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German Pietism and the Problem of Conversion (Hardcover)
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German Pietism and the Problem of Conversion (Hardcover)
Series: Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist Studies
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August Hermann Francke described his conversion to Pietism in
gripping terms that included intense spiritual struggle, weeping,
falling to his knees, and a decisive moment in which his doubt
suddenly disappeared and he was “overwhelmed as with a stream of
joy.” His account came to exemplify Pietist conversion in the
historical imagination around Pietism and religious awakening.
Jonathan Strom’s new interpretation challenges the paradigmatic
nature of Francke’s narrative and seeks to uncover the more
varied, complex, and problematic character that conversion
experiences posed for Pietists in the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries. Grounded in archival research, German Pietism and the
Problem of Conversion traces the way that accounts of conversion
developed and were disseminated among Pietists. Strom examines
members’ relationship to the pious stories of the “last
hours,” the growth of conversion narratives in popular Pietist
periodicals, controversies over the Busskampf model of conversion,
the Dargun revival movement, and the popular, if gruesome, genre of
execution conversion narratives. Interrogating a wide variety of
sources and examining nuance in the language used to define
conversion throughout history, Strom explains how these experiences
were received and why many Pietists had an uneasy relationship to
conversions and the practice of narrating them. A learned,
insightful work by one of the world’s leading scholars of
Pietism, this volume sheds new light on Pietist conversion and the
development of piety and modern evangelical narratives of religious
experience.
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