Religion on the Margins

Auteur

Benjamin M. Pietrenka is Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Theology and Church History at Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg and a Lecturer at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies. His work has appeared in Religion and American Culture and Journal of Early Modern History as well as in the edited volumes Bodies in Early Modern Religious Dissent and The Bible in Early Transatlantic Pietism and Evangelicalism.

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"Examines the believers and lay missionaries of the eighteenth-century Moravian Church, an influential group of radical German Pietists who worked to build a cosmopolitan community focused on an eschatological global vision while negotiating diverse cultures, unfamiliar configurations of power and authority, and the institution of slavery"--