Pious pursuits
Subtitle: German Moravians in the Atlantic World
By: edited by Michele Gillespie and Robert Beachy.
Contributors: Gillespie, Michele.; Beachy, Robert.
Series: European expansion & global interaction -- v. 7
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9781845453398
Subjects: Moravians -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-256) and index.
Table of contents: title: The birth of moravianism : confession and culture; title: Imperial communities / Mack Walker; title: Manuscript missions in the age of print : Moravian community in the Atlantic world / Robert Beachy; title: Deep in the side of Jesus : the persistence of Zinzendorfian piety in colonial America / Craig D. Atwood; title: Moravian physicians and their medicine in colonial North America : European models and colonial reality / Renate Wilson; title: Moravian culture and society : identity and assimilation; title: Fashion passion : the rhetoric of dress within the eighteenth-century Moravian Brethren / Elisabeth Sommer; title: New birth in a new land : evangelical culture and the creation of an American identity / S. Scott Rohrer; title: "Commerce that the Lord could sanctify and bless" : Moravian participation in transatlantic trade, 1740-1760 / Katherine Carté Engel; title: Piety and profit : Moravians in the North Carolina backcountry market, 1770-1810 / Emily Conrad Beaver; title: Moravians, the market and a new order in Salem / Michael Shirley; title: Race and gender in the Moravian Church : a Protestant exceptionalism?; title: "No one should lust for power ... women least of all" : dismantling female leadership among eighteenth-century Moravians / Beverly P. Smaby; title: The role of the pastor's wife in the pioneering generation of Protestant German-speaking clergy in the American colonies / Marianne S. Wokeck; title: Unlikely sisters : Cherokee and Moravian women in the early nineteenth century / Anna Smith; title: Moravian missions in times of emancipation : conversion of slaves in Suriname during the nineteenth century / Ellen Klinkers; title: Slavery, race, and the global fellowship : religious radicals confront the modern age / Jon Sensbach; title: Conclusion; title: Moravians and the challenge of writing global history of diasporic Christianity / A.G. Roeber.