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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... 1640-1655 87 PART TWO : FRIENDS IN EDEN : GENDER AND SPIRITUALITY IN EARLY QUAKERISM , 1650-1664 4. Ecstasy and Self - Transcendence 5. Prophecy 127 165 6. Ecstasy and Everyday Life 7. How Were Quakers Radical vii Contents.
... 1640-1655 87 PART TWO : FRIENDS IN EDEN : GENDER AND SPIRITUALITY IN EARLY QUAKERISM , 1650-1664 4. Ecstasy and Self - Transcendence 5. Prophecy 127 165 6. Ecstasy and Everyday Life 7. How Were Quakers Radical vii Contents.
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... Radical ? PART THREE : VISIONARY ORDER : WOMEN IN THE QUAKER MOVEMENT , 1664-1700 8. The Snake in the Garden : Quaker Politics and the Origin of the Women's Meeting 9. The Mystical Housewife 10. Selfhood and Enlightenment : Quaker ...
... Radical ? PART THREE : VISIONARY ORDER : WOMEN IN THE QUAKER MOVEMENT , 1664-1700 8. The Snake in the Garden : Quaker Politics and the Origin of the Women's Meeting 9. The Mystical Housewife 10. Selfhood and Enlightenment : Quaker ...
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... Radicals in the Seven- teenth Century , ed . Richard L. Greaves and Robert Zaller ( Brighton , 1982-84 ) Dictionary of Quaker Biography , typescript , Haverford Col- lege Library and Library of the Society of Friends , London Early ...
... Radicals in the Seven- teenth Century , ed . Richard L. Greaves and Robert Zaller ( Brighton , 1982-84 ) Dictionary of Quaker Biography , typescript , Haverford Col- lege Library and Library of the Society of Friends , London Early ...
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... radical movements that championed the poor and deprived would also champion the increased authority of women . Yet we will see that those sects that were most radical in challenging traditional social and eco- nomic relationships were ...
... radical movements that championed the poor and deprived would also champion the increased authority of women . Yet we will see that those sects that were most radical in challenging traditional social and eco- nomic relationships were ...
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... radical social change and laid off when these activities were no longer timely . In picking up and handling these tools of analysis , some of them both dazzling and daunting to the nonexpert , historians of gender might view themselves ...
... radical social change and laid off when these activities were no longer timely . In picking up and handling these tools of analysis , some of them both dazzling and daunting to the nonexpert , historians of gender might view themselves ...
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