Let Your Words Be Few: Symbolism and Silence Among Seventeenth-Century Quakers de Bauman, Richard - 1984

Cambridge University Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

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Cambridge:: Cambridge University Press, 1983.. 1st Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: dark aqua binding with gilt spine text; a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket.. 8vo (9.25 inches tall) . References, index. Description: The publisher's blurb reads: ''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 early Quakers speaking and silence were key symbols, providing both a vocabulary for conceptualizing their principles as well as a vehicle for carrying these principles into action. Silence was not… Leer más

Cambridge: CUP, 1984. First Edition . Cloth on Board. Very Good/Very Good. Exploration of 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; book in overall very good condition, clean green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, text bright and unmarked; signs of handling to glossy d/j; pp viii, 168

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