The Quakers, 1656–1723 : : The Evolution of an Alternative Community / / Rosemary Moore, Richard C. Allen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Allen, Richard C.,; Moore, Rosemary,
• MitwirkendeR: Allen, Richard C.,; Bell, Erin,; Brown, Raymond,; Frost, J. William,; Healey, Robynne Rogers,; Lapsansky-Werner, Emma,; Moore, Rosemary,; Sell, Alan P. F.,; Southcombe, George,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: The New History of Quakerism ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.)

This landmark volume is the first in a century to examine the “Second Period” of Quakerism, a time when the Religious Society of Friends experienced upheavals in theology, authority and institutional structures, and political trajectories as a result of the persecution Quakers faced in the first dec...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Ac knowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1. The Early Development of Quakerism
• 2. Quakerism Beyond England to 1666
• 3. Gospel Order: The Development of Quaker Organization
• 4. Living as a Quaker During the Second Period
• 5. Beyond Britain: The Quakers in the European Continent and the Americas, 1666–1682
• 6. Quakers and Dissenters in Dispute
• 7. Quaker Expressions of Belief in the Lifetime of George Fox
• 8. The Quakers and Politics, 1660–1689
• 9. Adjusting to New Conditions in Britain and America, 1690–1700
• 10. Quaker Life and Communities at the Turn of the Century
• 11. The Friends and Business in the Second Period
• 12. The Quakers and the Law
• 13. Into the Eighteenth Century
• Appendix: Timeline
• Selected Bibliography
• List of Contributors
• Index