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Holy Nation (Hardcover)
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Holy Nation (Hardcover)
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Early American Quakers have long been perceived as retiring
separatists, but in Holy Nation Sarah Crabtree transforms our
historical understanding of the sect by drawing on the sermons,
diaries, and correspondence of Quakers themselves. Situating
Quakerism within the larger intellectual and religious
undercurrents of the Atlantic World, Crabtree shows how Quakers
forged a paradoxical sense of their place in the world as militant
warriors fighting for peace. She argues that during the turbulent
Age of Revolution and Reaction, the Religious Society of Friends
forged a "holy nation," a transnational community of like-minded
believers committed first and foremost to divine law and to one
another. Declaring themselves citizens of their own nation served
to underscore the decidedly unholy nature of the nation-state,
worldly governments, and profane laws. As a result, campaigns of
persecution against the Friends escalated as those in power moved
to declare Quakers aliens and traitors to their home countries.
Holy Nation convincingly shows that ideals and actions were
inseparable for the Society of Friends, yielding an account of
Quakerism that is simultaneously a history of the faith and its
adherents and a history of its confrontations with the wider world.
Ultimately, Crabtree argues, the conflicts experienced between
obligations of church and state that Quakers faced can illuminate
similar contemporary struggles.
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