Books in the Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist Studies series

A collection of letters by Mary Penry (1735-1804), who immigrated to America from Wales and lived in Moravian communities for more than forty years. Offers a sustained view of the spiritual and social life of a single woman in early America.

Examines the eighteenth-century crisis in the Moravian Church known as the Sifting Time, and the church's subsequent shift from radical beliefs and practices to conservative mainstream Protestantism.

An annotated and translated collection of instructions on religion, health, sexuality, and family life from the eighteenth-century Moravian Church.

An annotated and translated collection of instructions on religion, health, sexuality, and family life from the eighteenth-century Moravian Church.

Explores how conversion and religious experiences developed within German Pietism, arguing that the Pietist relationship with conversion was much more complex and problematic than it is often presented to be.

A collection of letters by Mary Penry (1735-1804), who immigrated to America from Wales and lived in Moravian communities for more than forty years. Offers a sustained view of the spiritual and social life of a single woman in early America.