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Let Your Words Be Few - Symbolism of Speaking and Silence Among Seventeenth-Century Quakers (Paperback) Loot Price: R378
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Let Your Words Be Few - Symbolism of Speaking and Silence Among Seventeenth-Century Quakers (Paperback): Richard Bauman

Let Your Words Be Few - Symbolism of Speaking and Silence Among Seventeenth-Century Quakers (Paperback)

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 carrying these principles into action. Silence was not merely an abstention from speaking or an empty interval between utterances, but an act as richly textured and multidimensional in its meanings as speaking. Both unified thought and action. Professor Bauman discusses many instances of the operation of speaking and silence, including, among other central elements of early Quaker belief and practice, the contexts and settings of Quaker religious communication, the patterns and functions of Quaker "plain language," and the Quaker testimony against the swearing of oaths. In particular, he examines the role of the minister, both as a dynamic speaker who played out the tension between speaking and silence, and as a link between the outside world and the Quaker inner community. He also uses the role of the minister to trace the changes in speaking, and, correspondingly, the direction of the Quaker movement, during the seventeenth century.

This book is unique in that it comprehends both the cultural and social aspects of Quaker history by explicating their construction of meaning through their use of language. Its unified approach will make it of interest to sociolinguists, social historians, symbolic anthropologists, and sociologists of religion.

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Imprint: Wheatmark Inc
Country of origin: United States
Release date: November 2008
First published: November 2008
Authors: Richard Bauman
Dimensions: 231 x 155 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 978-1-60494-185-2
Categories: Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches > Quakers (Religious Society of Friends)
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches > Quakers (Religious Society of Friends)
Books > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches > Quakers (Religious Society of Friends)
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LSN: 1-60494-185-5
Barcode: 9781604941852

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