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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mack, Phyllis
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1992.
Subjects:
1600-1699
Geschichte 1650-1700.
Quaker women > England > History > 17th century.
Prophecy > Christianity > History > 17th century.
Spirituality > Society of Friends > History > 17th century.
Spirituality > England > History > 17th century.
Prophecy (Christianity) > History > 17th century.
Spirituality > society of friends
Spirituality > history > 17th century
Quakeresses > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Prophétie > Christianisme > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Spiritualité > Société des Amis > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Spiritualité > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
15.70 history of Europe.
RELIGION > Christianity > Quaker.
Spirituality > Society of Friends
Prophecy > Christianity
Quaker women
Spirituality
Prophetin
Quäkerin
Profetieën.
Vrouwen.
Godsdienst.
England
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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