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

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

Petterson, Christina

Paperback

Series: Historical Materialism

Religion General General SociologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1642597775
ISBN13: 9781642597776
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: Sep 13 2022
Pages: 378
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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.

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