Religion on the Margins: Embodied Moravian Pieties on the Edges of Atlantic World Empire

In the eighteenth century, missionaries of the radical, Pietist Moravian Church wandered from Germanic Europe to the edges of the known world in search of tolerance and a closer relationship to God. This open-minded, cosmopolitan undertaking led to unintended consequences, however, both for the Moravians and for the other persecuted peoples—European, African, and Indigenous—they sought to convert.

Religion on the Margins examines the complexities of early modern Moravians as a cosmopolitan c...