Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; List of illustrations and table; Abbreviations; Introduction; I. Congregants' everyday practices; 1 Experiencing the service; 2 Seating the religious public: church pews and society; II. The producers; 3 The clergy, the city council, and Leipzig inhabitants; 4 Elites in and beyond Leipzig: the Dresden court and the consistories; 5 Leipzig's cantors: status, politics and the adiaphora; III. The Pietist alternative; 6 Sociability and religious protest: the collegia pietatis of 1689-1690
7 The Pietist shadow networkIV. The construction boom and beyond; 8 Social change and religious life; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index