Hinds, Hilary
George Fox and Early Quaker Culture
- ISBN 13:
- 9780719081576
- author:
- Hinds, Hilary
- format:
- HardBack
- publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2011
- Pages:
- 232
- Dimensions:
- 156mm X 234mm
- Genre:
- Religious History Textbook
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 4 working days
Description
George Fox and Early Quaker Culture by Hilary Hinds This study explores the founding principles and practices of Quakerism, focusing on how the Light Within became the core of this seventeenth-century movement. By combining literary and historical approaches, Hinds examines the cultural consequences of a fundamental belief that blurred the boundaries between human and divine. Close readings of George Fox's journal are put in dialogue with other early Friends' voices and their critics to argue that the Light Within shaped Quaker spirituality and its relationship with the world. This book offers a fresh perspective on the Quaker movement, spirituality, and changing meanings of religious practice in the early modern period. Hinds' work will be of interest to scholars, students, and those concerned with the Quaker movement, spirituality, and the cultural context of seventeenth-century England.
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