| The Moravian Brethren in a Time of Transition: A Socio-Economic Analysis of a Religious Community in Eighteenth-Century Saxony Contributor(s): Petterson, Christina (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004319468 ISBN-13: 9789004319462 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $205.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2021 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology Of Religion - Religion | Institutions & Organizations - History | Europe - General |
| Physical Information: 392 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Based on hundreds of archival documents, Christina Petterson offers an in-depth analysis of the community building process and individual and collective subjectification practices of the Moravian Brethren in eighteenth-century Herrnhut, Eastern Germany between 1740 and 1760. The Moravian Brethren are a Protestant group, but Petterson demonstrates the relevance of their social experiments and practices for early modernity by drawing out the socio-economic layers of the archival material. In doing so, she provides a non-religious reading of categories that become central to liberal ideology as the Moravians negotiate the transition from feudal society to early capitalism. As such The Moravian Brethren in a Time of Transition combines archival analysis with socio-economic change. |
