Early Quaker Identity from the Perspective of Some Ecclesiastical Anti-Quakers
This empirical case study provides a new approach to the understanding of discursively constructed Quaker identity in the seventeenth century, from the point of view of those opposed to the dissenting Christian movement. This article asks how others may have viewed adherents to the Quaker communitie...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2022
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| In: |
Journal of religion in Europe
Year: 2022, Volume: 15, Issue: 1/4, Pages: 105-129 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Church of England
/ Quakers
/ Social identity
/ Othering
/ Discourse
/ Corpus (Linguistics)
/ History 1655-1698
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy CH Christianity and Society KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBF British Isles KDE Anglican Church KDH Christian sects |
| Further subjects: | B
early Quakers
B out-group B Priests B perspectivisation B Identity B Othering |
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| Summary: | This empirical case study provides a new approach to the understanding of discursively constructed Quaker identity in the seventeenth century, from the point of view of those opposed to the dissenting Christian movement. This article asks how others may have viewed adherents to the Quaker communities in England. The findings illustrate a range of negative and denigrating discourses that go beyond abstract religious controversy to sow manufactured fear of the Quaker community. Overt and covert linguistic mechanisms used by anti-Quaker writers reveal expressions of emerging moral panic underlying unsubstantiated accusations attacking the minority Quaker community. |
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| ISSN: | 1874-8929 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion in Europe
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18748929-bja10053 |
