1700’s Puritan Diaspora - Pietists take control of the Means of Production of the Sacred and set off the international “Great Awakening”
Pietism and the making of eighteenth-century Prussia By Richard L. Gawthrop
Spener’s Pietism represents one very strong wave of a continual process of social and moral reform. It is interesting how Pietism was an organizational technology innovation. Pietism was organized as a conspiracy within all of the other Churches. They were organized in small cells called conventicles. A conventicle was a combination of Bible Reading Group and Group Confessional. This conventicle is the ancestor of feminist Consciousness Raising groups and 12 step programs. Doctrine was not enforced centrally but bubbled up out of the conventicle.
