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

• Autore: Hinds Hilary
• Pubblicazione: Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (233 p.)
• Disciplina: 289.609032
• Soggetto topico: Society of Friends - History - 17th century; Quakers - England - History - 17th century; Quakers - History - 17th century
• Soggetto geografico: England Church history 17th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: George Fox and early Quaker culture
• ISBN: 1-78170-238-1; 1-84779-459-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465636003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II