The Moravian Brethren in a Time of Transition: A Socio-economic Analysis of a Religious Community in Eighteenth-century Saxony

‎Contents
‎Preface and Acknowledgements
‎Introductions
	‎1. To the Marxists
	‎2. To Moravian Scholars and Other Theologians
		‎2.1. Class
		‎2.2. Category of History
		‎2.3. The Task of History
	‎3. Outline of Chapters
‎Chapter 1. Introducing Choir Ideology
	‎1. Introduction
	‎2. From Choir Speech to Choir Ideology
	‎3. What Is the Function of a Choir?
	‎4. Methodology
	‎5. The Choirs as Vanishing Mediators
‎Chapter 2. The Choirs – A Genealogy
	‎1. Introduction
	‎2. Overview of the Genealogy
		‎2.1. Bonded Groups (Banden)
		‎2.2. Associations
		‎2.3. Classes
		‎2.4. Choirs
	‎3. Terminology and the Establishment of the Choirs
		‎3.1. But First, the Diaries
		‎3.2. 1736–40
		‎3.3. 1741
		‎3.4. 1742
		‎3.5. 1743
		‎3.6. 1744
		‎3.7. 1745
	‎4. The Day of All Choirs: 25 March
	‎5. Choir Houses
		‎5.1. Single Brothers’ House
		‎5.2. Single Sisters’ House
		‎5.3. Houses of the Widows and the Widowers
	‎6. Conclusion
‎Chapter 3. Blood, Wounds, and Class
	‎1. Introduction
	‎2. Martin Dober’s Account
	‎3. The Purge in Herrnhut
		‎3.1. The Marriage Document
		‎3.2. The Sex Scandal in 1744
		‎3.3. The Meeting Minutes
	‎4. Blood, Wounds, and Authority
		‎4.1. Blood and Wounds
		‎4.2. Christ, the Chief Elder
	‎5. Conclusion
‎Chapter 4. The Choir Speeches
	‎1. Introduction
	‎2. The Saviour: Individual and Collective
		‎2.1. The Saviour
		‎2.2. Stand
	‎3. Children’s Choir
		‎3.1. Relating to the Saviour
		‎3.2. Seeing/Non-seeing
		‎3.3. Language
	‎4. Boys’ Choir
		‎4.1. Relating to the Saviour
		‎4.2. History, Gendering and Sexual Systems
	‎5. Girls’ Choir
		‎5.1. Relating to the Saviour
		‎5.2. Presence
	‎6. Single Brothers’ Choir
		‎6.1. Relating to the Saviour
		‎6.2. Governing One’s Body and the Role of the Corpse
	‎7. Single Sisters’ Choir
		‎7.1. Relating to the Saviour
		‎7.2. Outer and Inner
	‎8. Widowers’ Choir
		‎8.1. Relating to the Saviour
		‎8.2. Transition
	‎9. Widows’ Choir
		‎9.1. Relating to the Saviour
		‎9.2. Choir
	‎10. Conclusion
‎Chapter 5. Marriage and Community
	‎1. Zinzendorf’s Idea of Marriage
	‎2. The Problem
		‎2.1. Three Comparisons
		‎2.2. The Chapel
		‎2.3. Married Couples’ Choir
		‎2.4. 1755–56 and the Separated Choir Speeches
	‎3. After the Synod
	‎4. Conclusion
‎Chapter 6. The State and Its Subjects
	‎1. Stand as Manifestation of Cultural Revolution
	‎2. Gender
	‎3. Class Society and the Civic Self
	‎4. Individual and Subject
	‎5. The Question of Religion
	‎6. Conclusion
‎Chapter 7. Horizons of History
	‎1. Times of Change
	‎2. Agents of Change or Expressions of Change
	‎3. Dimensions of History
‎Appendix 1
‎Appendix 2
‎References
‎Index