TY - BOOK ID - 134614705 TI - The Moravian Brethren in a Time of Transition : A Socio-Economic Analysis of a Religious Community in Eighteenth-Century Saxony PY - 2021 SN - 9789004319479 9789004319462 PB - Leiden; Boston : BRILL DB - UniCat KW - Moravians KW - North Carolina KW - Economic conditions KW - History KW - Customs and practices KW - Herrnhut (Germany) KW - Church history KW - Social life and customs UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134614705 AB - 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. ER -