Overview
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 terms for the unique Quaker mode of embodying spirituality and inhabiting the world. In this important study of the cultural consequences of a bedrock belief, Hinds shows how the Quaker spiritual self was premised on a profound continuity between sinful subjects and godly omnipotence. This study 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. -- .
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Author: Hilary Hinds ,
Rebecca Mortimer
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.70cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.540kg
ISBN: 9780719081576
ISBN 10: 0719081572
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 31 August 2011
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
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) -- Stuart Masters. Quaker Studies 16/2 (2012) 20120401 well-constructed, tautly argued, genuinely interdisciplinary ... [a] study that enlists the aid of relevant theorizing to good effect; Michel de Certeau, Hayden White, and others figure functionally, and never decoratively, in her pages. Significantly, she dedicates her book to the memory of Peter Widdowson (1942-2009) . . one who devoted his working life to bringing literature and history into a closer, theoretically informed, working relationship. R.C. Richardson, Clio: A Journal of Literature, History and the Philosophy of History, Volume 41 Issue 3 -- R.C. Richardson. Clio: A Journal of Literature, History and the Philosophy of History, Volume 41 Issue 3 An insightful study of early Quaker culture...Highly recommended M. Cole, CHOICE May 2012 -- M. Cole. CHOICE
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) -- Stuart Masters. Quaker Studies 16/2 (2012) 20120401 '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, Volume 41 Issue 3 'An insightful study of early Quaker culture...Highly recommended' M. Cole, CHOICE May 2012 '... raises important questions for future research ... This is an important book for its contents,but it is also to be highly commended for the depth of its research, how well it is written and its accessibility.' Religious Studies Review, 38.3, 2012, p. 178 -- R.C. Richardson. Clio: A Journal of Literature, History and the Philosophy of History, Volume 41 Issue 3
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) 20120401
Author Information
Hilary Hinds is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Lancaster University.
