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By Sarah Crabtree

Early American Quakers have lengthy been perceived as retiring separatists, yet in Holy Nation Sarah Crabtree transforms our ancient knowing of the sect by means of drawing at the sermons, diaries, and correspondence of Quakers themselves. Situating Quakerism in the better highbrow and spiritual undercurrents of the Atlantic international, Crabtree indicates how Quakers solid a paradoxical experience in their position on this planet as militant warriors battling for peace. She argues that in the turbulent Age of Revolution and response, the spiritual Society of neighbors cast a “holy nation,” a transnational neighborhood of like-minded believers devoted at the start to divine legislations and to each other. mentioning themselves electorate in their personal country served to underscore the decidedly unholy nature of the countryside, worldly governments, and profane legislation. consequently, campaigns of persecution opposed to the buddies escalated as these in energy moved to claim Quakers extraterrestrial beings and traitors to their domestic countries.

Holy Nation convincingly indicates that beliefs and activities have been inseparable for the Society of pals, yielding an account of Quakerism that's at the same time a historical past of the religion and its adherents and a background of its confrontations with the broader international. eventually, Crabtree argues, the conflicts skilled among tasks of church and kingdom that Quakers confronted can remove darkness from related modern struggles.

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