A Register of Members of the Moravian Church
Author: Abraham Reincke
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Published: 1873
Total Pages: 188
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Author: Abraham Reincke
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Published: 1873
Total Pages: 188
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jane T. Merritt
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2011-01-01
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 0807899895
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining interactions between native Americans and whites in eighteenth-century Pennsylvania, Jane Merritt traces the emergence of race as the defining difference between these neighbors on the frontier. Before 1755, Indian and white communities in Pennsylvania shared a certain amount of interdependence. They traded skills and resources and found a common enemy in the colonial authorities, including the powerful Six Nations, who attempted to control them and the land they inhabited. Using innovative research in German Moravian records, among other sources, Merritt explores the cultural practices, social needs, gender dynamics, economic exigencies, and political forces that brought native Americans and Euramericans together in the first half of the eighteenth century. But as Merritt demonstrates, the tolerance and even cooperation that once marked relations between Indians and whites collapsed during the Seven Years' War. By the 1760s, as the white population increased, a stronger, nationalist identity emerged among both white and Indian populations, each calling for new territorial and political boundaries to separate their communities. Differences between Indians and whites--whether political, economic, social, religious, or ethnic--became increasingly characterized in racial terms, and the resulting animosity left an enduring legacy in Pennsylvania's colonial history.
Author: Moravian Historical Society
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Published: 1953
Total Pages: 456
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Katherine Carté Engel
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2013-03-26
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 081220185X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Abraham Reincke
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Published: 1949
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mabel Haller
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Published: 1953
Total Pages: 432
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Abraham Reincke
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Published: 1873
Total Pages: 144
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Published: 1876
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Abraham Reincke
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Published: 1873
Total Pages: 447
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 596
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