THE SUB-TEXTUAL RELIGION: QUAKERS, THE BOOK, AND PUBLIC EDUCATION IN PHILADELPHIA, 1682-1800. (VOLUMES I AND II) (PENNSYLVANIA).
Description:... The history of Quaker ambivalence towards things intellectual, as it transpassed in Philadelphia, impinges upon an understanding of the vital connection Quakers provided between key features of medievality and modernity, the communal church of love and the public school classroom. The inner intellectual and spiritual life of Friends, with its inherent interplay between community, spirituality, enlightenment, and politics, offers historians a vehicle through which to analyze the complex relations between
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