Inhoudsopgave
List of abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I: THE BIRTH OF MORAVIANISM: CONFESSION AND CULTURE
Chapter 1. Imperial communities
Mack Walker
Chapter 2. Manuscript missions in the age of print: Moravian community in the Atlantic world
Robert Beachy
Chapter 3. Deep in the side of Jesus: The persistence of Zinzendorfian piety in colonial America
Craig D. Atwood
Chapter 4. Moravian physicians and their medicine in colonial North America: European models and colonial reality
Renate Wilson
PART II: MORAVIAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY: IDENTITY AND ASSIMILATION
Chapter 5. Fashion passion: The rhetoric of dress within the eighteenth-century Moravian brethren
Elisabeth Sommer
Chapter 6. New birth in a new land: evangelical culture and the creation of an American identity
S. Scott Rohrer
Chapter 7. ‘Commerce that the Lord could sanctify and bless’: Moravian participation in transatlantic trade, 1740–1760
Katherine Carté Engel
Chapter 8. Piety and profit: Moravians in the North Carolina backcountry market, 1770–1810
Emily Conrad Beaver
Chapter 9. Moravians, the market and a new order in Salem
Michael Shirley
PART III: RACE AND GENDER IN THE MORAVIAN CHURCH: A PROTESTANT EXCEPTIONALISM?
Chapter 10. ‘No one should lust for power… women least of all.’: Dismantling female leadership among eighteenth-century Moravians
Beverly P. Smaby
Chapter 11. The role of the pastor’s wife in the pioneering generation of protestant German-speaking clergy in the American colonies
Marianne S. Wokeck
Chapter 12. Unlikely sisters: Cherokee and Moravian women in the early nineteenth-century
Anna Smith
Chapter 13. Moravian missions in times of emancipation: Conversion of slaves in Surinam during the nineteenth-century
Ellen Klinkers
Chapter 14. Slavery, race, and the global fellowship: Religious radicals confront the modern age
Jon Sensbach
Chapter 15. Conclusion: Moravians and the challenge of writing global history of Diasporic Christianity
A. G. Roeber
Contributors
Selected Bibliography
Index
