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George Fox and early Quaker culture / Hilary Hinds.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 215 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781781702383
  • 1781702381
  • 9781847794598
  • 1847794599
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 289.609032 23
LOC classification:
  • BX7631.3
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
'As the light appeared, all appeared' : the Quaker culture of convincement -- 'Let your lives preach' : the embodied rhetoric of the early Quakers -- 'And the Lord's power was over all' : anxiety, confidence and masculinity in Fox's Journal -- A technology of presence : genre and temporality in Fox's Journal -- 'Moved of the Lord' : the contingent itinerancy of early Friends -- 'The limits of the light' : silence and slavery in Quaker narratives of journeys to America and Barbados.
Summary: Hinds explores how the Light Within became the organising principle of Quakerism, inaugurating an influential dissolution of the boundary between the human and the divine. Taking an original perspective, Hinds combines literary and historical approaches to produce a fresh study of Quaker cultural practice.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)515147

Hinds explores how the Light Within became the organising principle of Quakerism, inaugurating an influential dissolution of the boundary between the human and the divine. Taking an original perspective, Hinds combines literary and historical approaches to produce a fresh study of Quaker cultural practice.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

'As the light appeared, all appeared' : the Quaker culture of convincement -- 'Let your lives preach' : the embodied rhetoric of the early Quakers -- 'And the Lord's power was over all' : anxiety, confidence and masculinity in Fox's Journal -- A technology of presence : genre and temporality in Fox's Journal -- 'Moved of the Lord' : the contingent itinerancy of early Friends -- 'The limits of the light' : silence and slavery in Quaker narratives of journeys to America and Barbados.