Pietism and Community in Europe and North America, 1650-1850
Biographical note
Jonathan Strom, Ph.D. (1996) in Religion, University of Chicago, is Associate Professor of Church History at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University. He has published widely on the late Reformation and Pietism, including Orthodoxy and Reform: The Clergy in Seventeenth Century Rostock (Tübingen, 1999).
Editorial Board
Subseries Editors:
Joris van Eijnatten & Fred van Lieburg
Joris van Eijnatten & Fred van Lieburg
Readership
Those interested in religious and cultural history, early modern history, Pietism, revivalism, religion in America, as well as the history of Christianity in Germany and Scandinavia
Table of contents
Preface
Jonathan Strom
Introduction
Hans Schneider
Understanding the Church – Issues of Pietist Ecclesiology
Wolfgang Breul
Marriage and Marriage-Criticism in Pietism: Philipp Jakob Spener, Gottfried Arnold, and Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf
Marcus Meier
The “Little Church” of Johann Amos Comenius and Philipp Jakob Spener:
Approaches to Church Reform with a Comprehensive Social Perspective
Douglas H. Shantz
Communal Diversity in Radical German Pietism: Contrasting Notions of Community in Conrad Bröske and Johann Henrich Reitz
Benjamin Marschke
"Wir Halenser"
The Understanding of Insiders and Outsiders among Halle Pietists in Prussia under Frederick William I (1713-1740)
Thomas P. Bach
G.A. Francke and the Halle Communication Network: Protection, Politics, and Piety
Gerald MacDonald
Pietism as a Threat to the Social Order: Pietist Communities in Jena, 1727-1729
Lutz Greisiger
Israel in the Church and the Church in Israel: The Formation of Jewish Christian Communities as a Proselytising Strategy within and outside the German Pietist Mission to the Jews of the Eighteenth Century
Gisela Mettele
Identities across Borders—The Moravian Brethren as a Global Community
Paul Peucker
Pink, White, and Blue: Function and Meaning of the Colored Choir Ribbons with the Moravians
Alexander Pyrges
Network Clusters and Symbolic Communities: Communitalization in the Eighteenth-Century Protestant Atlantic World
James Van Horn Melton
The Pastor and the Schoolmaster: Language, Dissent, and the Struggle over Slavery in Colonial Ebenezer
Alice T. Ott
Community in “Companies”: The Conventicles of George Rapp’s Harmony Society compared to those in Württemberg Pietism and the Brüderunität
Andre Swanström
Gustaf Gisselkors, Jacob Kärmäki and the final stages of Ostrobothnian Separatism
Arne Bugge Amundsen
Haugeanism between Liberalism and Traditionalism in Norway, 1796-1845
Anders Jarlert
Pietism and Community in Magnus Friedrich Roos’s Dialogue Books
Samuel Koehne
Pietism as Societal Solution: The Foundation of the Korntal Brethren (Korntaler Brüdergemeinde)
Hartmut Lehmann
The Communities of Pietists as Challenge and as Opportunity in the Old World and the New
Index
List of Contributors
Jonathan Strom
Introduction
Hans Schneider
Understanding the Church – Issues of Pietist Ecclesiology
Wolfgang Breul
Marriage and Marriage-Criticism in Pietism: Philipp Jakob Spener, Gottfried Arnold, and Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf
Marcus Meier
The “Little Church” of Johann Amos Comenius and Philipp Jakob Spener:
Approaches to Church Reform with a Comprehensive Social Perspective
Douglas H. Shantz
Communal Diversity in Radical German Pietism: Contrasting Notions of Community in Conrad Bröske and Johann Henrich Reitz
Benjamin Marschke
"Wir Halenser"
The Understanding of Insiders and Outsiders among Halle Pietists in Prussia under Frederick William I (1713-1740)
Thomas P. Bach
G.A. Francke and the Halle Communication Network: Protection, Politics, and Piety
Gerald MacDonald
Pietism as a Threat to the Social Order: Pietist Communities in Jena, 1727-1729
Lutz Greisiger
Israel in the Church and the Church in Israel: The Formation of Jewish Christian Communities as a Proselytising Strategy within and outside the German Pietist Mission to the Jews of the Eighteenth Century
Gisela Mettele
Identities across Borders—The Moravian Brethren as a Global Community
Paul Peucker
Pink, White, and Blue: Function and Meaning of the Colored Choir Ribbons with the Moravians
Alexander Pyrges
Network Clusters and Symbolic Communities: Communitalization in the Eighteenth-Century Protestant Atlantic World
James Van Horn Melton
The Pastor and the Schoolmaster: Language, Dissent, and the Struggle over Slavery in Colonial Ebenezer
Alice T. Ott
Community in “Companies”: The Conventicles of George Rapp’s Harmony Society compared to those in Württemberg Pietism and the Brüderunität
Andre Swanström
Gustaf Gisselkors, Jacob Kärmäki and the final stages of Ostrobothnian Separatism
Arne Bugge Amundsen
Haugeanism between Liberalism and Traditionalism in Norway, 1796-1845
Anders Jarlert
Pietism and Community in Magnus Friedrich Roos’s Dialogue Books
Samuel Koehne
Pietism as Societal Solution: The Foundation of the Korntal Brethren (Korntaler Brüdergemeinde)
Hartmut Lehmann
The Communities of Pietists as Challenge and as Opportunity in the Old World and the New
Index
List of Contributors
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