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Religion on the margins : embodied Moravian pieties on the edges of Atlantic world empire / Benjamin M. Pietrenka

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Pietrenka, Benjamin M.
Published
University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2024]
Physical Description
xiv, 225 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Contents
Bringing the New World home -- Bloody bodies in Moravian travel diaries -- Heightened supernaturalism in mission pedagogies -- Engaging the indigenous supernatural -- Embodied lexicons of race -- Raced bodies on the mission field.
Summary
"Examines the believers and lay missionaries of the eighteenth-century Moravian Church, an influential group of radical German Pietists who worked to build a cosmopolitan community focused on an eschatological global vision while negotiating diverse cultures, unfamiliar configurations of power and authority, and the institution of slavery"--
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ISBN
9780271098821 hardcover
0271098821 hardcover
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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