Pietism and community in Europe and North America
Subtitle: 1650-1850
By: edited by Jonathan Strom
Series: Brill's series in church history -- v. 45; Religious history and culture series -- v. 4; Brill's series in church history -- v. 45.; Brill's series in church history -- v. 4.
Publisher: Brill; BRILL
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden, The Netherlands; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9789004186361
Subjects: Communities; Christianity; Pietism; History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Jonathan Strom; title: Understanding the church :; title: issues of Pietist ecclesiology  -- Hans Schneider; title: Marriage and marriage-criticism in Pietism :; title: Philipp Jakob Spener, Gottfried Arnold, and Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf  -- Wolfgang Breul; title: The "little church" of Johann Amos Comenius and Philipp Jakob Spener :; title: approaches to church reform with a comprehensive social perspective  -- Marcus Meier; title: Communal diversity in radical German Pietism :; title: contrasting notions of community in Conrad Bröske and Johann Henrich Reitz  -- Douglas H. Shantz; title: "Wir Halenser" :; title: the understanding of insiders and outsiders among Halle Pietists in Prussia under Frederick William I (1713-1740)  -- Benjamin Marschke; title: G.A. Francke and the Halle Communication Network :; title: protection, politics, and piety  -- Thomas P. Bach; title: Pietism as a threat to the social order :; title: Pietist communities in Jena 1727-1729  -- Gerald MacDonald; title: Israel in the church and the church in Israel :; title: the formation of Jewish Christian communities as a Proselytising strategy within and outside the German Pietist mission to the Jews of the eighteenth century  -- Lutz Greisiger; title: Identities across borders :; title: the Moravian Brethren as a global community  -- Gisela Mettele; title: Pink, White, and Blue :; title: function and meaning of the colored choir ribbons with the Moravians  -- Paul Peucker; title: Network clusters and symbolic communities :; title: communitalization in the eighteenth-century protestant Atlantic world  -- Alexander Pyrges; title: The pastor and the schoolmaster :; title: language, dissent, and the struggle over slavery in colonial Ebenezer  -- James Van Horn Melton; title: Community in "companies" :; title: the conventicles of George Rapp's Harmony Society compared to those in Württemberg Pietism and the Brüderunität  -- Alice T. Ott; title: Leadership and mysticism :; title: Gustaf Gisselkors, Jacob Kärmäki, and the final stages of Ostrobothnian separatism  -- Andre Swanström; title: Haugeanism between liberalism and traditionalism in Norway, 1796-1845  -- Arne Bugge Amundsen; title: Pietism and community in Magnus Friedrich Roos's dialogue books  -- Anders Jarlert; title: Pietism as societal solution :; title: the foundation of the Korntal Brethren (Korntaler Brüdergemeinde)  -- Samuel Koehne; title: The communities of Pietists as challenge and as opportunity in the Old World and the New -- Hartmut Lehmann.