Pious pursuits : German Moravians in the Atlantic World / edited by Michele Gillespie and Robert Beachy

Published:: New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.
Physical Description:: vi, 267 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators:: Gillespie, Michele
Beachy, Robert

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Series:

European expansion & global interaction ; v. 7

Contents:

The birth of moravianism : confession and culture -- Imperial communities / Mack Walker -- Manuscript missions in the age of print : Moravian community in the Atlantic world / Robert Beachy -- Deep in the side of Jesus : the persistence of Zinzendorfian piety in colonial America / Craig D. Atwood -- Moravian physicians and their medicine in colonial North America : European models and colonial reality / Renate Wilson -- Moravian culture and society : identity and assimilation -- Fashion passion : the rhetoric of dress within the eighteenth-century Moravian Brethren / Elisabeth Sommer -- New birth in a new land : evangelical culture and the creation of an American identity / S. Scott Rohrer -- "Commerce that the Lord could sanctify and bless" : Moravian participation in transatlantic trade, 1740-1760 / Katherine Carté Engel -- Piety and profit : Moravians in the North Carolina backcountry market, 1770-1810 / Emily Conrad Beaver -- Moravians, the market and a new order in Salem / Michael Shirley -- Race and gender in the Moravian Church : a Protestant exceptionalism? -- "No one should lust for power ... women least of all" : dismantling female leadership among eighteenth-century Moravians / Beverly P. Smaby -- The role of the pastor's wife in the pioneering generation of Protestant German-speaking clergy in the American colonies / Marianne S. Wokeck -- Unlikely sisters : Cherokee and Moravian women in the early nineteenth century / Anna Smith -- Moravian missions in times of emancipation : conversion of slaves in Suriname during the nineteenth century / Ellen Klinkers -- Slavery, race, and the global fellowship : religious radicals confront the modern age / Jon Sensbach -- Conclusion -- Moravians and the challenge of writing global history of diasporic Christianity / A.G. Roeber.

Subject(s):

Moravians—History

ISBN:

9781845453398 (hardback : alk. paper)
1845453395 (hardback : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-256) and index.

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