George Fox and early quaker culture / Hilary Hinds.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hinds, Hilary, author.

Series:

Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)

Manchester Studies in Imperialism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fox, George, 1624-1691.

Fox, George.

Society of Friends--History--17th century.

Society of Friends.

Quakers--England--History--17th century.

Quakers.

Quakers--History--17th century.

England--Church history--17th century.

England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 215 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Apr 2026).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781781702383

1781702381

9781847794598

1847794599

OCLC:

818847435