Pious pursuits: German Moravians in the Atlantic World

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 --...

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Contributors: Gillespie, Michele 1960- (Editor) ; Beachy, Robert 1965- (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: New York Oxford Berghahn Books 2007
In: European expansion & global interaction (volume 7)
Year: 2007
Reviews:[Rezension von: Gillespie, Michele, Pious Pursuits: German Moravians in the Atlantic World] (2008) (Hendricks, Christopher E.)
Volumes / Articles:Show volumes/articles.
Series/Journal:European expansion & global interaction volume 7
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B North America / Herrnhuter / History
B History
B The Americas / Germans / Culture / Church life / History 1740-1850
B Woman
IxTheo Classification:KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KBQ North America
KDG Free church
RB Church office; congregation
Further subjects:B Conference program 2002 (Winston-Salem, NC)
B Moravians History
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Summary: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
Item Description:Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 249-256
ISBN:1845453395