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Visionary Women : ecstatic prophecy in seventeenth-century England /

"This study of radical prophecy in 17th-century England explores the significance of gender for religious visionaries between 1650 and 1700. Phyllis Mack focuses on the Society of Friends, or Quakers, the largest radical sectarian group active during the English Civil War and Interregnum. The m...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mack, Phyllis
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1992.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Feminine symbolism and female prophecy : gender and knowledge in the world turned upside down
  • Woman, nature, and spirit
  • Male and female power : visionary women and the social order
  • Talking back : women as prophets during the Civil War and Interregnum, 1640-1664
  • Friends in Eden : gender and spirituality in Early Quakerism, 1650-1664
  • Ecstasy and self-transcendence
  • Prophecy
  • Ecstasy and everyday life
  • How were Quakers radical?
  • Visionary orders : women in the Quaker Movement, 1664-1700
  • The snake in the garden : Quaker politics and the origin of the women's meeting
  • The mystical housewife
  • Selfhood and Enlightenment : Quaker preaching and discipline, 1664-1700.