Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century EnglandThis 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 meeting records, correspondence, almanacs, autobiographical and religious writings left by the early Quakers enable Mack to present a textured portrait of their evolving spirituality. Parallel sources on men and women provide a unique opportunity to pose theoretical questions about the meaning of gender, such as whether a "women's spirituality" can be identified, or whether religious women are more or less emotional than men. |
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... described their own spirituality not as an ethereal , disembodied state but as polymorphous , subterranean energy , more akin to the power Freud ascribed to sex than it was to the diluted piety of an eighteenth - century pillar of the ...
... described their own spirituality not as an ethereal , disembodied state but as polymorphous , subterranean energy , more akin to the power Freud ascribed to sex than it was to the diluted piety of an eighteenth - century pillar of the ...
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... described as amphibious . As civilized beings — on land , so to speak — women were portrayed as members of a particular class and upholders of cultural values , just as men were . Yet women were also portrayed as liminal creatures ...
... described as amphibious . As civilized beings — on land , so to speak — women were portrayed as members of a particular class and upholders of cultural values , just as men were . Yet women were also portrayed as liminal creatures ...
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... That Most Unnaturally at One Time Murdered Two of Her Own Children . . . " ( London , 1616 ) , reprinted in Half Humankind , ed . Henderson and Drake , was described as a lovely , intelligent , Woman , Nature , and Spirit 27.
... That Most Unnaturally at One Time Murdered Two of Her Own Children . . . " ( London , 1616 ) , reprinted in Half Humankind , ed . Henderson and Drake , was described as a lovely , intelligent , Woman , Nature , and Spirit 27.
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... described and condemned in Joseph Swetnam , The Arraignment of Lewd , Idle , Froward , and Unconstant Women . . . ( London , 1615 ) , reprinted in Half Humankind , ed . Hen- derson and McManus , 189-217 . 32. R. Bishop , Trodden Down ...
... described and condemned in Joseph Swetnam , The Arraignment of Lewd , Idle , Froward , and Unconstant Women . . . ( London , 1615 ) , reprinted in Half Humankind , ed . Hen- derson and McManus , 189-217 . 32. R. Bishop , Trodden Down ...
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... described the characteristics of those born under the sign Sagittarius , the male pos- sesses a good wit , and a sharp . . . . Likewise touching the disposition of the mind , he shall be gentle , faithful , meek , liberal , mixed with ...
... described the characteristics of those born under the sign Sagittarius , the male pos- sesses a good wit , and a sharp . . . . Likewise touching the disposition of the mind , he shall be gentle , faithful , meek , liberal , mixed with ...
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