The Reformation of American Quakerism, 1748-1783University of Pennsylvania Press, 28.08.2007 - 376 Seiten The Reformation of American Quakerism, 1748-1783 offers a detailed history of the withdrawal of the Society of Friends from mainstream America in the years between 1748 and the end of the American Revolution. Jack D. Marietta examines the causes, course, and consequences, both social and political, of the Quakers' retreat from prominent positions in civil government while at the same time developing a more distinctive and "purified" religious community. These changes amounted to a watershed in the greater history of the Society of Friends, a turning away from its engagement with the world on behalf of a Whig political philosophy and toward a role as critic and gadfly on the periphery of political society. |
Inhalt
Quaker Discipline | 3 |
The Beginnings of Reform 17481755 | 32 |
Personal Behavior and Families 17551783 | 46 |
The Labors and Faith of the Reformers | 73 |
New Testimonies | 97 |
Prologue to Reform 17391755 | 131 |
Withdrawal from Government 1756 | 150 |
Perfecting Pacifism 17561758 | 169 |
Reformation Stalled 17631765 | 187 |
The Exhaustion of Quaker Politics 17651775 | 203 |
Reformation in the Revolution | 251 |
Abbreviations | 281 |
Notes | 287 |
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The Private City: Philadelphia in Three Periods of Its Growth Sam Bass Warner Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1987 |
The Transformation of American Quakerism: Orthodox Friends, 1800-1907 Thomas D. Hamm Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1988 |