The Moravian Brethren in a Time of Transition

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The Moravian Brethren in a Time of Transition is written by Christina Petterson and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004319476 (ISBN 10) and 9789004319479 (ISBN 13).

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 become central to liberal ideology as the Moravians negotiate the transition from feudal society to early capitalism. As such The Moravian Brethren in a Time of Transition combines archival analysis with socio-economic change.