Christina Petterson

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...

Drawing on unpublished archival material, this volume compares Moravian economic practice in three different mission-settings. It demonstrates how Moravian practices evolved during the 18th century as part of a globalising world and economy. Delivering in-depth analysis of the far-reaching and deep-seated effects of missionary activity on indigenous communities and social relations, it explores how different economic contexts impacted the missionaries’...