Moravians came to Pennsylvania in 1740 as missionaries to the Indians and as members of the Moravian Church were required to write an autobiography summing up their lives. This work is a collection of 18th-century Moravian spiritual narratives written by women.
Moravians came to Pennsylvania in 1740 as missionaries to the Indians and as members of the Moravian Church were required to write an autobiography su...
This volume is a collection of essays on various notions of the human state during the Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment period in Germany. The book includes articles on Madame de Stael, Herder and India, Kant and race, Nicholas von Zinzendorf, Lichtenberg, the Brothers Grimm, and Humboldt.
This volume is a collection of essays on various notions of the human state during the Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment period in Germany. The boo...
Masculinity, Senses, Spirit brings together current work by leading scholars in the fields of gender studies, religion, history, and cultural studies to examine the complex interrelationship between gender, sexuality, and the realms of the spirit and the senses in the Atlantic world from the Eighteenth century to the present.
Masculinity, Senses, Spirit brings together current work by leading scholars in the fields of gender studies, religion, history, and cultural studies ...
Dating back to 1785, the Moravian "Instructions for the Choir Helpers" contain detailed advice for the spiritual counselors of the men, women, and children in Moravian congregations on how to address concerns about one's body and soul. In this volume, Katherine Faull presents an annotated, translated edition of the original German manuscript.
In monthly "speakings"--regularly scheduled dialogues between the choir helper and individual church members to determine whether the congregant could be admitted to communion--men and women received spiritual guidance on topics as varied as the...
Dating back to 1785, the Moravian "Instructions for the Choir Helpers" contain detailed advice for the spiritual counselors of the men, women, and ...
