Quakers and the American Family : British Settlement in the Delaware Valley - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Quakers and the American Family : British Settlement in the Delaware Valley write by Amherst Barry Levy Assistant Professor of History University of Massachusetts. This book was released on 1988-06-30. Quakers and the American Family : British Settlement in the Delaware Valley available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Americans have an unusually strong family ideology. We believe that morally self-sufficient nuclear households must serve as the foundation of a republican society. In this brilliant history, Barry Levy traces this contemporary view of family life all the way back to the Quakers. _____ Levy argues that the Quakers brought a new vision of family and social life to America--one that contrasted sharply with the harsh, formal world of the Puritans in New England. The Quaker emphasis was on affection, friendship and hospitality. They stressed the importance of women in the home, and of self-disciplined, non-coercive childrearing. _____ This book explains how and why the Quakers' had such a profound cultural impact (and why more so in Pennsylvania and America than in England); and what the Quakers' experience with their own radical family system can tell us about American family ideology. ______ Who were the Northwest British Quakers and why did their family system so impress English, French, and New England reformers--Voltaire, Crevecouer, Brissot, Emerson, George Bancroft, Lydia Maria Child, and Lousia May Alcott, to name just a few? To answer this question, Levy tells the story of a large group of Quaker farmers from their development of a new family and communal life in England in the 1650s to their emigration and experience in Pennsylvania between 1681 and 1790. The book is thus simultaneously a trans-Atlantic community study of the migration and transplantation of ordinary British peoples in the tradition of Sumner Chilton Powell's Puritan Village; the story of the formation and development of a major Anglo-American faith; and an exploration of the origins of American family ideology.
The Quakers in America
The Quakers in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Quakers in America write by Thomas D. Hamm. This book was released on 2003-12-03. The Quakers in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Quakers in America is a multifaceted history of the Religious Society of Friends and a fascinating study of its culture and controversies today. Lively vignettes of Conservative, Evangelical, Friends General Conference, and Friends United meetings illuminate basic Quaker theology and reflect the group's diversity while also highlighting the fundamental unity within the religion. Quaker culture encompasses a rich tradition of practice even as believers continue to debate whether Quakerism is necessarily Christian, where religious authority should reside, how one transmits faith to children, and how gender and sexuality shape religious belief and behavior. Praised for its rich insight and wide-ranging perspective, The Quakers in America is a penetrating account of an influential, vibrant, and often misunderstood religious sect. Known best for their long-standing commitment to social activism, pacifism, fair treatment for Native Americans, and equality for women, the Quakers have influenced American thought and society far out of proportion to their relatively small numbers. Whether in the foreign policy arena (the American Friends Service Committee), in education (the Friends schools), or in the arts (prominent Quakers profiled in this book include James Turrell, Bonnie Raitt, and James Michener), Quakers have left a lasting imprint on American life. This multifaceted book is a concise history of the Religious Society of Friends; an introduction to its beliefs and practices; and a vivid picture of the culture and controversies of the Friends today. The book opens with lively vignettes of Conservative, Evangelical, Friends General Conference, and Friends United meetings that illuminate basic Quaker concepts and theology and reflect the group's diversity in the wake of the sectarian splintering of the nineteenth century. Yet the book also examines commonalities among American Friends that demonstrate a fundamental unity within the religion: their commitments to worship, the ministry of all believers, decision making based on seeking spiritual consensus rather than voting, a simple lifestyle, and education. Thomas Hamm shows that Quaker culture encompasses a rich tradition of practice even as believers continue to debate a number of central questions: Is Quakerism necessarily Christian? Where should religious authority reside? Is the self sacred? How does one transmit faith to children? How do gender and sexuality shape religious belief and behavior? Hamm's analysis of these debates reveals a vital religion that prizes both unity and diversity.
The Quaker Family in Colonial America
The Quaker Family in Colonial America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Quaker Family in Colonial America write by Jerry William Frost. This book was released on 1974-11. The Quaker Family in Colonial America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Relates the religious and educational practices of the Quakers to their unique attitudes concerning family life and child rearing
Quakers and the American Family
Quakers and the American Family - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Quakers and the American Family write by Barry Levy. This book was released on 1988. Quakers and the American Family available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explains why the Quakers had a greater influence in America than in England, and tells the story of a group of Quaker immigrants
The Transformation of American Quakerism
The Transformation of American Quakerism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Transformation of American Quakerism write by Thomas D. Hamm. This book was released on 1988. The Transformation of American Quakerism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Hamm has simply produced the best book on Quaker history in recent years." -- Quaker History ..". will stand as one of the most important works in the field." -- American Historical Review
