Adrian Davies
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198208204
- eISBN:
- 9780191677953
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198208204.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History, History of Religion
The early Quakers denounced the clergy and social élite but how did that affect Friends' relationships with others? Drawing upon the insights of sociologists and ...
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The early Quakers denounced the clergy and social élite but how did that affect Friends' relationships with others? Drawing upon the insights of sociologists and anthropologists, this study sets out to discover the social consequences of religious belief. Why did the sect appoint its own midwives to attend Quaker women during confinement? Was animosity to Quakerism so great that Friends were excluded from involvement in parish life? And to what extent were the remarkably high literacy rates of Quakers attributable to the Quaker faith or wider social forces? Using a wide range of primary source material, this study demonstrates that Quakers were not the marginal and isolated people that contemporaries and historians often portrayed. Indeed the sect had a profound impact not only upon members, but more widely by encouraging a greater tolerance of diversity in early modern society.Less
The early Quakers denounced the clergy and social élite but how did that affect Friends' relationships with others? Drawing upon the insights of sociologists and anthropologists, this study sets out to discover the social consequences of religious belief. Why did the sect appoint its own midwives to attend Quaker women during confinement? Was animosity to Quakerism so great that Friends were excluded from involvement in parish life? And to what extent were the remarkably high literacy rates of Quakers attributable to the Quaker faith or wider social forces? Using a wide range of primary source material, this study demonstrates that Quakers were not the marginal and isolated people that contemporaries and historians often portrayed. Indeed the sect had a profound impact not only upon members, but more widely by encouraging a greater tolerance of diversity in early modern society.
Hilary Hinds
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719081576
- eISBN:
- 9781781702383
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719081576.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
What was distinctive about the founding principles and practices of Quakerism? This book explores how the Light Within became the organising principles of this seventeenth-century movement, ...
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What was distinctive about the founding principles and practices of Quakerism? This book explores how the Light Within became the organising principles 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, it combines literary and historical approaches to produce a fresh study of Quaker cultural practice. Close readings of George 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 terms for the unique Quaker mode of embodying spirituality and inhabiting the world. This study of the cultural consequences of a bedrock belief shows how the Quaker spiritual self was premised on a profound continuity between sinful subjects and godly omnipotence. It will be of interest not only to scholars and students of seventeenth-century literature and history, but also to those concerned with the Quaker movement, spirituality and the changing meanings of religious practice in the early modern period.Less
What was distinctive about the founding principles and practices of Quakerism? This book explores how the Light Within became the organising principles 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, it combines literary and historical approaches to produce a fresh study of Quaker cultural practice. Close readings of George 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 terms for the unique Quaker mode of embodying spirituality and inhabiting the world. This study of the cultural consequences of a bedrock belief shows how the Quaker spiritual self was premised on a profound continuity between sinful subjects and godly omnipotence. It will be of interest not only to scholars and students of seventeenth-century literature and history, but also to those concerned with the Quaker movement, spirituality and the changing meanings of religious practice in the early modern period.
James King
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474414500
- eISBN:
- 9781474421874
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474414500.001.0001
- Subject:
- Art, Art History
As an artist, an impresario, a biographer and a collector, Roland Penrose (1900–1984) is a key figure in the study of modern art in England. This book explores the intricacies of Penrose's life and ...
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As an artist, an impresario, a biographer and a collector, Roland Penrose (1900–1984) is a key figure in the study of modern art in England. This book explores the intricacies of Penrose's life and work, tracing the profound effects of his upbringing in a Quaker household on his values, the early influence of Roger Fry, and his friendships with Max Ernst, André Breton and other surrealists, especially Paul Éluard. Penrose's conflicted relationship with Pablo Picasso, his tireless promotion of surrealism and the production of his own surrealist art are also discussed. Penrose's complex professional and personal lives are handled with a deftness of touch, including his pacifism, his work as a biographer and art historian, as well as his unconventionality, especially in his two marriages — including that to Lee Miller — and his numerous love affairs.Less
As an artist, an impresario, a biographer and a collector, Roland Penrose (1900–1984) is a key figure in the study of modern art in England. This book explores the intricacies of Penrose's life and work, tracing the profound effects of his upbringing in a Quaker household on his values, the early influence of Roger Fry, and his friendships with Max Ernst, André Breton and other surrealists, especially Paul Éluard. Penrose's conflicted relationship with Pablo Picasso, his tireless promotion of surrealism and the production of his own surrealist art are also discussed. Penrose's complex professional and personal lives are handled with a deftness of touch, including his pacifism, his work as a biographer and art historian, as well as his unconventionality, especially in his two marriages — including that to Lee Miller — and his numerous love affairs.
Robert B. Jones
- Published in print:
- 1988
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807842096
- eISBN:
- 9781469616421
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9780807842096.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
This part of the book includes the poetry by Toomer that derived from an espousal of Quaker religious philosophy. The poetry canon produced here constitutes a dramatization of consciousness, a ...
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This part of the book includes the poetry by Toomer that derived from an espousal of Quaker religious philosophy. The poetry canon produced here constitutes a dramatization of consciousness, a veritable phenomenology of the spirit. This phase came after Toomer moved to Bucks County, Pennsylvania in 1938 where he was almost immediately attracted to Quakerism.Less
This part of the book includes the poetry by Toomer that derived from an espousal of Quaker religious philosophy. The poetry canon produced here constitutes a dramatization of consciousness, a veritable phenomenology of the spirit. This phase came after Toomer moved to Bucks County, Pennsylvania in 1938 where he was almost immediately attracted to Quakerism.
Roger Glenn Robins
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- April 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780195165913
- eISBN:
- 9780199835454
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195165918.003.0008
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
Ambrose Jessup Tomlinson stepped into the prevailing winds of holiness when he joined the Chester Preparative of the Westfield Monthly Meeting in 1889. By this time, holiness had flourished in the ...
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Ambrose Jessup Tomlinson stepped into the prevailing winds of holiness when he joined the Chester Preparative of the Westfield Monthly Meeting in 1889. By this time, holiness had flourished in the soil of Indiana Quakerism for over 20 years. The emergence of the holiness movement within the Society of Friends was dubbed as the “transformation of American Quakerism”. Many Friends had begun following the lead of Joseph John Gurney in dismantling the walls separating them from the wider world of evangelicalism. They embraced Victorian middle class culture, and believed in the efficacy of rational means to advance moral and religious cases such as abolition.Less
Ambrose Jessup Tomlinson stepped into the prevailing winds of holiness when he joined the Chester Preparative of the Westfield Monthly Meeting in 1889. By this time, holiness had flourished in the soil of Indiana Quakerism for over 20 years. The emergence of the holiness movement within the Society of Friends was dubbed as the “transformation of American Quakerism”. Many Friends had begun following the lead of Joseph John Gurney in dismantling the walls separating them from the wider world of evangelicalism. They embraced Victorian middle class culture, and believed in the efficacy of rational means to advance moral and religious cases such as abolition.
Anne Stott
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199699391
- eISBN:
- 9780191739132
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199699391.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter opens with an account of Selina Mills, the daughter of a Quaker bookseller in Bristol. It shows how she took over the running of the school set up by Hannah More and her sisters. The ...
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This chapter opens with an account of Selina Mills, the daughter of a Quaker bookseller in Bristol. It shows how she took over the running of the school set up by Hannah More and her sisters. The school was nearly destroyed when an heiress pupil, Clementina Clerke, eloped with the surgeon, Richard Vining Perry. The case came to trial in 1794 when Perry was acquitted of the charge of abducting a minor. The chapter then recounts the early career of Zachary Macaulay showing how his experiences in Jamaica made him an implacable opponent of the slave trade. His period as governor of the Sierra Leone colony is described. His courtship of Selina Mills was frustrated by the hostility of Hannah More and her sister Patty, and also by Selina’s reluctance to go with him to Sierra Leone.Less
This chapter opens with an account of Selina Mills, the daughter of a Quaker bookseller in Bristol. It shows how she took over the running of the school set up by Hannah More and her sisters. The school was nearly destroyed when an heiress pupil, Clementina Clerke, eloped with the surgeon, Richard Vining Perry. The case came to trial in 1794 when Perry was acquitted of the charge of abducting a minor. The chapter then recounts the early career of Zachary Macaulay showing how his experiences in Jamaica made him an implacable opponent of the slave trade. His period as governor of the Sierra Leone colony is described. His courtship of Selina Mills was frustrated by the hostility of Hannah More and her sister Patty, and also by Selina’s reluctance to go with him to Sierra Leone.
John M. Chenoweth
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781683400110
- eISBN:
- 9781683400288
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9781683400110.001.0001
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
How do both a religious community and a religion change when their members must face contradictions between their ideals and the society in which they live? This question is answered here by using ...
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How do both a religious community and a religion change when their members must face contradictions between their ideals and the society in which they live? This question is answered here by using archaeological and archival information to trace the life of a group of Quakers (members of the Religious Society of Friends) residing in the British Virgin Islands between 1741 and 1763. A group of mostly poor, white planters formed this unique community inspired by the ideals of equality, simplicity, and peace. However, these ideals were enacted in a slave society, with all or nearly all the members holding enslaved people themselves, attempting to improve their lot through the violent appropriation of labor from others on plantations. Combining archival and archaeological evidence, the book shows how modern expectations of “Quakerly” behavior are not met in this community. Instead, we find Quakerism being negotiated in creative ways that fit within a slavery-based economy and society: through foods, relationships with other planters and the enslaved people themselves, and social advancement. Community is often conceived as something every member shares equally, but the historical archaeology approach and anthropological analysis of this volume shows how social groups like religions are full of conflicting perspectives and goals—in this case, conflicts which led to the group’s end after one generation. By examining how one small group interpreted Quakerism’s ideals in the contrasting environment of the eighteenth-century Caribbean, we learn what a religion is and how it matters in the daily lives of its members.Less
How do both a religious community and a religion change when their members must face contradictions between their ideals and the society in which they live? This question is answered here by using archaeological and archival information to trace the life of a group of Quakers (members of the Religious Society of Friends) residing in the British Virgin Islands between 1741 and 1763. A group of mostly poor, white planters formed this unique community inspired by the ideals of equality, simplicity, and peace. However, these ideals were enacted in a slave society, with all or nearly all the members holding enslaved people themselves, attempting to improve their lot through the violent appropriation of labor from others on plantations. Combining archival and archaeological evidence, the book shows how modern expectations of “Quakerly” behavior are not met in this community. Instead, we find Quakerism being negotiated in creative ways that fit within a slavery-based economy and society: through foods, relationships with other planters and the enslaved people themselves, and social advancement. Community is often conceived as something every member shares equally, but the historical archaeology approach and anthropological analysis of this volume shows how social groups like religions are full of conflicting perspectives and goals—in this case, conflicts which led to the group’s end after one generation. By examining how one small group interpreted Quakerism’s ideals in the contrasting environment of the eighteenth-century Caribbean, we learn what a religion is and how it matters in the daily lives of its members.
ADRIAN DAVIES
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198208204
- eISBN:
- 9780191677953
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198208204.003.0013
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History, History of Religion
This chapter discusses the growth of Quakerism after the Restoration and its decline. An examination of the figures detailing the membership of ...
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This chapter discusses the growth of Quakerism after the Restoration and its decline. An examination of the figures detailing the membership of the movement helps explain why so many of the official pronouncements of the Society emphasized the need to maintain Quaker children within the movement starting from the 1690s onwards. It has been suggested that Quakerism settled in those areas where Puritanism had never been strong. For this reason, it is believed that Quakerism had shallow roots in Essex. The consensus hitherto has been that Quakerism was predominantly a rural movement. In the 18th century, Voltaire hinted that the decline of Quakerism in London was because of the involvement of the members and success in commerce.Less
This chapter discusses the growth of Quakerism after the Restoration and its decline. An examination of the figures detailing the membership of the movement helps explain why so many of the official pronouncements of the Society emphasized the need to maintain Quaker children within the movement starting from the 1690s onwards. It has been suggested that Quakerism settled in those areas where Puritanism had never been strong. For this reason, it is believed that Quakerism had shallow roots in Essex. The consensus hitherto has been that Quakerism was predominantly a rural movement. In the 18th century, Voltaire hinted that the decline of Quakerism in London was because of the involvement of the members and success in commerce.
ADRIAN DAVIES
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198208204
- eISBN:
- 9780191677953
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198208204.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History, History of Religion
This introductory chapter sets out the purpose of the book, which is to consider the social consequences of religious belief. It discovers the ...
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This introductory chapter sets out the purpose of the book, which is to consider the social consequences of religious belief. It discovers the relationship between converts to and followers of the Quaker faith, and with whom they shared their everyday lives in local society. It uses a wide range of primary source materials which demonstrate that Quakers were not marginal and isolated people.Less
This introductory chapter sets out the purpose of the book, which is to consider the social consequences of religious belief. It discovers the relationship between converts to and followers of the Quaker faith, and with whom they shared their everyday lives in local society. It uses a wide range of primary source materials which demonstrate that Quakers were not marginal and isolated people.
ADRIAN DAVIES
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198208204
- eISBN:
- 9780191677953
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198208204.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History, History of Religion
This chapter discusses the distrust between Quakers and the clergy. Suspicion and hatred between churchmen and Quakers were provoked by the ...
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This chapter discusses the distrust between Quakers and the clergy. Suspicion and hatred between churchmen and Quakers were provoked by the doctrinal views of Friends, clear refusal to accept church authority, and the Quaker challenge to the legitimacy of tithe payments. Quakerism carried in its train more than aggressive proselytizing in the parish and disrespect of clerical authority.Less
This chapter discusses the distrust between Quakers and the clergy. Suspicion and hatred between churchmen and Quakers were provoked by the doctrinal views of Friends, clear refusal to accept church authority, and the Quaker challenge to the legitimacy of tithe payments. Quakerism carried in its train more than aggressive proselytizing in the parish and disrespect of clerical authority.
Paul Salzman
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199261048
- eISBN:
- 9780191717482
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199261048.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, Women's Literature, 18th-century Literature
This chapter explores the many forms of women's prophetic writings, many of which redefined religious possibilities for women, especially within radical religious groups, which accordingly allowed ...
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This chapter explores the many forms of women's prophetic writings, many of which redefined religious possibilities for women, especially within radical religious groups, which accordingly allowed for a political intervention on their part. It utilizes four women to represent different strands in this phenomenon. It views the different ways in which their writing was received and either abandoned or preserved. It first analyses Lady Eleanor Davies/Douglas' writings, an aristocratic woman whose visions and prophecies ultimately set her against both King Charles I and Cromwell. It then examines the writings of the fifth Monarchist Anna Trapnel, whose visions occurred during a particularly delicate stage in the Interregnum during the Barebones Parliament (1654). The third is Margaret Fell, who was the most significant Quaker besides George Fox in the 17th century. Lastly, Jane Lead's writings, in contrast to Fell's, lapsed into obscurity with the decline of her religious group, the Philadelphian Society.Less
This chapter explores the many forms of women's prophetic writings, many of which redefined religious possibilities for women, especially within radical religious groups, which accordingly allowed for a political intervention on their part. It utilizes four women to represent different strands in this phenomenon. It views the different ways in which their writing was received and either abandoned or preserved. It first analyses Lady Eleanor Davies/Douglas' writings, an aristocratic woman whose visions and prophecies ultimately set her against both King Charles I and Cromwell. It then examines the writings of the fifth Monarchist Anna Trapnel, whose visions occurred during a particularly delicate stage in the Interregnum during the Barebones Parliament (1654). The third is Margaret Fell, who was the most significant Quaker besides George Fox in the 17th century. Lastly, Jane Lead's writings, in contrast to Fell's, lapsed into obscurity with the decline of her religious group, the Philadelphian Society.
William W. J. Knox
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748624096
- eISBN:
- 9780748672264
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748624096.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
Explores through Eliza Wigham's life the public life of women and chronicles the origin and development of the women's movement in Scotland.
Explores through Eliza Wigham's life the public life of women and chronicles the origin and development of the women's movement in Scotland.
Jessica Fay
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- June 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780198816201
- eISBN:
- 9780191853555
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198816201.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism
This is the first extended study of Wordsworth’s complex, subtle, and often conflicted engagement with the material and cultural legacies of monasticism. It reveals that a set of topographical, ...
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This is the first extended study of Wordsworth’s complex, subtle, and often conflicted engagement with the material and cultural legacies of monasticism. It reveals that a set of topographical, antiquarian, and ecclesiastical sources consulted by Wordsworth between 1806 and 1822 provided extensive details of the routines, structures, landscapes, and architecture of the medieval monastic system. In addition to offering a new way of thinking about religious dimensions of Wordsworth’s work and his views on Roman Catholicism, the book offers original insights into a range of important issues in his poetry and prose, including the historical resonances of the landscape, local attachment and memorialization, gardening and cultivation, Quakerism and silence, solitude and community, pastoral retreat and national identity. Wordsworth’s interest in monastic history helps explain significant stylistic developments in his writing. In this often-neglected phase of his career, Wordsworth undertakes a series of generic experiments in order to craft poems capable of reformulating and refining taste; he adapts popular narrative forms and challenges pastoral conventions, creating difficult, austere poetry that, he hopes, will encourage contemplation and subdue readers’ appetites for exciting narrative action. This book thus argues for the significance and innovative qualities of some of Wordsworth’s most marginalized writings. It grants poems such as The White Doe of Rylstone, The Excursion, and Ecclesiastical Sketches the centrality Wordsworth believed they deserved, and reveals how Wordsworth’s engagement with the monastic history of his local region inflected his radical strategies for the creation of taste.Less
This is the first extended study of Wordsworth’s complex, subtle, and often conflicted engagement with the material and cultural legacies of monasticism. It reveals that a set of topographical, antiquarian, and ecclesiastical sources consulted by Wordsworth between 1806 and 1822 provided extensive details of the routines, structures, landscapes, and architecture of the medieval monastic system. In addition to offering a new way of thinking about religious dimensions of Wordsworth’s work and his views on Roman Catholicism, the book offers original insights into a range of important issues in his poetry and prose, including the historical resonances of the landscape, local attachment and memorialization, gardening and cultivation, Quakerism and silence, solitude and community, pastoral retreat and national identity. Wordsworth’s interest in monastic history helps explain significant stylistic developments in his writing. In this often-neglected phase of his career, Wordsworth undertakes a series of generic experiments in order to craft poems capable of reformulating and refining taste; he adapts popular narrative forms and challenges pastoral conventions, creating difficult, austere poetry that, he hopes, will encourage contemplation and subdue readers’ appetites for exciting narrative action. This book thus argues for the significance and innovative qualities of some of Wordsworth’s most marginalized writings. It grants poems such as The White Doe of Rylstone, The Excursion, and Ecclesiastical Sketches the centrality Wordsworth believed they deserved, and reveals how Wordsworth’s engagement with the monastic history of his local region inflected his radical strategies for the creation of taste.
Hilary Hinds
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719081576
- eISBN:
- 9781781702383
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719081576.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
This chapter summarises the preceding discussions and presents some concluding thoughts from the author. Quakerism was one answer to the pressure and uncertainty of the dominant predestinarian ...
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This chapter summarises the preceding discussions and presents some concluding thoughts from the author. Quakerism was one answer to the pressure and uncertainty of the dominant predestinarian position on election and reprobation. Saint and sinner were unified, co-existing in the same human subject, as in more orthodox reformed interpretations, but, for Quakers, in a different configuration. Quakerism announced the reality of a single spiritual condition: the universally present inward light, available to all. The sharply bifurcated doubleness of the human condition (those who turned to, and those who refused so to turn) hereby revealed itself to be unreliable – itself evidence of human frailty and sin, in people's refusal to accept the unity with the divine and with humanity that was delivered by an indwelling Christ. Quakers reversed the Calvinist structural dynamic of spiritual subjectivity, perceiving duality to be definitive only of the fallen human state, which masked the greater reality, both actual and potential, of divine unity.Less
This chapter summarises the preceding discussions and presents some concluding thoughts from the author. Quakerism was one answer to the pressure and uncertainty of the dominant predestinarian position on election and reprobation. Saint and sinner were unified, co-existing in the same human subject, as in more orthodox reformed interpretations, but, for Quakers, in a different configuration. Quakerism announced the reality of a single spiritual condition: the universally present inward light, available to all. The sharply bifurcated doubleness of the human condition (those who turned to, and those who refused so to turn) hereby revealed itself to be unreliable – itself evidence of human frailty and sin, in people's refusal to accept the unity with the divine and with humanity that was delivered by an indwelling Christ. Quakers reversed the Calvinist structural dynamic of spiritual subjectivity, perceiving duality to be definitive only of the fallen human state, which masked the greater reality, both actual and potential, of divine unity.
Patricia Appelbaum
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807832677
- eISBN:
- 9781469605975
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807889763_appelbaum.11
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
This chapter examines the particular interface of mystical spirituality with mainline Protestantism and pacifism, using sources from the 1920s through the 1950s. It presents a historical text that ...
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This chapter examines the particular interface of mystical spirituality with mainline Protestantism and pacifism, using sources from the 1920s through the 1950s. It presents a historical text that was central to mainline Protestant mystical practice; four spiritual teachers whose thought and practice were well known; and testimony from ordinary practitioners of Protestant pacifist mysticism. The discussion shows how mystical spirituality functioned in part as a religious response to modernity, and how liberal Quakerism offered the primary institutional space for it.Less
This chapter examines the particular interface of mystical spirituality with mainline Protestantism and pacifism, using sources from the 1920s through the 1950s. It presents a historical text that was central to mainline Protestant mystical practice; four spiritual teachers whose thought and practice were well known; and testimony from ordinary practitioners of Protestant pacifist mysticism. The discussion shows how mystical spirituality functioned in part as a religious response to modernity, and how liberal Quakerism offered the primary institutional space for it.
Kathryn Kish Sklar
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300115932
- eISBN:
- 9780300137866
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300115932.003.0012
- Subject:
- History, Social History
During a speaking tour of Massachusetts in 1837, Angelina Grimké, one of the most popular speakers for the American Anti-Slavery Society, defended women's rights as a cause equal in importance to ...
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During a speaking tour of Massachusetts in 1837, Angelina Grimké, one of the most popular speakers for the American Anti-Slavery Society, defended women's rights as a cause equal in importance to slavery. Her oratory ushered in a new path for women in the antislavery movement and inspired the emergence of an autonomous women's rights movement in 1848. This chapter examines how and why Grimké successfully launched a women's rights movement within American abolitionism. Drawing on Grimké's private writings, it traces the spiritual odyssey that guided her into abolitionist feminism and how powerful international influences, such as Quakerism, repressed and radicalized her quest. It also looks at how religion enabled Grimké to re-create herself and explore new forms of citizenship as well as subjective aspects of her personal identity.Less
During a speaking tour of Massachusetts in 1837, Angelina Grimké, one of the most popular speakers for the American Anti-Slavery Society, defended women's rights as a cause equal in importance to slavery. Her oratory ushered in a new path for women in the antislavery movement and inspired the emergence of an autonomous women's rights movement in 1848. This chapter examines how and why Grimké successfully launched a women's rights movement within American abolitionism. Drawing on Grimké's private writings, it traces the spiritual odyssey that guided her into abolitionist feminism and how powerful international influences, such as Quakerism, repressed and radicalized her quest. It also looks at how religion enabled Grimké to re-create herself and explore new forms of citizenship as well as subjective aspects of her personal identity.
Paul B. Moyer
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801454134
- eISBN:
- 9781501701450
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801454134.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, American History: early to 18th Century
This chapter presents Jemima Wilkinson's The Universal Friend's Advice to Those of the Same Religious Society, a pamphlet containing the Comforter's religious doctrines and practices. The primary ...
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This chapter presents Jemima Wilkinson's The Universal Friend's Advice to Those of the Same Religious Society, a pamphlet containing the Comforter's religious doctrines and practices. The primary focus of the Friend's Advice was to prescribe a set of behaviors, along with some details on how converts should lead their daily lives and engage in worship. In particular, it issued restrictions on how the faithful should dress, speak, and interact with nonbelievers. The article also shows that the Public Universal Friend's advanced coherent set of beliefs and behaviors were derived from the religious traditions of Quakerism, New Light evangelism, as well as Christian millennialism.Less
This chapter presents Jemima Wilkinson's The Universal Friend's Advice to Those of the Same Religious Society, a pamphlet containing the Comforter's religious doctrines and practices. The primary focus of the Friend's Advice was to prescribe a set of behaviors, along with some details on how converts should lead their daily lives and engage in worship. In particular, it issued restrictions on how the faithful should dress, speak, and interact with nonbelievers. The article also shows that the Public Universal Friend's advanced coherent set of beliefs and behaviors were derived from the religious traditions of Quakerism, New Light evangelism, as well as Christian millennialism.
J. Barton Scott
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226368672
- eISBN:
- 9780226368702
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226368702.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This chapter analyses the literary and political career of English Quaker and anticolonial activist William Howitt, with particular focus on his Popular History of Priestcraft in All Ages and Nations ...
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This chapter analyses the literary and political career of English Quaker and anticolonial activist William Howitt, with particular focus on his Popular History of Priestcraft in All Ages and Nations (1833). It uses Howitt to suggest the extent to which the figure of the despotic Brahmin had become important within Britain as a means of critiquing institutions like the Church of England. It also argues that during the nineteenth century Protestantism was not a fixed entity that could simply be exported to the colonies. Rather, It was being put under pressure in England at roughly the same time that it was being rethought from the colonial margins. Howitt, on a small scale, indicates how this was the case. Leaving the Society of Friends behind, he worked to reinvent the dissenting spirit of Quaker founder George Fox, finding the spirit of Protestantism in Romantic poetry, radical politics, spiritualist séances, and (perhaps most surprisingly) Roman Catholicism.Less
This chapter analyses the literary and political career of English Quaker and anticolonial activist William Howitt, with particular focus on his Popular History of Priestcraft in All Ages and Nations (1833). It uses Howitt to suggest the extent to which the figure of the despotic Brahmin had become important within Britain as a means of critiquing institutions like the Church of England. It also argues that during the nineteenth century Protestantism was not a fixed entity that could simply be exported to the colonies. Rather, It was being put under pressure in England at roughly the same time that it was being rethought from the colonial margins. Howitt, on a small scale, indicates how this was the case. Leaving the Society of Friends behind, he worked to reinvent the dissenting spirit of Quaker founder George Fox, finding the spirit of Protestantism in Romantic poetry, radical politics, spiritualist séances, and (perhaps most surprisingly) Roman Catholicism.
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780853239765
- eISBN:
- 9781846313868
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853239765.003.0010
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
This chapter contains Weber's second reply to Rachfahl. In this reply, Weber insists that Rachfahl still remain adamant about his claims even after Weber addressed Rachfahl's arguments in his ...
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This chapter contains Weber's second reply to Rachfahl. In this reply, Weber insists that Rachfahl still remain adamant about his claims even after Weber addressed Rachfahl's arguments in his previous reply, and because of that, Weber aims for two goals in his second reply. His first goal is to reestablish the foundations of the concept of the ‘spirit’ in contrast to Rachfahl's notion that it lacked polemic relevance, and his second goal is to bring a few pages of his thesis to Rachfahl's attention. Weber concludes that Rachfahl is simply the type of person who prefers to be perceived as correct by people who did not actually read his thesis.Less
This chapter contains Weber's second reply to Rachfahl. In this reply, Weber insists that Rachfahl still remain adamant about his claims even after Weber addressed Rachfahl's arguments in his previous reply, and because of that, Weber aims for two goals in his second reply. His first goal is to reestablish the foundations of the concept of the ‘spirit’ in contrast to Rachfahl's notion that it lacked polemic relevance, and his second goal is to bring a few pages of his thesis to Rachfahl's attention. Weber concludes that Rachfahl is simply the type of person who prefers to be perceived as correct by people who did not actually read his thesis.
John M. Chenoweth
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781683400110
- eISBN:
- 9781683400288
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9781683400110.003.0001
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
This introductory chapter sketches the questions and goals of the overall project and the needed background information about Quakerism. It introduces the Tortola Monthly Meeting of the Religious ...
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This introductory chapter sketches the questions and goals of the overall project and the needed background information about Quakerism. It introduces the Tortola Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (“Quakers”) which formed in the British Virgin Islands about 1740 and addresses how archaeology can approach the study of religion and religious communities. This chapter also serves as an introduction to Quakerism itself, including its ideology based on individual, un-mediated communion with God, and a brief history of the group from its foundation in the political and economic turmoil of mid-seventeenth-century England, to the “Quietism” of wealthy “Quaker Grandees” in Philadelphia, to a nineteenth and twentieth century history of schism and reunion around pacifism. The Quaker structure of Monthly, Quarterly, and Yearly meetings is introduced, and connected to both community oversight and support structures. Finally, this chapter introduces three main Quaker ideals—simplicity, equality, and peace—which will be interrogated throughout the work as they change in their interactions with Caribbean slavery and geography.Less
This introductory chapter sketches the questions and goals of the overall project and the needed background information about Quakerism. It introduces the Tortola Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (“Quakers”) which formed in the British Virgin Islands about 1740 and addresses how archaeology can approach the study of religion and religious communities. This chapter also serves as an introduction to Quakerism itself, including its ideology based on individual, un-mediated communion with God, and a brief history of the group from its foundation in the political and economic turmoil of mid-seventeenth-century England, to the “Quietism” of wealthy “Quaker Grandees” in Philadelphia, to a nineteenth and twentieth century history of schism and reunion around pacifism. The Quaker structure of Monthly, Quarterly, and Yearly meetings is introduced, and connected to both community oversight and support structures. Finally, this chapter introduces three main Quaker ideals—simplicity, equality, and peace—which will be interrogated throughout the work as they change in their interactions with Caribbean slavery and geography.
