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How the Quakers invented America
- Title
- How the Quakers invented America / David Yount.
- Author
- Yount, David.
- Publication
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers : [Distributed by National Book Network], c2007.
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- Description
- xxiv, 159 p.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- Distributor from jacket.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-150) and index.
- Contents
- A tale of two Quakers -- Preface -- Introduction : "Convincement" -- How the Quakers invented America -- Faith versus feeling -- The meaning of the Light -- The significance of Jesus -- How Quakers approach the Bible -- The good Quaker -- The holy experiment -- Living in the light of eternity -- Why did the Quakers stop quaking? -- A peculiar people -- What Jesus learned in the desert and Thoreau learned in the woods -- To see the world in a grain of sand -- Conclusion : How the Quakers are reinventing America.
- Call Number
- JFD 09-2348
- ISBN
- 9780742558335 (alk. paper)
- 0742558339 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007006135
- OCLC
- 84838316
- Author
- Yount, David.
- Title
- How the Quakers invented America / David Yount.
- Imprint
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers : [Distributed by National Book Network], c2007.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-150) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFD 09-2348