Hinds George Fox and Early Quaker Culture

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-84779-459-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hinds, Hilary

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen Quäker, Religiöse Gesellschaft der Freunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments A note on 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 of Journeys to America and Barbados

Conclusion: Singularity and Doubleness Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hinds Hilary:
Hilary Hinds is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Lancaster University.Hilary Hinds is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Lancaster University.