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xiii, 465 pages ; 24 cm, \"This study of radical prophecy in seventeenth-century England explores the significance of gender in the thinking and behaviour of hundreds of religious visionaries between 1650 and 1700. The centrepiece of the work is a study of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, by far the largest and most successful of teh radical sectarian groups active during the period of the English civil war and the inter-regnum.\"--Jacket, Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-454) and index, Feminine symbolism and female prophecy : gender and knowledge in the world turned upside down -- Woman, nature, and spirit -- Male and female power : visionary women and the social order -- Talking back : women as prophets during the Civil War and Interregnum, 1640-1664 -- Friends in Eden : gender and spirituality in Early Quakerism, 1650-1664 -- Ecstasy and self-transcendence -- Prophecy -- Ecstasy and everyday life -- How were Quakers radical? -- Visionary orders : women in the Quaker Movement, 1664-1700 -- The snake in the garden : Quaker politics and the origin of the women's meeting -- The mystical housewife -- Selfhood and Enlightenment : Quaker preaching and discipline, 1664

Author

Mack, Phyllis

Publisher

Berkeley : University of California Press

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780585079028

Subjects

History, Christian, Religion