Moravian Americans and Their Neighbors, 1772-1822

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-29129-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 498 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 986 g

Reihe: Early American History Series

American Moravians and their Neighbors, 1772-1822, edited by Ulrike Wiethaus and Grant McAllister, offers an interdisciplinary examination of Moravian Americanization in the Early Republic. With an eye toward the communities that surrounded Moravian settlements in the Southeast, the contributors examine cultural, social, religious, and artistic practices of exchange and imposition framed by emergent political structures that encased social privilege and marginalization.

Through their multidisciplinary approach, the authors convincingly argue that Moravians encouraged assimilation, converged with core values and political forces of the Early Republic, but also contributed uniquely Moravian innovations. Residual, newly dominant, and increasingly subjugated discourses among Moravians, other European settlers, Indigenous nations and free and enslaved communities of color established the foundations of a new Moravian American identity.


Contributors include: Craig D. Atwood, David Bergstone, David Blum, Stewart Carter, Martha B. Hartley, Geoffrey R. Hughes, Winelle Kirton-Roberts, Grant P. McAllister, Thomas J. McCullough, Paul Peucker, Charles D. Rodenbough, John Ruddiman, Jon F. Sensbach, Larry E. Tise, Riddick Weber, and Ulrike Wiethaus.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wiethaus, Ulrike

McAllister, Grant

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction: Southern Moravians, Their Neighbors, and Processes of Americanization in the Early Republic

Grant Profant McAllister and Ulrike Wiethaus

PART 1: Foundations

2 The American Plan of Zinzendorf and Spangenberg

Craig Atwood

3 The Transformation of Wachovia: From Anglican Protectorate to Moravian Preserve

Larry E. Tise

4 Black People - White God: Moravianism and the “Cultural Purification” of the Afro-Caribbean in Antigua and Tobago

Winelle Kirton-Roberts

5 An Archives of Truth: Moravian Recordkeeping and Archival Selection

Paul Peucker

PART 2: Convergences

6 Traugott Bagge as a Historian of the American Revolution

John A. Ruddiman

7 Early Performances of Haydn’s Creation in the American South: The Moravian Connection

Stewart Carter

8 From Innovation to Imposition: Changing Understandings of the Single Sisters Choir in Salem from 1772–1822

Riddick Weber

9 “The Spirit of Freedom in the Land”: From Immigrants to Americans in the Moravian Experience

Jon Sensbach

PART 3: Innovations

10 Moravians and the Celebration of American Figures and Holidays, 1776–1826

Thomas J. McCullough

11 Moravian Architecture Becomes Southern

David Bergstone

12 The Americanization of Moravian Music: An Examination of the Salem Manuscript Books

David Blum

13 Becoming American in Salem’s Congregation Pottery

Geoffrey Hughes

PART 4: Segregation

14 The Changing Landscape of Slavery in Salem and its Legacy

Martha Hartley

15 Rejection of the Baptized: Moravians and Slavery

Charles D. Rodenbough

16 The Moravian Easter Morning Services from 1772–1822: Easter and the Birth of American-Moravian Identity

Grant Profant McAllister

17 Becoming American at the Moravian Missions in Springplace and Oothcaloga

Ulrike Wiethaus

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ulrike Wiethaus is professor emerita at Wake Forest University. Her research interests focus on the history of Christian spirituality with an emphasis on gender justice and political history, and most recently, historic trauma and the long-term impact of US colonialism.


Grant Profant McAllister, Jr. is an associate professor of German literature and a Levison Faculty Fellow at Wake Forest University. His research interests focus on eighteenth century aesthetic theory, romanticism, and subjectivity and most recently, on Moravian communities in the early years of the Republic.