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How the Quakers Invented America

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ISBN-10: 0742558339

ISBN-13: 9780742558335

Edition: 2007

Authors: David Yount

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Nationally syndicated columnist David Yount shows how Quakers and the Society of Friends shaped the basic distinctive features of American life, from the days of the colonies, revolution and founders, to the civil rights movements of modern times freedom, equality, community, straightforwardness, and spirituality.
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Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/28/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Introduction : "convincement"
How the Quakers invented America
Faith versus feeling
The meaning of the light
The significance of Jesus
How the Quakers approach the Bible
The good Quaker
The holy experiment
Living in the light of eternity
Why did the Quakers stop quaking?
A peculiar people
What Jesus learned in the desert and Thoreau learned in the woods
To see the world in a grain of sand
Conclusion : how the Quakers are reinventing America