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Title

Pious pursuits : German Moravians in the Atlantic World / edited by Michele Gillespie and Robert Beachy.

Publication

New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.

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Additional Authors

• Gillespie, Michele.
• Beachy, Robert.

Description

vi, 267 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

European expansion & global interaction ; v. 7

Uniform Title

European expansion and global interaction ; v. 7.

Subject

• Moravians > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-256) and index.

Contents

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.

Call Number

JFE 08-758

ISBN

• 9781845453398 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 1845453395 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007003687

OCLC

82471182

Title

Pious pursuits : German Moravians in the Atlantic World / edited by Michele Gillespie and Robert Beachy.

Imprint

New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.

Series

European expansion & global interaction ; v. 7

European expansion and global interaction ; v. 7.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-256) and index.

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Table of contents only

Added Author

Gillespie, Michele.

Beachy, Robert.

Research Call Number

JFE 08-758