Migration and faith : the migrations of the Schwenkfelders from Germany to America - risks and opportunities / Horst Weigelt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weigelt, Horst, author.

Series:

Forschungen zur Kirchen- und Dogmengeschichte ; v. 110.

V & R academic

Forschungen zur Kirchen- und Dogmengeschichte, 0532-2154 ; volume 110

V&R Academic

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Schwenckfeld, Caspar, 1489-1561.

Schwenckfeld, Caspar.

Schwenkfelder Church--History.

Schwenkfelder Church.

Schwenkfelders--Pennsylvania--History.

Schwenkfelders.

Church history.

History.

Pennsylvania--Church history.

Pennsylvania.

Genre:

Church history.

History.

Physical Description:

230 pages : 22 illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, [2017]

Summary:

At the beginning of 18st century several hundreds of followers of Caspar Schwenckfeld's teachings, left Silesia - after decades of persecutions by governmental and ecclesiastical authorities - for the sake of their spiritualistic faith. They emigrated first to the Electorate of Saxony and some years later (1731/1737) to Pennsylvania. In this multireligious English colony they became acquainted with other religious beliefs and cultural circumstances. The consequences were often alternations of their traditional faith. However, for most of them these encounters involved primarily not risks, but opportunities for their faith and life. Horst Weigelt is the first to explore the reasons and effects of this migration on the faith of these refugees. Book jacket.

Contents:

Foreword

Introduction

Guiding cognitive interest

Outline

Text style, footnotes, list of archival materials, bibliography, list of illustrations, and indices

Text style

Footnotes

List of archival materials, bibliography, and list of illustrations

indices

Schwenkfeldianism in silesia from middle of 16th to beginning of 18th Century

Schwenkfelders until end of thirty years war

Residences, living and economic conditions, theology and religious life

Criticism of Church and ecclesiastical doctrines

Disciplinary and punitive measures by Governmental and ecclesiastical authorities

Schwenkfelders from second half of 17th to beginning of 18th century

Between religious isolation and openness

Procedures of governmental and ecclesiastical authorities

Establishment of a jesuit mission for catholicization

Schwenkfelders' search for asylum in Germany and the Netherlands^^^

^ Flight of schwenkfelders from Silesia to upper Lusatia in electorate of saxony

Asylum in the trade town of görlitz and vicinity

Sojourn on zinzendorf's estates in herrnhut and berthelsdorf

Expulsion of schwenkfelders from upper Lusatia : decree by Elector Frederick August II of saxony

Schwenkfelders' various endeavors for an asylum in Europe or America

Schwenkfelder migrations from saxony to Pennsylvania

Organization and route of the main emigration and events during the transatlantic Passage

Smaller emigration groups

Schwenkfelders in Pennsylvania : from immigration to beginning of the revolutionary War

Settlement and economic circumstances

Scattered settlements Northwest of Philadelphia

Economic and labor conditions

Religious life : from privacy to communality

Religious life during the early settlement years

Spangenberg's and Zinzendorf's attempts at influencing Schwenkfelders' religious life^^^

^ Emergence of the society of Schwenkfelders : gradual formation of organizations and institutions

Social and political engagement during French and Indian War

Schwenkfeldianism in Silesia under Prussian Sovereignty

Guarantees for individual freedom of faith and conscience : edicts of king frederick II of Prussia

Religious and social life of a shrinking minority

Extinguishment of Schwenkfeldianism in Silesia

Migration and faith : risks and opportunities

Giving up schwenkfelder faith : betrayal and abandonment

Betrayal : breach of fidelity and apostasy

Abandonment : forsaking and jettisoning

Alterations of faith : modification, change, and realignment

Modification

Change

Realignment

Deepening and strengthening faith and piety

Reasons and impulses

Encounters with beliefs of other denominations and Christian Communities

Scattered settlements and conditions of life in a multicultural society^^^

^ Social and political challenges during the French and Indian War

Realization in everyday life : charitable and social commitment, tolerance

Epilogue

Summary in German

Summary in Polish

List of archival materials, bibliography, list of illustrations, and indices

List of archival materials in archives and libraries

Bibliography primary and secondary literature

List of illustrations

Index of abbreviations

Index of Bible passages

Index of persons

Index of places.

Notes:

Includes summary in German and Polish.

Additional material available online.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9783525564356

352556435X

OCLC:

982053140

Publisher Number:

9783525564356