Name Index to the Minutes of Bucks Quarterly Meeting (Society of Friends), 1683-1774
Title | Name Index to the Minutes of Bucks Quarterly Meeting (Society of Friends), 1683-1774 PDF eBook |
Author | Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Bucks Quarterly Meeting of Friends |
Publisher | |
Pages | 30 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | New Jersey |
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Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin
Title | Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 676 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Maryland |
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Prominent Families of New York
Title | Prominent Families of New York PDF eBook |
Author | Lyman Horace Weeks |
Publisher | |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 1898 |
Genre | New York (N.Y.) |
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The Baldwin genealogy from 1500 to 1881
Title | The Baldwin genealogy from 1500 to 1881 PDF eBook |
Author | C.C. Baldwin |
Publisher | Рипол Классик |
Pages | 989 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 5874721363 |
History of Chester County, Pennsylvania
Title | History of Chester County, Pennsylvania PDF eBook |
Author | J. Smith Futhey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1250 |
Release | 1881 |
Genre | Chester County (Pa.) |
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The Reformation of American Quakerism, 1748-1783
Title | The Reformation of American Quakerism, 1748-1783 PDF eBook |
Author | Jack D. Marietta |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 2007-08-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780812219890 |
The Reformation of American Quakerism, 1748-1783 offers a detailed history of the withdrawal of the Society of Friends from mainstream America in the years between 1748 and the end of the American Revolution. Jack D. Marietta examines the causes, course, and consequences, both social and political, of the Quakers' retreat from prominent positions in civil government while at the same time developing a more distinctive and "purified" religious community. These changes amounted to a watershed in the greater history of the Society of Friends, a turning away from its engagement with the world on behalf of a Whig political philosophy and toward a role as critic and gadfly on the periphery of political society. Less conspicuously but perhaps more dramatically, the internal transformation of the Society through the strengthening of the members' commitment to a host of Quaker sectarian values—among them exogamy, "guarded" childrearing, sexual continence, honesty, simplicity, humility, and asceticism—was enforced by the reformers' stern determination that members would either conform to these mores or face expulsion from the Society. These changes resulted in the revitalization of the society and made possible the Quakers' campaign against slavery, thus distinguishing them as the first group of people in history to espouse abolition. Marietta draws on a wealth of data: over 10,000 disciplinary cases in the Society's records dating from 1682. The author's description and evaluation of the role, status, and treatment of women in the Society is sympathetic, and what emerges from his interpretation is a sensitive portrayal not only of withdrawal but of the substitution of a vision different from the one that inspired the Holy Experiment.
History of Windham County, Connecticut: 1600-1760
Title | History of Windham County, Connecticut: 1600-1760 PDF eBook |
Author | Ellen Douglas Larned |
Publisher | |
Pages | 618 |
Release | 1874 |
Genre | Windham County (Conn.) |
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