Margaret Fell Letter Networks

Informationen zum Autor Marjon Ames teaches at Appalachian State University, USA. Klappentext Intensely persecuted during the English Interregnum, early Quakers left a detailed record of the suffering they endured for their faith. Margaret Fell, Letters, and the Making of Quakerism is the first book to connect the suffering experience with the communication network that drew the faithful together to create a new religious community. This study explores the ways in which early Quaker leaders, particularly Margaret Fell, helped shape a stable organization that allowed for the transition from movement to church to occur. Fell's role was essential to this process because she developed and maintained the epistolary exchange that was the basis of the early religious community. Her efforts allowed for others to travel and spread the faith while she served as nucleus of the community's communication network by determining how and where to share news. Memory of the early years of Quakerism were based on the letters Fell preserved. Marjon Ames analyzes not only how Fell's efforts shaped the inchoate faith, but also how subsequent generations memorialized their founding members. Zusammenfassung Intensely persecuted during the English Interregnum, early Quakers left a detailed record of the suffering they endured for their faith. Margaret Fell, Letters, and the Making of Quakerism is the first book to connect the suffering experience with the communication network that drew the faithful together to create a new religious community. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents Introduction: Becoming Quaker Chapter 1: The Making of Quakerism Chapter 2: The Quaker Letter Network Chapter 3: Margaret Fell Re-Examined Chapter 4: Apostolic Epistolary Influences Chapter 5: Suffering, Prison, and the Law in the Quaker Tradition Chapter 6: The Afterlife of the Movement Conclusion Bibliography ...

Product details

• Authors: Marjon Ames, Marjon (Appalachian State University Ames, Ames Marjon, Marjon Ames
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.01.2016
• EAN: 9781409466987
• ISBN: 978-1-4094-6698-7
• Series: Material Readings in Early Modern Culture; Material Readings in Early Modern Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; England, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious, RELIGION / Christianity / Quaker, Biography: religious & spiritual, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Biography: religious and spiritual, C 1600 To C 1700, Quakers (Religious Society of Friends)