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Journal of Moravian History

 

Contents of individual issues

issue 7, fall 2009

Articles

Felicity Jensz, Three Peculiarities of the Southern Australian Moravian Mission Field

Mark Everingham and Edwin Taylor, Encounters of Moravian Missionaries with Miskitu Autonomy and Land Claims in Nicaragua, 1894 to 1936

Paul Peucker, Zinzendorf’s Plan for a “Complete History of the True Church of Christ”

Peter Vogt, “Honor to the Side”: The Adoration of the Side Wound of Jesus in Eighteenth-Century Moravian Piety

Source Material

Katherine Faull, Mapping a Mission: The Origins of Golkowsky’s 1768 Map of Friedenshütten, Pennsylvania

Book Reviews

Katherine Carte Engel. Religion and Profit: Moravians in Early America, reviewed by A. G. Roeber

A. G. Roeber, ed. Ethnographies and Exchanges: Native Americans, Moravians, and Catholics in Early North America, reviewed by Rachel Wheeler

Rüdiger Kröger, ed. Johann Leonhard Dober und der Beginn der Herrnhuter Mission
and
Matthias Graf. Herrnhuter in Hessen: Der Herrnhaag in der Grafschaft Büdingen, reviewed by Jared S. Burkholder

 

 

issue 6, spring 2009

Articles

Paul M. Peucker, The Ideal of Primitive Christianity as a Source of Moravian Liturgical Practice

Geordan Hammond, Versions of Primitive Christianity: John Wesley’s Relations with the Moravians in Georgia, 1735-1737

Craig D. Atwood, Little Side Holes: Moravian Devotional Cards of the Mid-Eighteenth Century

Katherine Faull, Girl Talk: The Role of the “Speakings” in the Pastoral Care of the Older Girls’ Choir

Source Material

Peter Vogt, Zinzendorf's Encounter with the Jews. A fictitious dialogue from Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf’s Sonderbare Gespräche

Book Reviews

Katherine Carté Engel, The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America, by Thomas S. Kidd and
Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America, by Peter Silver.

Jared Burkholder, Neue Aspekte der Zinzendorf-Forschung, edited by Martin Brecht and Paul Peucker.

Gunlög Fur, Peoples of the River Valleys. The Odyssey of the Delaware Indians, by Amy C. Schutt.

Winfred A. Kohls, Die Herrnhuter in Russland. Ziel, Umfang und Ertrag ihrer Aktivitäten, by Otto Teigeler

Karen Y. Morrison, Archibald Monteath: Igbo, Jamaican, Moravian, by Maureen Warner-Lewis.

Carol A. Traupman-Carr, Music, Women, and Pianos in Antebellum Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: The Moravian Young Ladies’ Seminary, by Jewel Smith.


issue 5, fall 2008

Articles

Lanie Graf, John Frederick Hintz, Eighteenth-Century Moravian Instrument Maker, and the Use of the Cittern in Moravian Worship, 7-39

John Mason, Peter Brown of Bethlehem and the Revival of the Moravian Mission in Antigua 1770-1780, 41-67

Leland Ferguson, What Means “Gottes Acker”? Leading and Misleading Translations of Salem Records, 69-87

Robin Jackson, The Camphill Movement: The Moravian Dimension, 89-100

Book Reviews

Christopher E. Hendricks, Pious Pursuits: German Moravians in the Atlantic World, edited by Michele Gillespie and Robert Beachy

Katherine Carté Engel, Jesus is Female: Moravians and the Challenge of Radical Religion in Early America, by Aaron Spencer Fogleman

James W. Paxton, The Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees, edited by Rowena McClinton


issue 4, spring 2008

Article

Craig D. Atwood, Spangenberg: A Radical Pietist in Colonial America, 7-27

Research Note

Jonathan Yonan, Archbishop Herring, Anti-Catholicism, and the Moravian Church, 28-43

Primary Source Material

Julie Tomberlin Weber, “Our dear Mama”: Zinzendorf’s Memoir of Erdmuth Dorothea, 45-94

 


issue 3, fall 2007

Articles

Hedwig Richter, De-Nazification, Socialism and Solidarity: Re-Establishing International Relations in the Moravian Church after 1945, 7-29.

Colin Podmore, Zinzendorf and the English Moravians, 31-50.

Paul Peucker, The Songs of the Sifting: Understanding the Role of Bridal Mysticism in Moravian Piety in the late 1740s, 51-87.

Peter Vogt, Continuity and Change: The Moravian Music Tradition in Germany from 1865 to 1907, 89-99.

Primary Source Material

Vernon H. Nelson, John Valentine Haidt's Treatise On Art, 101-139.


 

issue 2, spring 2007

Articles

Gisela Mettele, Constructions of the Religious Self. Moravian Conversion and Transatlantic Communication, 7-35.

Nola Reed Knouse, Moravian Music: Introduction, Theme, and Variations, 36-54.

Helen Richards, Distant Garden: Moravian Missions and the Culture Of Slavery in the Danish West Indies, 1732-1848, 55-74.

David A. Schattschneider, A 250-Year-Old Mystery: the Disappearance of J. C. Erhardt in Labrador, 76-89.

Primary Source Materials

Craig D. Atwood, Catechism of the Bohemian Brethren, Translated and edited from the 1523 German version, 91-117.

Laurence Libin, The Memoirs of David Tannenberg, 118-134.


issue 1, Fall 2006

Articles

Peter Vogt, “Everywhere at Home”: The Eighteenth-Century Moravian Movement as a Transatlantic Religious Community, 7-29.

Craig Atwood, Understanding Zinzendorf’s Blood and Wounds Theology, 31-47.

Essay

Daniel Crews, The Writing of With Courage for the Future, 49-64.

 

Primary Sources

Paul Peucker, translation of a letter by David Nitschmann letter, New York Jan. 19, 1741, about the settlement of Moravians on the Lehigh River, 65-74.

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