Self, Community, World: Moravian Education in a Transatlantic World

by Heikki Lempa

This book traces Moravian educational ideas and practices in the eighteenth century. A transnational fellowship rather than a nation state, the Moravians had established themselves by the early 1740s as an Atlantic community under the leadership of a German count, Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf. This cosmopolitanism, paralleled only in the aristocratic culture and the expanding network of Masonic lodges, became a natural, self-evident experience of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611460581
• ISBN13: 9781611460582
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Lehigh University Press
• Length: 300 Pages