Author: Jane Shaw
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786731908
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
A feverish expectation of the end of the world seems an unlikely accompaniment to middle-class respectability. But it was precisely her interest in millennial thinking that led Jane Shaw to a group of genteel terraced townhouses in the English county town of Bedford. Inside their unassuming grey-brick exteriors Shaw found something extraordinary. For here, within the 'Ark', lived two members of the Panacea Society, last survivors of the remaining Southcottian prophetic communities in Britain. And these individuals were the heirs to a rich archive charting not just their own apocalyptic sect, but also the histories of the many groups and their leaders who from the early nineteenth century onwards had followed the beliefs of the self-styled prophetess and prospective mother of the Messiah ('Shiloh'), Joanna Southcott, who died in 1814. Placing its subjects in a global context, this is the first book to explore the religious thinking of all the Southcottians. It reveals a transnational movement with striking and innovative ideas: not just about prophecy and the coming apocalypse, but also about politics, gender, class and authority. The volume will sell to scholars and students of religion and cultural studies as well as social history.
The History of a Modern Millennial Movement
Author: Jane Shaw
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786731908
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
A feverish expectation of the end of the world seems an unlikely accompaniment to middle-class respectability. But it was precisely her interest in millennial thinking that led Jane Shaw to a group of genteel terraced townhouses in the English county town of Bedford. Inside their unassuming grey-brick exteriors Shaw found something extraordinary. For here, within the 'Ark', lived two members of the Panacea Society, last survivors of the remaining Southcottian prophetic communities in Britain. And these individuals were the heirs to a rich archive charting not just their own apocalyptic sect, but also the histories of the many groups and their leaders who from the early nineteenth century onwards had followed the beliefs of the self-styled prophetess and prospective mother of the Messiah ('Shiloh'), Joanna Southcott, who died in 1814. Placing its subjects in a global context, this is the first book to explore the religious thinking of all the Southcottians. It reveals a transnational movement with striking and innovative ideas: not just about prophecy and the coming apocalypse, but also about politics, gender, class and authority. The volume will sell to scholars and students of religion and cultural studies as well as social history.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786731908
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
A feverish expectation of the end of the world seems an unlikely accompaniment to middle-class respectability. But it was precisely her interest in millennial thinking that led Jane Shaw to a group of genteel terraced townhouses in the English county town of Bedford. Inside their unassuming grey-brick exteriors Shaw found something extraordinary. For here, within the 'Ark', lived two members of the Panacea Society, last survivors of the remaining Southcottian prophetic communities in Britain. And these individuals were the heirs to a rich archive charting not just their own apocalyptic sect, but also the histories of the many groups and their leaders who from the early nineteenth century onwards had followed the beliefs of the self-styled prophetess and prospective mother of the Messiah ('Shiloh'), Joanna Southcott, who died in 1814. Placing its subjects in a global context, this is the first book to explore the religious thinking of all the Southcottians. It reveals a transnational movement with striking and innovative ideas: not just about prophecy and the coming apocalypse, but also about politics, gender, class and authority. The volume will sell to scholars and students of religion and cultural studies as well as social history.
Communications for the Members of the Israelite Church, Given to John Wroe
Jane Lead and her Transnational Legacy
Author: Ariel Hessayon
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137396148
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This book concerns one of early modern England’s most prolific female authors, Jane Lead (1624–1704). Well-researched and clearly written, these essays focus on aspects of Lead’s thought including her attitudes towards Calvinism, mysticism, androgyny and the apocalypse, her role within the Philadelphian Society, and her transnational legacy - particularly in the German-speaking world and North America. This book suggests that Lead was far more radical than has been supposed. It argues that her religious journey had staging posts, namely an initial Calvinist obsession with sin and predestination wedded to a conventional Protestant understanding of the coming apocalypse, then the introduction of Jacob Boehme’s teachings and accompanying visions of a female personification of divine wisdom and finally, the adoption of the doctrine of the universal restoration of all humanity. It locates Lead within a continuing tradition of puritan pastoral thought, showing how her personalised view of the millennium differed from most of her contemporaries and discussing her influence on Pietists and their conceptions of bodily transmutation. It also discusses strategies available to female authors and manuscript circulation as an alternative to print and examines her initial continental reception, particularly within Pietist and Spiritualist circles. Lastly, it traces her afterlife through the relationship between the Philadelphians and the French Prophets, the interest in Lead among the followers of Joanna Southcott and her successors, and the appropriation of Lead’s prophecies by two twentieth century movements: Mary’s City of David and the Latter Rain movement.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137396148
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This book concerns one of early modern England’s most prolific female authors, Jane Lead (1624–1704). Well-researched and clearly written, these essays focus on aspects of Lead’s thought including her attitudes towards Calvinism, mysticism, androgyny and the apocalypse, her role within the Philadelphian Society, and her transnational legacy - particularly in the German-speaking world and North America. This book suggests that Lead was far more radical than has been supposed. It argues that her religious journey had staging posts, namely an initial Calvinist obsession with sin and predestination wedded to a conventional Protestant understanding of the coming apocalypse, then the introduction of Jacob Boehme’s teachings and accompanying visions of a female personification of divine wisdom and finally, the adoption of the doctrine of the universal restoration of all humanity. It locates Lead within a continuing tradition of puritan pastoral thought, showing how her personalised view of the millennium differed from most of her contemporaries and discussing her influence on Pietists and their conceptions of bodily transmutation. It also discusses strategies available to female authors and manuscript circulation as an alternative to print and examines her initial continental reception, particularly within Pietist and Spiritualist circles. Lastly, it traces her afterlife through the relationship between the Philadelphians and the French Prophets, the interest in Lead among the followers of Joanna Southcott and her successors, and the appropriation of Lead’s prophecies by two twentieth century movements: Mary’s City of David and the Latter Rain movement.
Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc
The Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1708
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1708
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
Quest for Authority in Eastern Australia, 1835-1851
Author: Michael Roe
Publisher:
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Attitudes towards Aborigines by squatters, European works & liberals; very brief history of missions in N.S.W. and work of missionaries in N.S.W. & Tasmania.
Publisher:
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Attitudes towards Aborigines by squatters, European works & liberals; very brief history of missions in N.S.W. and work of missionaries in N.S.W. & Tasmania.
The Bookseller
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1742
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1742
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
The Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Leslie Stephen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1492
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1492
Book Description
Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Leslie Stephen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1376
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1376
Book Description