Description: The Transformation of Moravian Bethlehem: From Communal Mission to Family by Beverly Prior Smaby Hardcover in good condition with clean pages, tight binding, and dust jacket (as pictured) Free shipping anywhere in the United States Synopsis: Excellent resource for local historians and genealogists alike. The Moravians who settled Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1742 were committed to a society centered around missionary work. To free their missionaries from the need to earn a living, they formed a communal economic organization in which all workers gave their labor to the community in exchange for food, shelter, and clothing. To encourage each individual's religious development, family ties were deemphasized and members of the same sex, marital status, and age slept, worked, and worshipped together.After 20 years, the worldwide Moravian Church, facing a financial crisis, ordered Bethlehem to reorganize into a traditional community of nuclear families. It was hoped that, under this more conventional arrangement, Bethlehem could be expected to help pay the huge debts of the parent church.In The Transformation of Moravian Bethlehem, Beverly Prior Smaby traces the effects of this change on Bethlehem's Moravians, demonstrating how it altered even the most intimate aspects of their lives. She analyzes the unusually accurate marriage, birth, death, migration, and census records to assess the demographic response to institutional change. She traces change in cultural norms through unique technical analyses of biographies which were read at a variety of Moravian gatherings.
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Subject Area: Social Science, Genealogy, History, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Genealogy, Pennsylvania History, Moravian Church
Book Title: The Transformation of Moravian Bethlehem : From Communal Mission
Publication Name: Transformation of Moravian Bethlehem PA Church Genealogy
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Item Length: 9 in
Subject: Genealogy, Regional Studies, Sociology of Religion, Church Genealogy, Church History, Pennsylvania Genealogy, Pennsylvania History, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Moravian Church
Publication Year: 1988
Type: Book
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Item Height: 0.6 in
Author: Beverly Prior Smaby
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Weight: 23.5 Oz
Item Width: 6 in
Number of Pages: 290 Pages
