George Fox and Early Quaker Culture

Informationen zum Autor Hilary Hinds is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Lancaster University. Klappentext Close readings of Fox's Journal are put in dialogue with the voices of other early Friends and their critics to examine the fundamental erosion of the division between the human and the divine in early Quaker culture, and its consequences for understanding the history of the spiritual subject. Zusammenfassung Close readings of Fox’s Journal are put in dialogue with the voices of other early Friends and their critics to examine the fundamental erosion of the division between the human and the divine in early Quaker culture, and its consequences for understanding the history of the spiritual subject. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: seamless subjects1 'As the Light appeared, all appeared': the Quaker culture of convincement2 'Let your lives preach': the embodied rhetoric of the early Quakers3 'And The Lord's Power Was Over All': anxiety, confidence and masculinity in Fox's journal4 A technology of presence: genre and temporality in Fox's journal5 'Moved of the Lord': the contingent itinerancy of early Friends6 The limits of the light: silence and slavery in Quaker narratives of journeys to America and Barbados Conclusion: singularity and doubleness Index

Product details

• Authors: Hilary Hinds, Hinds Hilary
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2011
• EAN: 9780719081576
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8157-6
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / Quaker, History of Religion, Quakers (Religious Society of Friends)