The Moravian Brethren in a Time of Transition
A Socio-Economic Analysis of a Religious Community in Eighteenth-Century Saxony
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Haymarket Books
Published:13th Sep '22
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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 became central to liberal ideology, corresponding to the Moravian negotiation of the transition from feudal society to early capitalism.
ISBN: 9781642597776
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378 pages