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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465636003321

Autore

Hinds Hilary

Titolo

George Fox and early Quaker culture [[electronic resource] /] / Hilary Hinds

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press, 2011

ISBN

1-78170-238-1

1-84779-459-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Disciplina

289.609032

Soggetti

Society of Friends - History - 17th century

Quakers - England - History - 17th century

Quakers - History - 17th century

Electronic books.

England Church history 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 human and the divine. Taking an original perspective on this most enduring of radical religious groups, Hinds combines literary and historical approaches to produce a fresh study of



Quaker cultural practice. Close readings of Fox's Journal are put in dialogue with the voices of other early Friends a