Religion and Profit : : Moravians in Early America / / Katherine Carté Engel.
The Moravians, a Protestant sect founded in 1727 by Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf and based in Germany, were key players in the rise of international evangelicalism. In 1741, after planting communities on the frontiers of empires throughout the Atlantic world, they settled the communitarian e...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 17 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- NOTE ON TERMINOLOGY
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1: The Pilgrims' Mission
- CHAPTER 2: Interconnected Worlds
- CHAPTER 3: Moravian Expansion in the Mid-Atlantic
- CHAPTER 4: The Moral Parameters of Economic Endeavor
- CHAPTER 5: Atlantic Currents: Global War and the Fate of Moravian Communalism
- CHAPTER 6: Two Revolutions: Ending the Oeconomy and Losing the Missions
- CHAPTER 7: A Change in Mission
- CHAPTER 8: Unraveled Strands
- Conclusion
- ABBREVIATIONS
- NOTES
- INDEX
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS