Moravian Women's Memoirs Spiritual Narratives, 1750-1820 - (Women and Gender in Religion) (Paperback)

About the Book

This volume is made up of the autobiographical writings of thirty of the women who lived in the major North American Moravian settlement of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, at varying points in the eighteenth century.

Book Synopsis

"Moravian Women's Memoirs is made up of the autobiographical writings of thirty of the women who lived in the major North American Moravian settlement of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, at varying points in the eighteenth century. What follows are their memoirs, fascinating documents that contain insights into the lives of the women and men who lived in the Moravian communities in North America. . . . These Moravian women's memoirs reveal the intersection of the private and the public spheres of their lives. They are records of their spiritual paths in a world that in most cases challenged the bounds of knowledge inherited from their parents."--from the Preface

About the Author

Katherine M. Faull is associate professor of German at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. She is the editor of Anthropology and the German Enlightenment: Perspectives on Humanity.