{"product_id":"pious-pursuits-german-moravians-in-the-atlantic-world-9781845453398","title":"Pious Pursuits: German Moravians in the Atlantic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tRecent work on the history of migration and the Atlantic World has underscored the importance of the political economies of Europe, Africa, and the Americas in the eighteenth century, emphasizing the impact of these exchanges on political relations and state-building, and on economic structures, commerce, and wealth. Too little of this work explores culture and identity outside the Anglo-American context, especially as reflected through religious developments of radical Pietists and other Germans, the second largest group of migrants to the American colonies in the eighteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tThis volume offers a fresh vantage point from which to examine the Atlantic World. Quick to traverse the conventional political boundaries that divided European states and American colonies, Moravians departed their homeland to form new congregations in the most cosmopolitan European cities as well as on the North American frontier. Pious Pursuits explores the lives and beliefs of Atlantic World Moravians, as well as their communities and culture, and it provides a new framework for analysis of the Atlantic World that is comparative and transnational.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“In bringing these essays together into an argument for diasporic tensions, Pious Pursuits juxtaposes different scholarship on Moravians to expose the contrary nature of trying to synthesize a group of people who lived all over the world over multiple centuries. However, it is that range that makes this collection so good; it is hard to imagine any reader not finding at least a few essays relevant, new, and thought-provoking. And by systematically examining Moravians in the Atlantic world, Pious Pursuits provides a framework for future scholarship on other diasporic communities.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e ·  Journal of American Ethnic History \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eThis collection will be a valuable resource for scholars of the Atlantic world, the eighteenth century, and the history of religion\u003c\/em\u003e.”\u003cstrong\u003e  ·  German-Canadian Studies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e\"The present volume, with some highly original research, well written and widely focused, adds an important intercultural perspective to the Atlantic evangelicalism of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and is a very good starting point for further investigations.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eH-Atlantic\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"The reader who takes time to enjoy these essays will no doubt not only learn a lot about Moravians but also about the important role relatively small religious German communities played in a predominantly Anglo-American environment.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  H-Soz-u-Kult\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"... an excellent introduction to key themes of Moravian history and a good basis for further explorations.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  German Historical Institute London Bulletin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART I: THE BIRTH OF MORAVIANISM: CONFESSION AND CULTURE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e Imperial communities\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMack Walker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e Manuscript missions in the age of print: Moravian community in the Atlantic world\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eRobert Beachy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e Deep in the side of Jesus: The persistence of Zinzendorfian piety in colonial America\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eCraig D. Atwood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e Moravian physicians and their medicine in colonial North America: European models and colonial reality\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eRenate Wilson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART II: MORAVIAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY: IDENTITY AND ASSIMILATION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e Fashion passion: The rhetoric of dress within the eighteenth-century Moravian brethren\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eElisabeth Sommer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e New birth in a new land: evangelical culture and the creation of an American identity\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eS. Scott Rohrer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/b\u003e \"Commerce that the Lord could sanctify and bless\": Moravian participation in transatlantic trade, 1740–1760\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eKatherine Carté Engel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/b\u003e Piety and profit: Moravians in the North Carolina backcountry market, 1770–1810\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eEmily Conrad Beaver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/b\u003e Moravians, the market and a new order in Salem\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMichael Shirley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART III: RACE AND GENDER IN THE MORAVIAN CHURCH: A PROTESTANT EXCEPTIONALISM?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/b\u003e \"No one should lust for power... women least of all.\": Dismantling female leadership among eighteenth-century Moravians\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eBeverly P. Smaby\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/b\u003e The role of the pastor’s wife in the pioneering generation of protestant German-speaking clergy in the American colonies\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMarianne S. Wokeck\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/b\u003e Unlikely sisters: Cherokee and Moravian women in the early nineteenth-century\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eAnna Smith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/b\u003e Moravian missions in times of emancipation: Conversion of slaves in Surinam during the nineteenth-century\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eEllen Klinkers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 14.\u003c\/b\u003e Slavery, race, and the global fellowship: Religious radicals confront the modern age\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eJon Sensbach\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 15.\u003c\/b\u003e Conclusion: Moravians and the challenge of writing global history of Diasporic Christianity\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eA. G. 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