pietism

Now, as always, Clare's father was sanguine as a child; and though the younger could not accept his parent's narrow dogma he revered his practice, and recognized the hero under the pietist. Perhaps he revered his father's practice even more now than ever, seeing that, in the question of making Tessy his wife, his father had not once thought of inquiring whether she were well provided or penniless.

Shyovitz's focus is the school of German Jewish pietists, the Hasidei Ashkenaz, whose most prominent figures are Judah the Pious (Judah ben Samuel he-Hasid, d.

The active presence of Pietism and the Pietists in Russia predated the reign of Anna by many decades, driven by the efforts of Halle-connected teachers and pastors to find employment and by the missionary enthusiasm of August Hermann Francke (1663-1727).

The Halle Pietists, for example, deployed mathematics and the study of nature to instill higher forms of "affective or emotional intelligence" (127).

Was it SOP for the two 'professional pietists' and for the day workers and their employers?

Though originally as quietist as earlier Pietists, he says, by the 1820s and 1830s some of the Awakened, and especially some of their leaders, came increasingly to think that a world of growing politicization, economic change, transformation in church governance, and social disruption demanded their more active engagement.

Because of her rejection of the sterile academic theology of Protestant Scholasticism (which she had mastered and continued to use against opponents) and of her joining the Labadist cult to focus on true theology, that is, a deeply felt experiential knowledge of Christ and God, she fell into disfavor in Calvinist circles, yet remained influential, especially among German Pietists and beyond.

Shantz incorporates insights from Johann Anselm Steiger, who has revised interpretations of the Pietists' Orthodox critics; Andreas Deppermann, who helped demonstrate that Frankfurt Pietism began not with Philipp Jakob Spener but with a lawyer named Johann Jakob Schutz; Ulrike Glexner, a pioneer in recovering the contributions of women within the Pietist movement; and Veronika Albrecht-Birkner and Juliane Jacobi, who have complicated our understanding of Francke's "Institutions." (Shantz employs Jacobi's research to conclude that "Compared with other orphanages, the Halle orphanage was not really a model for the care and education of the poor"--p.

Such transformations of Islamic knowledge are similarly advanced in Ronit Ricci's musings on the fate of the venerable Book of a thousand questions, showing how the questions once put in the mouth of a Jew of Medina in the seventh century could move into imagined conversations on Java in the late nineteenth century between rival partisans of established Sufi orders and more Sharia oriented pietists who were spreading their own particular variants of proper belief.