Providence, punishment and identity formation in the late-Stuart Quaker community, c.1650–1700

Pullin, Naomi

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“…As Naomi Pullin has shown, Quakers' interpretations of providential intervention 'had a distinctive character' as they cast themselves as particularly deserving of God's protection and interpreted recovery from sickness as evidence of God's benevolence to his chosen people. 88 In another letter, Eliot informed his wife that he was well thanks to this 'Divine Protection', telling her: 'we have not suffer'd at all in our Healths, so far as appears, thro' the fervour of Providence'. 89 The Baptist Stutterd brothers from the north of England shared an understanding of providence as similarly benevolent.…”

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Prayer for Family and Friends: The Body and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Harvey,

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2024

Hist. J.

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This article explores how writers, predominantly adhering to a variety of different Christian denominations but also including Jewish writers, discussed religion and the body in letters throughout the long eighteenth century. It draws on a corpus of over 2,500 familiar letters written by men and women of different denominations between 1675 and 1820. That these letters were not chosen because of their religious content makes them a good ‘test’ of the role of faith in everyday understandings of the body. This article underscores the continued centrality of religious discourse and devotional practice in eighteenth-century everyday life. Our research finds that religion was a commonplace register deployed when discussing bodily matters throughout the long eighteenth century. Significantly, this was the case for individuals who otherwise made scant reference to their faith. Discussion of the physical body encouraged recourse to providence, a public discussion of doctrine, and the shared expression of devotion. The ongoing force of religion in people’s lives was thus intimately tied to their embodied experiences. Letters not only expressed but actively maintained this widely shared religious framework for understanding the body.

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Prayer for Family and Friends: The Body and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Harvey,

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2024

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Female Friends and the Making of Transatlantic Quakerism, 1650–1750

Pullin

2018

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10 William C. Braithwaite was able to uncover one dubious reference to 'Society of Friends', dating from 1665, but he argues that this was used in a 'descriptive' rather than a 'customary' sense. William C. Braithwaite, The Beginnings of Quakerism (2nd edn, rev. H. J. Cadbury, Cambridge, 1961), pp. 307-308.The Temporary Subject Catalogue at the LRSF notes that the fi rst offi cial use of the term 'Religious Society of Friends' is thought to be in the 1793 address to George III. It was in common usage by 1800 when Joseph Bevan Gurney published A Refutation of Some of the More Modern Misrepresentations of the Society of Friends, Commonly Called Quakers .

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Contextualizing theCruel Sufferings (For the Truths Sake) of Katharine Evans and Sarah Cheevers: A Historical Materialist Perspective

Palmer

2017

ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews

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Providence, punishment and identity formation in the late-Stuart Quaker community, c.1650–1700

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Cited by 4 publications

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Prayer for Family and Friends: The Body and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Prayer for Family and Friends: The Body and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Female Friends and the Making of Transatlantic Quakerism, 1650–1750

Contextualizing theCruel Sufferings (For the Truths Sake) of Katharine Evans and Sarah Cheevers: A Historical Materialist Perspective

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