Holy Nation: The Transatlantic Quaker Ministry in an Age of Revolution (American Beginnings, 1500-1900)

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Early American Quakers have long been perceived as retiring separatists, but in Holy Nation Sarah Crabtree transforms our historical understanding of the sect by drawing on the sermons, diaries, and correspondence of Quakers themselves. Situating Quakerism within the larger intellectual and non secular undercurrents of the Atlantic World, Crabtree shows how Quakers forged a paradoxical sense of their place on this planet as militant warriors fighting for peace. She argues that all through the turbulent Age of Revolution and Reaction, the Religious Society of Friends forged a “holy nation,” a transnational community of like-minded believers committed at the start to divine law and to each other. Declaring themselves citizens of their own nation served to underscore the decidedly unholy nature of the nation-state, worldly governments, and profane laws. Consequently, campaigns of persecution against the Friends escalated as those in power moved to declare Quakers aliens and traitors to their home countries.

Holy Nation convincingly shows that ideals and actions were inseparable for the Society of Friends, yielding an account of Quakerism that may be concurrently a history of the faith and its adherents and a history of its confrontations with the wider world. In the long run, Crabtree argues, the conflicts experienced between obligations of church and state that Quakers faced can illuminate similar latest struggles.

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