Interchangeable Bodies: International Marriage and Migration in the Eighteenth-Century Moravian Church

This article investigates the extent to which the theology and structure of marriage within the German Moravian Church functioned to connect and grow the Church as an international network across the Atlantic world in the eighteenth century. Specifically, it argues that Moravian conceptions of marri...

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Main Author: Douma-Kaelin, Kelly (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2021
In: Church history
Year: 2021, Volume: 90, Issue: 2, Pages: 348-366
Further subjects:B Moravian History
B Missionary Activity
B Early Modern Migration
B Marriage
B Women in the Atlantic World
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