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A Vivifying Spirit : Quaker Practice and Reform in Antebellum America /

American Quakerism changed dramatically in the antebellum era owing to both internal and external forces, including schism, industrialization, western migration, and reform activism. With the "Great Separation" of the 1820s and subsequent divisions during the 1840s and 1850s, new Quaker se...

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Autor principal: Lindman, Janet Moore (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2022]
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Author's Note: Dating System of the Religious Society of Friends
  • Introduction: Practical Friends
  • Part 1. Seed Time
  • 1 "Inward and Outward Consolation": Quaker Piety
  • 2 "To Cultivate Tender Minds": Educating Children
  • 3 "The Solemn Close": Rituals of Death
  • Part 2. Fruitless Exercise and Distress
  • 4 "A Dividing and Separating Spirit": The Hicksite Schism
  • 5 "Contentions, Divisions, and Subdivisions": Gurneyites v. Wilburites
  • 6 "Practical Righteousness": Reforming Friends
  • Part 3. A Work of Redemption
  • 7 "In the Advancement of Piety": Quaker Manuscript and Print Culture
  • 8 "Tokens of Remembrance": Friends, Memory, and History
  • Conclusion: American Quakerisms
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index