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Table of Contents:

• Introduction / Heikki Lempa and Paul Peucker
• Origins, continuity and global expansion
• Searching for Moravians in the Atlantic world / Jon Sensbach
• A missing link : Daniel Ernst Jablonski as the connection between Comenius and Zinzendorf / Alexander Schunka
• The Moravians and the challenge of the Enlightenment
• An eighteenth-century Socrates? : Lessing's appeal to reread Zinzendorf / Julie Tomberlin Weber
• "Headless and un-erudite" : anti-intellectual tendencies in Zinzendorf's approach to education / Peter Vogt
• Evangelicalism and Enlightenment : two generations in the Okely family / Jonathan Yonan
• The techniques of the self as Moravian education
• Speaking and truth-telling : Parrhesia in the eighteenth-century Moravian Church / Katherine Faull
• Moravian memoirs as a source for the history of education / Pia Schmid
• Erudition vs. experience : gender, communal narration, and the shaping of eighteenth-century Moravian religious thought / Gisela Mettele
• Art, community, and education
• Der Wille Gottes : musical improvisation in eighteenth-century Moravian communities / Sarah J. Eyerly
• Keys to the heart : the clavichord in Moravian life / Laurence Libin
• Communication through art : the role of art in Moravian communities / Paul Peucker
• Moravian education in an eighteenth-century context / Heikki Lempa.

Contributors:

Lempa, Heikki

Peucker, Paul, 1963-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Studies in eighteenth-century America and the Atlantic world

Subjects:

Moravian Church — Congresses

Moravian Church — Education — Congresses

Education — History — Congresses

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Selection of papers presented at a conference at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Penn., Apr. 21-22, 2006; sponsored by Moravian College and co-sponsored by the Moravian Archives.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

BX8571.3 .S45 2010eb

ISBNs:

9780982372043 (electronic bk.)
0982372043 (electronic bk.)
9780980149654 [Invalid]
0980149657 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

647843338

Other Control Numbers:

EBC3115900 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp3167394