George Fox and Early Quaker Culture : George Fox and Early Quaker Culture.

George Fox and Early Quaker Culture : George Fox and Early Quaker Culture.

What was distinctive about the founding principles and practices of Quakerism? In George Fox and Early Quaker Culture, Hilary Hinds explores how the Light Within became the organizing principle of this seventeenth-century movement, inaugurating an influential dissolution of the boundary between the...

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Main Author: Hinds, Hilary
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Fox, George, > 1624-1691.
Fox, George, > 1624-1691
1600-1699
Society of Friends > History > 17th century.
Quakers > England > History > 17th century.
Quakers > History > 17th century.
Quakers
Society of Friends
England > Church history > 17th century.
England
Church history
History
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Table of Contents:
  • 9780719081576; 9780719081576; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; A note on references to Fox's Journal; Introduction: seamless subjects; 1. 'As the Light appeared, all appeared': the Quaker culture of convincement; 2. 'Let your lives preach': the embodied rhetoric of the early Quakers; 3. 'And the Lord's power was over all': anxiety, confidence and masculinity in Fox's Journal; 4. A technology of presence: genre and temporality in Fox's Journal; 5. 'Moved of the Lord': the contingent itinerancy of early Friends.
  • 6. The limits of the light: silence and slavery in Quaker narratives ofjourneys to America and BarbadosConclusion: singularity and doubleness; Notes; References; Index.

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