Let Your Words Be Few: Symbolism of Speaking and Silence Among Seventeenth-Century Quakers Julia Barnard ISBN10: 1420948628

ISBN10: 1420948628

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Let Your Words Be Few: Symbolism of Speaking and Silence Among Seventeenth-Century Quakers Julia Barnard ISBN10: 1420948628Amid the spiritual and intellectual turmoil of seventeenth century England, the Quakers emerged and grew into a distinct and enduring religious movement. This book offers a fresh and striking insight into early Quaker history through a study of their distinctive ways of speaking, which, together with their use of silence, served as a specific identifying feature of the movement. Using the combined perspectives of the ethnography of speaking, symbolic