Selected Publications

Books (single authored)

Petterson, Christina. The Moravian Brethren in a Time of Transition: A Socio-Economic Analysis of a Religious Community in Eighteenth century Saxony. Historical Materialism, Leiden: Brill, 2021.

Petterson, Christina. The Missionary, the Catechist and the Hunter: Foucault, Protestantism and Colonialism. Studies in Critical Research in Religion Series, Leiden: Brill 2014.

Edited volumes

Petterson, Christina, and Felicity Jensz: Legacies of David Cranz’s ‘Historie von Grönland’ (1765). Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World. London: Palgrave MacMillan.

Archival publications

Petterson, Christina. ‘Spangenberg and Zinzendorf on Slavery in the Danish West Indies’ in Journal of Moravian History 21/1 (2021): 34-59

Petterson, Christina. ‘Speaking about Marriage: Notes/Reports from the Married Choir conferences 7-17 January 1744’, transcribed, translated and with introduction by Christina Petterson and Katherine M. Faull, Journal of Moravian History 17/1 (2017): 58-103

Refereed journal articles

Petterson, Christina, and Katherine M. Faull, ‘Bodies in Heathen Places: Regulating Marriage without a State’ in What God Has Joined Together: Histories of Religion and Marriage, special edition of Journal of Religious History 43/2 (2018): 180-194.

Petterson, Christina. ‘Communal Economy and Economic Community: Changes in Moravian Entrepreneurial Activities in the Eighteenth Century’ in Journal for the History of Reformed Pietism, 3/1 (2018): 25-48.

Petterson, Christina. ‘”A Plague of the State and the Church” A local Response to the Moravian Enterprise’ in Journal of Moravian History 16/1 (2016): 45-60.

Petterson, Christina. ‘Colonialism and Orthodoxy in Greenland’ in Postcolonial Studies 15/1 (2012): 69-86.

Book chapters

Petterson, Christina. ‘Body, Self, and Emotions in Zinzendorf’s Herrnhut Choir-Speeches’ in Daniel Cyranka, Thomas Ruhland, Christian Soboth and Friedemann Stengel (eds.) Gefühl und Norm. Religion und Gefühlskulturen im 18. Jarhhundert. Beiträge zum V Internationalen Kongress für Pietismusforschung 2018: Hallesche Forschungen 61, 2. vols. Halle: Verlag der Franckeschen Stiftungen Halle, 2021: 593-603.

Petterson, Christina. ‘Eine Chorrede Spangenbergs und die Entwicklungen des brüderischen Eheverständnisses’ Tikhonov, A. (ed.): czEXILe – Lebensläufe tschechischer Flüchtlinge aus Berlin-Rixdorf des 18. Jahrhunderts. Interdisziplinäre Analysen ausgewählter Handschriften. Open Access-Publikation der Beiträge einer Lesereihe des Stifterverbandes, Wikimedia Deutschland und der VolkswagenStiftung, Berlin, 2021: 103-13.

Petterson, Christina. ‘New Jerusalem in Greenland: Aspects of Moravian Mission’ in Ragnhild Johnsrud Zorgati et al. (eds), Tracing the Jerusalem Code III, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020: 107-113.

Petterson, Christina, and Felicity Jensz, ‘More than the Sum of its Parts: David Cranz’s Historie von Grönland’ in Felicity Jensz and Christina Petterson (eds) Legacies of David Cranz’s ‘Historie von Grönland’ (1765). Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2020: 1-26

Petterson, Christina. ‘Moravians in Greenland: Barren shores and fruitful missions’ in Felicity Jensz and Christina Petterson (eds) Legacies of David Cranz’s ‘Historie von Grönland’ (1765). Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2020: 29-46

Petterson, Christina. ‘Reading the signs of the times: The Moravian Brethren’s quiet revolution’ in Bronwyn Winter and Cat Moir (eds) Reform, Revolution and Crisis in Europe: Landmarks in History, Memory, and Thought, London: Routledge, 2020: 40-58.

Petterson, Christina. ‘Männlichkeit im Radikal-Pietismus des 18. Jahrhunderts’, in Männlichkeit und Reproduktion. Zum Gesellschaftlichen Ort Historischer und Aktueller Männlichkeits-produktionen (ed. Andreas Heilmann et al; Wiesbaden: Springer VS) 2014: 251-268