The Moravian Brethren in a Time of Transition: A Socio-Economic Analysis of a Religious Community in Eighteenth-Century Saxony

by Australian National University and Christina Petterson

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004319468
• ISBN13: 9789004319462
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 392 Pages