Speaking to Body and Soul

Speaking to Body and Soul may be [Faulls] most important work yet in terms of practical usefulness to clergy and average church members alike, because it shows how each member was spoken to and effectively cared for in the past. Lanie Yaswinski Moravian Magazine This edition, a valuable resource for scholars and students alike, with high cross-disciplinary appeal, offers fresh perspectives for research on the interconnections among religious beliefs and sexuality as well as on the history of adolescence. It questions common assumptions concerning the relation between the sacred and the secular and offers a new focus on the surprising attention that was given to physical health and bodily concerns in the process of the formation of the religious self. Gisela Mettele,University of Jena For Moravians, pastoral care meant care for body and soul. Katherine Faull has uncovered an intriguing set of eighteenth-century documents instructing Moravian leaders how to tend to the physical and spiritual needs of their sheep. These detailed instructions offer rare insight into the positive evaluation of each persons individual needs based on their gender, age, and development. Paul Peucker,author of A Time of Sifting: Mystical Marriage and the Crisis of Moravian Piety in the Eighteenth Century

Katherine M. Faull is Professor of German and Comparative Humanities at Bucknell University.

Contents Illustrations Preface Introduction Chapter One: The Single Sisters Introduction Instructions Chapter Two: The Single Brethren Introduction Instructions Chapter Three: The Married Choir Introduction Instructions Chapter Four: The Widows Choir Introduction Instructions Glossary Bibliography Notes Index