Sale!

Religion and Profit: Moravians in Early America (Early American Studies)

Amazon.com Price:  $17.95 (as of 12/04/2019 07:19 PST- Details)

Categories: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Description

The Moravians, a Protestant sect founded in 1727 by Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf and based in Germany, were key players in the upward push of international evangelicalism. In 1741, after planting communities at the frontiers of empires all the way through the Atlantic world, they settled the communitarian enclave of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, with a purpose to spread the Gospel to thousands of nearby colonists and Native Americans. In time, the Moravians became some of early The united states’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 not possible to be mindful the Moravians’ religious work without appreciating their sophisticated economic practices as well. Of course, making a living in a manner that be fitted a Christian organization required considerable effort, but it used to be 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 The united states. Katherine Carté Engel demonstrates the complex influence Moravian religious life had at 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, in the long run reconfigured the circumstances of missionary work for the Moravians, altering their religious lives and economic practices.

Related products

Home » Shop » Books » Subjects » Arts and Photography » History and Criticism » History » Americas » United States » Colonial Period » Religion and Profit: Moravians in Early America (Early American Studies)

Recent Products