Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction; 1. The German territorial state in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; 2. Reformed confessionalism and the reign of the Great Elector; 3. The nature of the pre-1713 Hohenzollern state; 4. Lutheran confessionalism; 5. Spenerian Pietism; 6. From Spener to Francke; 7. Halle Pietism I: ideology and indoctrination; 8. Halle Pietism II: growth and crisis; 9. Pietist-Hohenzollern collaboration; 10. The impact of Pietist pedagogy on the Prussian army and bureaucracy; 11. Civilian mobilization and economic development during the reign of Frederick William I; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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This work describes the relationship between Pietism and the rise of the Prussian state.