The Moravian Brethren in a Time of Transition

A Socio-Economic Analysis of a Religious Community in Eighteenth-Century Saxony
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-31946-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 231, 380 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 775 g

Reihe: Historical Materialism Book Series

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 become central to liberal ideology as the Moravians negotiate the transition from feudal society to early capitalism. As such The Moravian Brethren in a Time of Transition combines archival analysis with socio-economic change.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Petterson, Christina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte Europäische Regional- & Stadtgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Regional- & Stadtgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introductions

1 To the Marxists

2 To Moravian Scholars and Other Theologians

3 Outline of Chapters

1 Introducing Choir Ideology

1 Introduction

2 From Choir Speech to Choir Ideology

3 What Is the Function of a Choir?

4 Methodology

5 The Choirs as Vanishing Mediators

2 The Choirs – A Genealogy

1 Introduction

2 Overview of the Genealogy

3 Terminology and the Establishment of the Choirs

4 The Day of All Choirs: 25 March

5 Choir Houses

6 Conclusion

3 Blood, Wounds, and Class

1 Introduction

2 Martin Dober’s Account

3 The Purge in Herrnhut

4 Blood, Wounds, and Authority

5 Conclusion

4 The Choir Speeches

1 Introduction

2 The Saviour, Individual and Collective

3 Children’s Choir

4 Boys’ Choir

5 Girls’ Choir

6 Single Brothers’ Choir

7 Single Sisters’ Choir

8 Widowers’ Choir

9 Widows’ Choir

10 Conclusion

5 Marriage and Community

1 Zinzendorf’s Idea of Marriage

2 The Problem

3 After the Synod

4 Conclusion

6 The State and Its Subjects

1 Stand as Manifestation of Cultural Revolution

2 Gender

3 Class Society and the Civic Self

4 Individual and Subject

5 The Question of Religion

6 Conclusion

7 Horizons of History

1 Times of Change

2 Agents of Change or Expressions of Change

3 Dimensions of History

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Christina Petterson, PhD (2011, Macquarie University), 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).