In the middle of the Great Awakening, a group of religious radicals called Moravians came to North America from Germany to pursue ambitious missionary goals. How did the Protestant establishment react to the efforts of this group, which allowed women to preach, practiced alternative forms of marriage, sex, and family life, and believed Jesus could be female? Aaron Spencer Fogleman explains how these views, as well as the Moravians' missionary successes, provoked a vigorous response by Protestant authorities on both sides of the Atlantic.
Based on documents in German, Dutch, and...
In the middle of the Great Awakening, a group of religious radicals called Moravians came to North America from Germany to pursue ambitious mission...
Hopeful Journeys German Immigration, Settlement, and Political Culture in Colonial America, 1717-1775 Aaron Spencer Fogleman "A major contribution to our understanding of the re-peopling of America in the eighteenth century."--American Historical Review "A book that is accessible to both layman and specialist alike."--Journal of American History "The first comprehensive history of the settlement of Germans in the 1700s and how they influenced the economy, politics, and ways of life in the New World."--Pennsylvania In 1700, some 250,000 white and black inhabitants...
Hopeful Journeys German Immigration, Settlement, and Political Culture in Colonial America, 1717-1775 Aaron Spencer Fogleman "A major contribution to ...
Jean-Francois Reynier, a French Swiss Huguenot, and his wife, Maria Barbara Knoll, a Lutheran from the German territories, crossed the Atlantic several times and lived among Protestants, Jews, African slaves, and Native Americans from Suriname to New York and many places in between. While they preached to and doctored many Atlantic peoples in religious missions, revivals, and communal experiments, they encountered scandals, bouts of madness, and other turmoil, including within their own marriage. Aaron Spencer Fogleman's riveting narrative offers a lens through which to better understand how...
Jean-Francois Reynier, a French Swiss Huguenot, and his wife, Maria Barbara Knoll, a Lutheran from the German territories, crossed the Atlantic severa...
