"As the Oracles of God"
Policing the Word in Colonial Quakerism
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2024
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-69397-5 (ISBN)
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-69397-5 (ISBN)
"As the Oracles of God" illuminates mechanisms of oversight which American Quakers employed to police the spoken and written word within their religious communities, with particular attention paid to issues of censorship within the colonial world.
"As the Oracles of God" examines how Quakers in colonial America sought to control both the written and spoken word in their religious communities. It looks at the ways in which American Friends set up committees to censor texts deemed heterodox, as well as the ways Quakers sought to moderate the words of believers through encouraging self-censorship as a way to access personal revelation, while also paying particular attention to the experiences of those who ran afoul of Friends' rules in these regards, either by publishing works without the consent of their meetings or speaking in un-Quakerly fashion. Debates over freedom of speech, the work asserts, defined early modern religious communities just as much as it did more formal legal institutions.
"As the Oracles of God" examines how Quakers in colonial America sought to control both the written and spoken word in their religious communities. It looks at the ways in which American Friends set up committees to censor texts deemed heterodox, as well as the ways Quakers sought to moderate the words of believers through encouraging self-censorship as a way to access personal revelation, while also paying particular attention to the experiences of those who ran afoul of Friends' rules in these regards, either by publishing works without the consent of their meetings or speaking in un-Quakerly fashion. Debates over freedom of speech, the work asserts, defined early modern religious communities just as much as it did more formal legal institutions.
S. Spencer Wells, Ph.D. (2018), The College of William & Mary, is a lecturer in Interdisciplinary Studies at Southern Utah University. His research focuses on church discipline in early America.
Acknowledgements
Abstract
Keywords
Introduction
1 Policing Quaker Speech
2 Policing Quaker Print Ways
3 Disputing the Word
Conclusion
References
Erscheinungsdatum | 27.01.2024 |
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Reihe/Serie | Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Quaker Studies |
Verlagsort | Leiden |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 1 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 90-04-69397-1 / 9004693971 |
ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-69397-5 / 9789004693975 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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