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Blacks --- Blacks. --- Herrnhutters. --- Missions. --- Moravians --- Moravians --- Zending. --- Missions. --- Missions. --- Moravian Church --- Missions --- United States Virgin Islands --- United States Virgin Islands. --- Church history.

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Scholars of American history and folk life will find this book a valuable addition to literature on community history, social change, and historical methods. Church historians will benefit from its in-depth study of secularization on a personal level, and it will be of keen interest to members of the Moravian Church.

Moravians --- History. --- Bethlehem (Pa.) --- Church history. --- American History. --- American Studies. --- Books of Regional Interest. --- Sociology.

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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.

Moravians --- North Carolina --- Economic conditions --- History --- Customs and practices --- Herrnhut (Germany) --- Church history --- Social life and customs

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The Moravians, a Protestant sect founded in 1727 by Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf and based in Germany, were key players in the rise of international evangelicalism. In 1741, after planting communities on the frontiers of empires throughout the Atlantic world, they settled the communitarian enclave of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in order to spread the Gospel to thousands of nearby colonists and Native Americans. In time, the Moravians became some of early America's most successful missionaries. Such vast projects demanded vast sums. Bethlehem's Moravians supported their work through financial savvy and an efficient brand of communalism. Moravian commercial networks, stretching from the Pennsylvania backcountry to Europe's financial capitals, also facilitated their efforts. Missionary outreach and commerce went hand in hand for this group, making it impossible to understand the Moravians' religious work without appreciating their sophisticated economic practices as well. Of course, making money in a manner that be fitted a Christian organization required considerable effort, but it was a balancing act that Moravian leaders embraced with vigor. Religion and Profit traces the Moravians' evolving mission projects, their strategies for supporting those missions, and their gradual integration into the society of eighteenth-century North America. Katherine Carté Engel demonstrates the complex influence Moravian religious life had on the group's economic practices, and argues that the imperial conflict between Euro-Americans and Native Americans, and not the growth of capitalism or a process of secularization, ultimately reconfigured the circumstances of missionary work for the Moravians, altering their religious lives and economic practices.

Moravians --- Religion --- Economics --- History. --- Economic aspects. --- Religious aspects. --- Bethlehem (Pa.) --- History --- Economic conditions --- American History. --- American Studies. --- Religion. --- Religious Studies.

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Moravians --- Moravians. --- History --- Moravian Church --- Moravian Historical Society --- Moravian Church. --- Moravian Historical Society. --- Brethren, United --- Hernhutters --- Herrnhuter --- Society of United Brethren --- Unitas Fratrum --- United Brethren --- Hussites --- Jednota bratrská --- United Brethren (Moravians) --- Evangelische Brüder-Unität --- Brüder-Unität --- Evangelische Broedergemeente --- Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine --- Brüdergemeine --- Mährische Brüder --- Evangelische Brüdergemeine --- Herrnhutter Broeders --- Bohemian Brethren --- Moravian Historical Society, Nazareth, Pa. --- Christianity --- Jednota bratrsk --- Church of the Brethren (Moravian) --- Moravian Brethren --- Renewed Church of the Brethren --- Union of Czech Brethren