Holy Nation : The Transatlantic Quaker Ministry in an Age of Revolution /

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Early American Quakers have long been perceived as retiring separatists, but in Holy Nation Sarah Crabtree transforms our historical understanding of the sect by drawing on the sermons, diaries, and correspondence of Quakers themselves. Situating Quakerism within the larger intellectual and religiou...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Crabtree, Sarah (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2015]
Colección:American Beginnings, 1500-1900
Temas:
Quakers > Political activity > United States > History.
Quakers > United States > History.
Religion and civil society > United States > History.
Society of Friends > United States > History.
HISTORY / General.
us history, colonial period, 19th century, unites states, settlement, revolution, american quakers, sermons, diaries, historical research, correspondence, primary source documents, militant warriors, religion, religious societies, freedom, divine law, separatists, sects, atlantic world, transnational community, worldly governments, profane laws, persecution, society of friends, quakerism, faith, church and state, social issues, political activity.
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Sumario:Early American Quakers have long been perceived as retiring separatists, but in Holy Nation Sarah Crabtree transforms our historical understanding of the sect by drawing on the sermons, diaries, and correspondence of Quakers themselves. Situating Quakerism within the larger intellectual and religious undercurrents of the Atlantic World, Crabtree shows how Quakers forged a paradoxical sense of their place in the world as militant warriors fighting for peace. She argues that during the turbulent Age of Revolution and Reaction, the Religious Society of Friends forged a "holy nation," a transnational community of like-minded believers committed first and foremost to divine law and to one another. Declaring themselves citizens of their own nation served to underscore the decidedly unholy nature of the nation-state, worldly governments, and profane laws. As a result, campaigns of persecution against the Friends escalated as those in power moved to declare Quakers aliens and traitors to their home countries. Holy Nation convincingly shows that ideals and actions were inseparable for the Society of Friends, yielding an account of Quakerism that is simultaneously a history of the faith and its adherents and a history of its confrontations with the wider world. Ultimately, Crabtree argues, the conflicts experienced between obligations of church and state that Quakers faced can illuminate similar contemporary struggles.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (304 p.) : 3 halftones
ISBN:9780226255934
9783110690439
Acceso:restricted access

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