The Moravian Brethren in a Time of Transition: A Socio-economic Analysis of a Religious Community in Eighteenth-century Saxony

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‎Contents ‎Preface and Acknowledgements ‎Introductions ‎1. To the Marxists ‎2. To Moravian Scholars and Other Theologians ‎2.1. Class ‎2.2. Category of History ‎2.3. The Task of History ‎3. Outline of Chapters ‎Chapter 1. Introducing Choir Ideology ‎1. Introduction ‎2. From Choir Speech to Choir Ideology ‎3. What Is the Function of a Choir? ‎4. Methodology ‎5. The Choirs as Vanishing Mediators ‎Chapter 2. The Choirs – A Genealogy ‎1. Introduction ‎2. Overview of the Genealogy ‎2.1. Bonded Groups (Banden) ‎2.2. Associations ‎2.3. Classes ‎2.4. Choirs ‎3. Terminology and the Establishment of the Choirs ‎3.1. But First, the Diaries ‎3.2. 1736–40 ‎3.3. 1741 ‎3.4. 1742 ‎3.5. 1743 ‎3.6. 1744 ‎3.7. 1745 ‎4. The Day of All Choirs: 25 March ‎5. Choir Houses ‎5.1. Single Brothers’ House ‎5.2. Single Sisters’ House ‎5.3. Houses of the Widows and the Widowers ‎6. Conclusion ‎Chapter 3. Blood, Wounds, and Class ‎1. Introduction ‎2. Martin Dober’s Account ‎3. The Purge in Herrnhut ‎3.1. The Marriage Document ‎3.2. The Sex Scandal in 1744 ‎3.3. The Meeting Minutes ‎4. Blood, Wounds, and Authority ‎4.1. Blood and Wounds ‎4.2. Christ, the Chief Elder ‎5. Conclusion ‎Chapter 4. The Choir Speeches ‎1. Introduction ‎2. The Saviour: Individual and Collective ‎2.1. The Saviour ‎2.2. Stand ‎3. Children’s Choir ‎3.1. Relating to the Saviour ‎3.2. Seeing/Non-seeing ‎3.3. Language ‎4. Boys’ Choir ‎4.1. Relating to the Saviour ‎4.2. History, Gendering and Sexual Systems ‎5. Girls’ Choir ‎5.1. Relating to the Saviour ‎5.2. Presence ‎6. Single Brothers’ Choir ‎6.1. Relating to the Saviour ‎6.2. Governing One’s Body and the Role of the Corpse ‎7. Single Sisters’ Choir ‎7.1. Relating to the Saviour ‎7.2. Outer and Inner ‎8. Widowers’ Choir ‎8.1. Relating to the Saviour ‎8.2. Transition ‎9. Widows’ Choir ‎9.1. Relating to the Saviour ‎9.2. Choir ‎10. Conclusion ‎Chapter 5. Marriage and Community ‎1. Zinzendorf’s Idea of Marriage ‎2. The Problem ‎2.1. Three Comparisons ‎2.2. The Chapel ‎2.3. Married Couples’ Choir ‎2.4. 1755–56 and the Separated Choir Speeches ‎3. After the Synod ‎4. Conclusion ‎Chapter 6. The State and Its Subjects ‎1. Stand as Manifestation of Cultural Revolution ‎2. Gender ‎3. Class Society and the Civic Self ‎4. Individual and Subject ‎5. The Question of Religion ‎6. Conclusion ‎Chapter 7. Horizons of History ‎1. Times of Change ‎2. Agents of Change or Expressions of Change ‎3. Dimensions of History ‎Appendix 1 ‎Appendix 2 ‎References ‎Index