8 “Tokens of Remembrance”: Friends, Memory, and History

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments x
5. List of Abbreviations xii
6. Author’s Note: Dating System of the Religious Society of Friends xiv
7. Introduction: Practical Friends 1
8. Part 1. Seed Time
9. 1 “Inward and Outward Consolation”: Quaker Piety 17
10. 2 “To Cultivate Tender Minds”: Educating Children 40
11. 3 “The Solemn Close”: Rituals of Death 62
12. Part 2. Fruitless Exercise and Distress
13. 4 “A Dividing and Separating Spirit”: The Hicksite Schism 85
14. 5 “Contentions, Divisions, and Subdivisions”: Gurneyites v. Wilburites 107
15. 6 “Practical Righteousness”: Reforming Friends 128
16. Part 3. A Work of Redemption
17. 7 “In the Advancement of Piety”: Quaker Manuscript and Print Culture 155
18. 8 “Tokens of Remembrance”: Friends, Memory, and History 177
19. Conclusion: American Quakerisms 197
20. Notes 205
21. Bibliography 231
22. Index 249