Pietists, the name given to a religious party that arose in Germany at the end of the 17th century, but without forming a separate sect; laid more stress on religious feeling than dogmatic belief, and who at length, as all who ground religion on mere feeling are apt to do, distinguished themselves more by a weak sentimentality than by a sturdy living faith.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Pietermaritzburg * Pietra Dura