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George Fox and Early Quaker Culture
Hilary Hinds
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Description for George Fox and Early Quaker Culture
Hardback. 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. Num Pages: 232 pages, 22 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAX; HRCC97. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 240 x 164 x 23. Weight in Grams: 508.
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 and their critics to argue that the Light Within set the ... Read more
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 and their critics to argue that the Light Within set the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719081576
SKU
V9780719081576
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About Hilary Hinds
Hilary Hinds is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Lancaster University. -- .
Reviews for George Fox and Early Quaker Culture
'The range of fresh perspectives about the nature of early Quaker discourse and culture that Hinds offers will be of great value to scholars of the period.' Stuart Masters, Quaker Studies, 16:2 (2012) 'A consistently perceptive book ... a well-constructed, tautly argued, genuinely interdisciplinary study.' R. C. Richardson, Clio: A Journal of Literature, History and the Philosophy of History, ... Read more