Stillness: The Political Significations of Silence in Early Quaker Thought and Practice

• In Event: Religious Thought as Power and Resistance

Brief Overview

This paper draws out the political significance of Quaker silence, focusing on the early years of the Society, from its beginnings in the 1640s Midlands of England to the passage of the 1689 Act of Toleration.

Author

• Derek Kennedy, University of Pennsylvania