Description
Book SynopsisAn annotated and translated collection of instructions on religion, health, sexuality, and family life from the eighteenth-century Moravian Church.
Trade Review“Speaking to Body and Soul may be [Faull’s] most important work yet in terms of practical usefulness to clergy and average church members alike, because it shows how each member was spoken to and effectively cared for in the past.”
—Lanie Yaswinski Moravian Magazine
“This edition, a valuable resource for scholars and students alike, with high cross-disciplinary appeal, offers fresh perspectives for research on the interconnections among religious beliefs and sexuality as well as on the history of adolescence. It questions common assumptions concerning the relation between the sacred and the secular and offers a new focus on the surprising attention that was given to physical health and bodily concerns in the process of the formation of the religious self.”
—Gisela Mettele,University of Jena
“For Moravians, pastoral care meant care for body and soul. Katherine Faull has uncovered an intriguing set of eighteenth-century documents instructing Moravian leaders how to tend to the physical and spiritual needs of their sheep. These detailed instructions offer rare insight into the positive evaluation of each person’s individual needs based on their gender, age, and development.”
—Paul Peucker,author of A Time of Sifting: Mystical Marriage and the Crisis of Moravian Piety in the Eighteenth Century
Table of ContentsContents
Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
Chapter One: The Single Sisters
Introduction
Instructions
Chapter Two: The Single Brethren
Introduction
Instructions
Chapter Three: The Married Choir
Introduction
Instructions
Chapter Four: The Widows Choir
Introduction
Instructions
Glossary
Bibliography
Notes
Index
