Let Your Words Be Few Symbolism of Speaking and Silence among Seventeenth-Century Quakers

Name: Let Your Words Be Few Symbolism of Speaking and Silence among Seventeenth-Century Quakers
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ISBN: 9781604941852

ISBN-10: 1604941855

ISBN-13: 9781604941852

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Authors: Richard Bauman

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Amid the spiritual and intellectual turmoil of seventeenth-century England, the Quakers emerged and grew into a distinct and enduring religious movement. This book offers a fresh and striking insight into early Quaker history through a study of their distinctive ways of speaking, which, together with their use of silence, served as a specific identifying feature of the movement. Using the combined perspectives of the ethnography of speaking, symbolic anthropology, and the historical sociology of religion, Richard Bauman shows that for the very early Quakers speaking and silence were key symbols, providing both a vocabulary for conceptualizing their principles as well as a vehicle for…

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List price: $15.95
Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc.
Binding: Paperback
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English