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Serving two masters : Moravian Brethren in Germany and North Carolina, 1727-1801 /
The eighteenth century was a time of significant change in the perception of marriage and family relations, the emphasis of reason over revelation, and the spread of political consciousness. The Unity of the Brethren, known in America as Moravians, experienced the resulting tensions firsthand as the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
The University Press of Kentucky,
©2015.
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| Colección: | Religion in the South.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The eighteenth century was a time of significant change in the perception of marriage and family relations, the emphasis of reason over revelation, and the spread of political consciousness. The Unity of the Brethren, known in America as Moravians, experienced the resulting tensions firsthand as they organized their protective religious settlements in Germany. A group of the Brethren who later settled in Salem, North Carolina, experienced the stresses of cultural and generational conflict when its younger members came to think of themselves as Americans. The Moravians who first immigrated to Am. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (254 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780813157238 0813157234 1322598290 9781322598291 0813121396 9780813121390 |