Pietism and the Making of Eighteenth-Century Prussia

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Cambridge University Press, 2006. 11. 2. - 320페이지
How did as small and backward a state as Prussia transform itself to compete successfully in war against states with far greater human and financial resources? Richard Gawthrop finds the answer to this perennial question in the creation of a unique political culture, in which service to the Prussian state took precedence over all other relationships and commitments. The campaign to inculcate the new ideology of disciplined energetic obedience to the state authority derived its moral vision and institutional forms from Lutheran Pietism, a German version of ascetic Protestantism strongly influenced by English Puritanism. This work describes systematically how the collaboration between Pietism and the Prussian state not only led to an increase in the latter's power but also laid the cultural basis for the subsequent political modernization of Germany.
 

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Preface page xi
1
The German territorial state in the sixteenth
14
Great Elector
36
The nature of the pre1713 Hohenzollern state
60
Lutheran confessionalism 89
89
Spenerian Pietism
104
From Spener to Francke
121
ideology and indoctrination
150
growth and crisis
176
PietistHohenzollern collaboration
200
Civilian mobilization and economic development
247
Conclusion
270
Bibliography
285
Index
301
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