TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wells,S.Spencer
TI  - As the Oracles of God"": Policing the Word in Colonial Quakerism 
T2  - Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences
SN  - 9789004693982
AV  - BX7631.2 
U1  - 289.6 23
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Society of Friends
KW  - History. 
KW  - Influence. 
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Front Matter -- Preliminary Material; S. Spencer Wells -- Copyright Page; S. Spencer Wells -- Acknowledgments; S. Spencer Wells -- “As the Oracles of God”: Policing the Word in Colonial Quakerism; S. Spencer Wells
N2  - As the Oracles of God examines how Quakers in colonial America sought to control both the written and spoken word in their religious communities. It looks at the ways in which American Friends set up committees to censor texts deemed heterodox, as well as the ways Quakers sought to moderate the words of believers through encouraging self-censorship as a way to access personal revelation, while also paying particular attention to the experiences of those who ran afoul of Friends' rules in these regards, either by publishing works without the consent of their meetings or speaking in un-Quakerly fashion. Debates over freedom of speech, the work asserts, defined early modern religious communities just as much as it did more formal legal institutions
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004693982
ER  -