Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-243) and index.
Contents
Congregants' everyday practices. Experiencing the service ; Seating the religious public : church pews and society -- The producers. The clergy, the city council, and Leipzig inhabitants ; Elites in and beyond Leipzig : the Dresden court and the consistories ; Leipzig's cantors : status, politics and the adiaphora -- The Pietist alternative. Sociability and religious protest : the collegia pietatis of 1689-1690 ; The Pietist shadow network -- The construction boom and beyond. Social change and religious life.