leitner)
• Akrofi-Christaller Institute of Theology, Mission and Culture (contact via Desiree or Maria via EMS)
• Bread for the World (contact via Maria)

Elvis Kofi Kwarteng, Administrator

Virtual

• Oral histories and testimonies from Ghanaian Christians, missionaries, diaspora communities, and participants in cultural exchange programmes.
• Church and institutional records from both Ghana (e.g., Presbyterian Church of Ghana, women’s groups, educational institutions) and Austria (e.g., Evangelical Association of World Mission, Basel Mission Archive).
• Multimedia collections, including photographs, letters, publications, audio recordings, and videos.
• Narrative and scholarly reflections that contextualize materials within broader decolonial and historical frameworks

It examines how actors who were involved in missionary contexts or who came into contact with them in various ways remember, describe, and locate themselves and their counterparts – and how these perspectives have changed over the course of more than seven decades, across cultural and geographical boundaries.

Always Open

January 2025

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