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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... mind and body was different . In this respect , contem- porary thinking more closely resembled that of a modern neurologist than that of a modern layperson . For both groups , mental processes are defined in terms of physical processes ...
... mind and body was different . In this respect , contem- porary thinking more closely resembled that of a modern neurologist than that of a modern layperson . For both groups , mental processes are defined in terms of physical processes ...
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... mind and body , seven- teenth - century men and women felt certain kinds of knowledge . They described their own spirituality not as an ethereal , disembodied state but as polymorphous , subterranean energy , more akin to the power ...
... mind and body , seven- teenth - century men and women felt certain kinds of knowledge . They described their own spirituality not as an ethereal , disembodied state but as polymorphous , subterranean energy , more akin to the power ...
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... mind was easily permeated not only by outside influences but by her own strong inner drives . Thus , a feeling of anger might seep involuntarily into the soul and pollute her religious ideals ; heretical beliefs might seep into her ...
... mind was easily permeated not only by outside influences but by her own strong inner drives . Thus , a feeling of anger might seep involuntarily into the soul and pollute her religious ideals ; heretical beliefs might seep into her ...
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... mind.34 McManus , 361–68 . A similar story of female piety run rampant told of the wife of an honest tradesman who ... Minds weak and feminine : for some , like a too warm Sun , it melts " ( The Virgin Mary . A Sermon Preach'd in St ...
... mind.34 McManus , 361–68 . A similar story of female piety run rampant told of the wife of an honest tradesman who ... Minds weak and feminine : for some , like a too warm Sun , it melts " ( The Virgin Mary . A Sermon Preach'd in St ...
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... mind , he shall be gentle , faithful , meek , liberal , mixed with stubbornness , by reason whereof he shall be of great authority , gentle , kind . . . and a great banquetor .... He shall be very ingenious , witty , artificial , sober ...
... mind , he shall be gentle , faithful , meek , liberal , mixed with stubbornness , by reason whereof he shall be of great authority , gentle , kind . . . and a great banquetor .... He shall be very ingenious , witty , artificial , sober ...
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