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ISSUE 10, SPRING 2011

Articles and Source Material

Paul Peucker, In the Blue Cabinet: Moravians, Marriage and Sex

Peter Vogt, Zinzendorf’s „Seventeen Points of Matrimony”: A Foundational Document on the Moravian Understanding of Marriage and Sexuality

Katherine Faull, Instructions for the Married People's Choir Helpers

Book Reviews

Truus Bouman-Komen. Bruderliebe und Feindeshaß. Eine Untersuchung von frühen Zinzendorf-Texten (1713-1727) in ihrem kirchengeschichtlichen Kontext
reviewed by Peter Vogt

S. Scott Rohrer. Wandering Souls: Protestant Migrations in America, 1630-1865
reviewed by Christopher E. Hendricks

Corinna Dally-Starna and William Starna, trans. and eds. Gideon’s People: Being a Chronicle of an American Indian Community in Colonial Connecticut and the Moravian Missionaries Who Served There , reviewed by Sharon Sauder Muhlfeld

Kevin Kenny. Peaceable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn’s Holy Experiment, reviewed by Scott Paul Gordon

Heikki Lempa and Paul Peucker, eds. Self, Community, World: Moravian Education in a Transatlantic World, reviewed by Craig D. Atwood

 

ISSUE 9, FALL 2010

Articles

Hans J. Rollmann, Moravians in Central Labrador: The Indigenous Inuit Mission of Jacobus and Salome at Snooks Cove

Helen C. Blouet, Transitions in Moravian Burial and Commemorative Practices in the Former Danish West Indies

Vernon H. Nelson, The Sun Inn at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Source Material

Scott Paul Gordon, William Atlee’s Description of Bethlehem (1779)

Andrew Heil, Paul Peucker, and Lanie Graf, Overview of Publications on the Moravian Church in English, 2000-2010

Book Reviews

C. Daniel Crews. Faith, Love, Hope: A History of the Unitas Fratrum, reviewed by Glenn Miller

Craig D. Atwood. The Theology of the Czech Brethren from Hus to Comenius, reviewed by Howard Louthan

Gunlög Fur. A Nation of Women: Gender and Colonial Encounters Among the Delaware Indians, reviewed by Michelle LeMaster

Rachel Wheeler. To Live upon Hope: Mohicans and Missionaries in the Eighteenth-Century Northeast, reviewed by Amy C. Schutt

Beverly Hamel. Bethania: The Village by the Black Walnut Bottom, reviewed by S. Scott Rohrer

 

issue 8, spring 2010

Articles

Scott Paul Gordon, Entangled by the World: William Henry of Lancaster and “Mixed” Living in MoravianTown and Country Congregations

Craig D. Atwood, Apologizing for the Moravians: Spangenberg’s Idea Fidei Fratrum

Katherine M. Faull, “You are the Savior’s Widow:” Religion, Sexuality and Bereavement in the Eighteenth-Century Moravian Church

Book Reviews

Claus Bernet. Gebaute Apokalypse: Die Utopie des Himmlischen Jerusalem in der Frühen Neuzeit, reviewed by Peter Vogt

Peter Vogt. Zwischen Bekehrungseifer und Philosemitismus: Texte zur Stellung des Pietismus zum Judentum, reviewed by Jason Radine

Christine Lost. Das Leben als Lehrtext. Lebensläufe aus der Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine, reviewed by Thomas Ruhland

Nola Reed Knouse. The Music of the Moravian Church in America, reviewed by Hilde Binford

Mark Häberlein. The Practice of Pluralism: Congregational Life and Religious Diversity in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1730-1820, reviewed by Scott Paul Gordon

 

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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