The Problem of Quaker Identity
The paper constitutes a summary of my attempts, during the past 15 years, to understand contemporary Quakers and Quakerism. The issue on which I focus is the difficulty in representing Quaker identity given the heterogeneity of Quaker belief. During the last decade I have found three approaches usef...
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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
| Язык: | Английский |
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2009
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Quaker studies
Год: 2009, Том: 13, Выпуск: 2, Страницы: 205-219 |
| Другие ключевые слова: | B
Quakerism
B Narrative B Identity B plaining |
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| Итог: | The paper constitutes a summary of my attempts, during the past 15 years, to understand contemporary Quakers and Quakerism. The issue on which I focus is the difficulty in representing Quaker identity given the heterogeneity of Quaker belief. During the last decade I have found three approaches useful in analysing this problem. In the first place, I found that Quaker identity is revealed through their talk in and around Meeting. Although each individual friend has a unique biographical trajectory, this talk tends to be both storied and thematic. Furthermore, such narrative discourse is coloured by one particularly pervasive character of canonic Quakerism: the plain. Quakers have always preferred the plain to the embellished or ornamented—both in their theology, their speech and in their material culture. I extend my earlier work on plaining here by reference to the work of Webb Keane and Bruno Latour. Third, and finally, I describe how the work of Pierre Bourdieu and especially his work on habitus and practice theory has contributed to the way in which I understand the enduring character of the Quaker Meeting. |
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| ISSN: | 2397-1770 |
| Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: Quaker studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3828/quaker.13.2.205 |
