A Harmony of the Spirits : Translation and the Language of Community in Early Pennsylvania.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Editorial Note -- Introduction: "Unter der Leitung seines Geistes": Spiritual Translation in Early America -- One: Reversing the Heritage of Babel: Visions of Religious and Linguistic Renewal in Seventeenth-Century Europe -- Two: Translating Pennsylvania: Visions of Spiritual Community in Promotional Literature -- Three: Debating Pennsylvania: Religious and Linguistic Diversity and Difference -- Four: "Honey-Combs" and "Paper-Hives": Francis Daniel Pastorius and the Gathering of a Translingual Community of Letters -- Five: A Hidden Voice Amplified: Music, Mysticism, and Translation -- Six: "What Will Become of Pennsylvania?": War, Community, and the Language of Suffering for Peace -- Coda: Confusio Linguarum Redux: Moravian Missions, Multilingualism, and the Search for a Spiritual Language -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

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