Pietism and Community in Europe and North America, 1650-1850

Jonathan Strom, Ph.D. (1996) in Religion, University of Chicago, is Associate Professor of Church History at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University. He has published widely on the late Reformation and Pietism, including Orthodoxy and Reform: The Clergy in Seventeenth Century Rostock (Tübingen, 1999).

• PrefaceJonathan StromIntroductionHans SchneiderUnderstanding the Church – Issues of Pietist EcclesiologyWolfgang BreulMarriage and Marriage-Criticism in Pietism: Philipp Jakob Spener, Gottfried Arnold, and Nikolaus Ludwig von ZinzendorfMarcus Meier The “Little Church” of Johann Amos Comenius and Philipp Jakob Spener: Approaches to Church Reform with a Comprehensive Social PerspectiveDouglas H. ShantzCommunal Diversity in Radical German Pietism: Contrasting Notions of Community in Conrad Bröske and Johann Henrich ReitzBenjamin Marschke"Wir Halenser"The Understanding of Insiders and Outsiders among Halle Pietists in Prussia under Frederick William I (1713-1740) Thomas P. BachG.A. Francke and the Halle Communication Network: Protection, Politics, and PietyGerald MacDonaldPietism as a Threat to the Social Order: Pietist Communities in Jena, 1727-1729Lutz GreisigerIsrael in the Church and the Church in Israel: The Formation of Jewish Christian Communities as a Proselytising Strategy within and outside the German Pietist Mission to the Jews of the Eighteenth CenturyGisela MetteleIdentities across Borders—The Moravian Brethren as a Global CommunityPaul PeuckerPink, White, and Blue: Function and Meaning of the Colored Choir Ribbons with the MoraviansAlexander PyrgesNetwork Clusters and Symbolic Communities: Communitalization in the Eighteenth-Century Protestant Atlantic WorldJames Van Horn MeltonThe Pastor and the Schoolmaster: Language, Dissent, and the Struggle over Slavery in Colonial EbenezerAlice T. OttCommunity in “Companies”: The Conventicles of George Rapp’s Harmony Society compared to those in Württemberg Pietism and the BrüderunitätAndre SwanströmGustaf Gisselkors, Jacob Kärmäki and the final stages of Ostrobothnian SeparatismArne Bugge AmundsenHaugeanism between Liberalism and Traditionalism in Norway, 1796-1845Anders JarlertPietism and Community in Magnus Friedrich Roos’s Dialogue BooksSamuel KoehnePietism as Societal Solution: The Foundation of the Korntal Brethren (Korntaler Brüdergemeinde)Hartmut LehmannThe Communities of Pietists as Challenge and as Opportunity in the Old World and the NewIndexList of Contributors