Moravian Brethren in a Time of Transition

A Socio-Economic Analysis of a Religious Community in Eighteenth-Century Saxony

AvChristina Petterson

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

Based on hundreds of archival documents, Christina Petterson offers an in-depth analysis of the community building process and individual and collective subjectification practices of the Moravian Brethren in eighteenth-century Herrnhut, Eastern Germany, between 1740 and 1760.The Moravian Brethren are a Protestant group, but Petterson demonstrates the relevance of their social experiments and practices for early modernity by drawing out the socio-economic layers of the archival material. In doing so, she provides a non-religious reading of categories that became central to liberal ideology, corresponding to the Moravian negotiation of the transition from feudal society to early capitalism.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-09-13
Mått:152 x 228 x 24 mm
Vikt:574 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Historical Materialism
Antal sidor:378
Förlag:Haymarket Books
ISBN:9781642597776

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Christina Petterson is visiting research fellow at the Australian National University, School of Politics. She has published extensively on Christianity and socio-economics, and most recently co-edited Legacies of David Cranz’ Historie von Grönland (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).

Innehållsförteckning

Preface and AcknowledgementsIntroductions1 To the Marxists2 To Moravian Scholars and Other Theologians3 Outline of Chapters1 Introducing Choir Ideology1 Introduction2 From Choir Speech to Choir Ideology3 What Is the Function of a Choir?4 Methodology5 The Choirs as Vanishing Mediators2 The Choirs – A Genealogy1 Introduction2 Overview of the Genealogy3 Terminology and the Establishment of the Choirs4 The Day of All Choirs: 25 March5 Choir Houses6 Conclusion3 Blood, Wounds, and Class1 Introduction2 Martin Dober’s Account3 The Purge in Herrnhut4 Blood, Wounds, and Authority5 Conclusion4 The Choir Speeches1 Introduction2 The Saviour, Individual and Collective3 Children’s Choir4 Boys’ Choir5 Girls’ Choir6 Single Brothers’ Choir7 Single Sisters’ Choir8 Widowers’ Choir9 Widows’ Choir10 Conclusion5 Marriage and Community1 Zinzendorf’s Idea of Marriage2 The Problem3 After the Synod4 Conclusion6 The State and Its Subjects1 Stand as Manifestation of Cultural Revolution2 Gender3 Class Society and the Civic Self4 Individual and Subject5 The Question of Religion6 Conclusion7 Horizons of History1 Times of Change2 Agents of Change or Expressions of Change3 Dimensions of HistoryAppendix 1Appendix 2ReferencesIndex