Author: Robert Macnair (M.A.)Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
The Decline of Quakerism ...
Author: Robert Macnair (M.A.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
The Decline of Quakerism: an Enquiry Into the Causes which Have Led to the Present Moral and Numerical Weakness of the Society of Friends
Author: Robert MacnairPublisher:
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Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The Decline of Quakerism; an Enquiry Into the Causes which Have Led to the Present Moral and Numerical Weakness of the Society of Friends
Author: Robert MACNAIR (M.A., the Younger.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe
Author: Jonathan BarryPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521638753
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
This important collection brings together both established figures and new researchers to offer fresh perspectives on the ever-controversial subject of the history of witchcraft. Using Keith Thomas's Religion and the Decline of Magic as a starting point, the contributors explore the changes of the last twenty-five years in the understanding of early modern witchcraft, and suggest new approaches, especially concerning the cultural dimensions of the subject. Witchcraft cases must be understood as power struggles, over gender and ideology as well as social relationships, with a crucial role played by alternative representations. Witchcraft was always a contested idea, never fully established in early modern culture but much harder to dislodge than has usually been assumed. The essays are European in scope, with examples from Germany, France, and the Spanish expansion into the New World, as well as a strong core of English material.
The Quakers, 1656-1723
Author: Richard C. AllenPublisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN: 9780271081205
Category : Quakers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Explores the second period of the development of Quakerism, specifically focusing on changes in Quaker theology, authority and institutional structures, and political trajectories.
Quaker Nantucket
Author: Robert J. LeachPublisher:
ISBN: 9780963891075
Category : Nantucket (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism
Author: Stephen W. AngellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107136601
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
A vigorous, innovative, compelling introduction to Quakers, fully global in reach, and utilizing the best Quaker scholars from every continent.
Moral Commerce
Author: Julie L. HolcombPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501706624
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
How can the simple choice of a men’s suit be a moral statement and a political act? When the suit is made of free-labor wool rather than slave-grown cotton. In Moral Commerce, Julie L. Holcomb traces the genealogy of the boycott of slave labor from its seventeenth-century Quaker origins through its late nineteenth-century decline. In their failures and in their successes, in their resilience and their persistence, antislavery consumers help us understand the possibilities and the limitations of moral commerce. Quaker antislavery rhetoric began with protests against the slave trade before expanding to include boycotts of the use and products of slave labor. For more than one hundred years, British and American abolitionists highlighted consumers’ complicity in sustaining slavery. The boycott of slave labor was the first consumer movement to transcend the boundaries of nation, gender, and race in an effort by reformers to change the conditions of production. The movement attracted a broad cross-section of abolitionists: conservative and radical, Quaker and non-Quaker, male and female, white and black. The men and women who boycotted slave labor created diverse, biracial networks that worked to reorganize the transatlantic economy on an ethical basis. Even when they acted locally, supporters embraced a global vision, mobilizing the boycott as a powerful force that could transform the marketplace. For supporters of the boycott, the abolition of slavery was a step toward a broader goal of a just and humane economy. The boycott failed to overcome the power structures that kept slave labor in place; nonetheless, the movement’s historic successes and failures have important implications for modern consumers.
The Story of Quakerism in Scotland
Author: George B BurnetPublisher: Lutterworth Press
ISBN: 071884226X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Covering three hundred years of history, G.B. Burnet uncovers the beginnings and downfall of the Scottish Quaker movement, which, during its period of 1650-1850, had an estimated 1500 adherents. The story of Quakerism can be divided into four main periods: its rise during the few years of Cromwell's rule; the 'epic' period during the latter Stuart dynasty, during which it reached a height and simultaneously underwent its cruellest persecutions in Aberdeen; its gradual decline with occasional surges of social activity; and its dwindling activities in the nineteenth century. Burnet writes with clarity and depth on the four main periods, taking the reader along the movement's history from Edinburgh to Aberdeen, Angus, the Borders, the Highlands and beyond. As the study approaches the end of the nineteenth century, Burnet addresses the ultimate question of why Quakerism failed in Scotland. An Epilogue, written by William H. Marwick, Clerk to the Friends' General Meeting for Scotland, expands still further onthe progress of Quakerism from 1850-1950. 'The pioneer Quakers were nothing if not strong in zeal to win converts, and the Movement had hardly obtained a footing in England before the 'dark carnal people' of Scotland were marked down for missionary enterprise.' Extract from Chapter 1.
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