Visionary women : ecstatic prophecy in seventeenth-century England / Phyllis Mack.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mack, Phyllis, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prophecy--Christianity--History--17th century.

Prophecy.

Quaker women--History--17th century--England.

Quaker women.

Quaker women--England--History--17th century.

Spirituality--History--17th century--England.

Spirituality.

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

Spirituality--England--History--17th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (486 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2019

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [1992]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study of radical prophecy in 17th-century England explores the significance of gender for religious visionaries between 1650 and 1700. Phyllis Mack focuses on the Society of Friends, or Quakers, the largest radical sectarian group active during the English Civil War and Interregnum. The meeting records, correspondence, almanacs, autobiographical and religious writings left by the early Quakers enable Mack to present a textured portrait of their evolving spirituality. Parallel sources on men and women provide a unique opportunity to pose theoretical questions about the meaning of gender, such as whether a "; women's spirituality"; can be identified, or whether religious women are more or less emotional than men.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations Used in the Footnotes

Author's Note

Introduction

CHAPTER ONE. Woman, Nature, and Spirit

CHAPTER TWO. Male and Female Power: Visionary Women and the Social Order

CHAPTER THREE. Talking Back: Women as Prophets during the Civil War and Interregnum, 1640-1655

CHAPTER FOUR Ecstasy and Self-Transcendence

CHAPTER FIVE. Prophecy

CHAPTER SIX. Ecstasy and Everyday Life

CHAPTER SEVEN. How Were Quakers Radical?

CHAPTER NINE. The Mystical Housewife

CHAPTER TEN. Selfhood and Enlightenment: Quaker Preaching and Discipline, 1664-1700

Epilogue

APPENDIX ONE. Well-Known Women Visionaries of the 1640s and Early 1650s

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

0-520-91558-5

0-585-07902-1

OCLC:

1153458068