The Quakers In The American Colonies - Couverture souple

Jones, Rufus M

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1410212556 ISBN 13 : 9781410212559

Editeur : University Press of the Pacific, 2004

Synopsis

This book is an attempt to study historically and critically the religious movement inaugurated in the New World by the Quakers, an important movement both for the history of the development of religion and for the history of the American Colonies, and to present it not only in its external setting but also in the light of its inner meeting. At the time of original publication in 1911, Rufus M. Jones, M.A., D.Litt., was Professor of Philosophy at Haverford College; Isaac Sharpless, D.Sc., was President of Haverford College; and Amelia M. Gummere, was author of The Quaker - A Study in Costume.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The story of the Quaker invasion of the Colonies in the New World has often been told in fragmentary fashion, but no adequate study of the entire Quaker movement in colonial times has yet been made from original sources, free from partisan or sectarian prejudice and in historical perspective. By far the most important history of American Quakerism covering our period is Bowden s History of Friends in America (L ondon, vol. i. 1850, vol. ii. 1854), but it is plainly written from the Quaker point of view and does not furnish a critical investigation of Quakerism and its work in the New World. Thomas s History of the Society of Friends in America (written originally for the American Church History Series, and published separately in 1895) is an excellent piece of work, done in an impartial and historical spirit, though too brief to allow of much detail. Weeks s Southern Quakers and Slavery (B altimore, 1896) is scholarly and judicial, and is the best work in existence for the section covered. There have been many accounts written from the anti-Q uaker point of view, but they are for the most part one-sided and coloured by prejudice, and they are obviously lacking in penetration into the inner meaning of the type of religion which they undertake to present. Bancroft has given considerable space to the Quakers in his History of the United States. His account is sympathetic, but it is largely an abstract treatment of their religious principles rather than a truly historical picture.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of the Pacific
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1410212556
• ISBN 13: 9781410212559
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 640
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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