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78 | Benedikt Bauer www.jrfm.eu 2018, 4/2, 67–79 were the foundation of thinking about marriage in the 18th century and even if the Moravian community cohered around these structures and reproduced them, het- eronormativity did not necessarily exclude alternative constructions of masculin- ity. As we have seen in light of the bodily cognition of the self in the virtual interac- tion, lyrical text, and therefore also other medial representations, can be accessed such that perceptions of the correlation of sex and gender are reconstructed – in this case especially masculinity. A specific form of piety like bridal mysticism can allow for heteronormative structures of marriage to be partially fractured without the heteronormative structures themselves being broken down; rather, percep- tions of sex and gender are changed and heteronormativity bent in a way that makes it possible to think of the male individual and the whole male congregation as bride and, consequently, as female to some extent. In conclusion, the Moravian community in the time of sifting could be characterized as constituted by mar- riage, both real and virtual, that was oriented completely toward Jesus Christ as a bridegroom and his wounds and was determined by a multiplicity of masculinities as well as the transgressional ambiguity and fluidity of gender.52 In this material we have found virtual and/or transcendental masculinity functioning as an indi- cator of immanent masculinities, an idea that is surely worth exploring in other sources, and not necessarily in western Christian material alone. BIBLIOGRAPHY Atwood, Craig D., 1997, Sleeping in the Arms of Christ. Sanctifying Sexuality in the Eighteenth-Cen- tury Moravian Church, Journal of the History of Sexuality 1, 8, 25–51. Atwood, Craig D., 2011, The Union of Masculine and Feminine in Zinzendorfian Piety, in: Faull, Kathe- rin M. (ed.), Masculinity, Senses, Spirit, Aperçus, Histories Texts Culture, Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 11–37. Bauer, Benedikt, 2017, Mystik als Motiv devotionaler Fitness?, Zeitschrift für Evangelische Theologie 3/77, 177–193. Beyreuther, Erich / Meyer, Gerhard / Molnár Amedeo (eds.), 1978, Kleines Brüdergesangbuch. Hirten-Lieder von Bethlehem, Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, Materialien und Dokumente 4, 5, Hildesheim: Olms. Beyreuther, Erich / Meyer, Matthias (eds.), 2000, Herrnhut im 18. und 19 Jahrhundert. Drei Schriften von Christian David, Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf und Heinrich Bruiningk, Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, Materialien und Dokumente 2. Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, Leben und Werk in Quellen und Darstellungen 24, 1/2, Hildesheim/Zürich/New York: Olms. Connell, Raewyn, 2000, Der gemachte Mann. Konstruktion und Krise von Männlichkeiten. trans. Christian Stahlt, ed. Ursula Müller, Geschlecht und Gesellschaft 8, Opladen: Leske + Budrich. Degele, Nina, 2008, Gender/Queer Studies. Eine Einführung, Basiswissen Soziologie, Paderborn: Fink. Di Blasi, Luca, 2013, Der weisse Mann. Ein Anti-Manifest, X-Texte zu Kultur und Gesellschaft, Biele- feld: transcript. 52 Vogt describes the masculinity of the Moravian brothers as transitory; see Vogt 2015, 87.