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This work describes systematically how the collaboration between Pietism and the Prussian state not only led to an increase in the latter's power but also laid the cultural basis for the subsequent political modernization of Germany.

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Preface; Introduction; 1. The German territorial state in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; 2. Reformed confessionalism and the reign of the Great Elector; 3. The nature of the pre-1713 Hohenzollern state; 4. Lutheran confessionalism; 5. Spenerian Pietism; 6. From Spener to Francke; 7. Halle Pietism I: ideology and indoctrination; 8. Halle Pietism II: growth and crisis; 9. Pietist-Hohenzollern collaboration; 10. The impact of Pietist pedagogy on the Prussian army and bureaucracy; 11. Civilian mobilization and economic development during the reign of Frederick William I; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Pietism and the Making of EighteenthCentury Prussia

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: 11/2/2006 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780521030120, 978-0521030120
      ISBN10: 0521030129

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This work describes systematically how the collaboration between Pietism and the Prussian state not only led to an increase in the latter's power but also laid the cultural basis for the subsequent political modernization of Germany.

      Table of Contents
      Preface; Introduction; 1. The German territorial state in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; 2. Reformed confessionalism and the reign of the Great Elector; 3. The nature of the pre-1713 Hohenzollern state; 4. Lutheran confessionalism; 5. Spenerian Pietism; 6. From Spener to Francke; 7. Halle Pietism I: ideology and indoctrination; 8. Halle Pietism II: growth and crisis; 9. Pietist-Hohenzollern collaboration; 10. The impact of Pietist pedagogy on the Prussian army and bureaucracy; 11. Civilian mobilization and economic development during the reign of Frederick William I; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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