"In the world but not of it": Quaker faith and the dominant culture, Middletown Meeting, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1750-1850

 
 
 
 

"In the world but not of it": Quaker faith and the dominant culture, Middletown Meeting, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1750-1850

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dc.contributor.advisor Ubbelohde, Carl en_US
dc.contributor.author Grundy, Martha Paxson en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2008-07-10T14:25:14Z
dc.date.available 2008-07-10T14:25:14Z
dc.date.created 1990 en_US
dc.date.issued 2008-07-10T14:25:14Z
dc.identifier.uri http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1058985472 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2374.OX/16357
dc.description This study of seventeen surname Quaker families from Middletown Monthly Meeting in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, attempts to describe and analyze the choices they made between the requirements of their faith and the demands and opportunities of the dominant culture. This necessitated first the reconstruction of all seventeen of the Meeting's families that stayed in the Meeting from 1750 to 1850. The concept of levels of faith development has been used to help understand behavior in specific circumstances as well as the dynamics of larger movements. Among individuals of the Data Set families it was found, as expected, that there were varying degrees of commitment to the God-centered life from which certain behaviors were expected to flow. They seemed to come closer to approximating the ideal of being "in the world but not of it" – participating in the larger society without adopting its standards or values – at times of sharp crisis than during times of prosperity when it was easy to slide into acceptance of aspects of the dominant culture. It was also found that the family was important, that patterns of active involvement in ongoing business of the Meeting, of active working on the interior, spiritual life, of outward upholding of testimonies tended to run in families. Negative patterns like drinking, fornication, and inactivity in meetings for business were also clustered in some families but not in others. It was found that the "alienation" model used by some scholars to predict which Friends would join the Hicksite branch and which the Orthodox branch at the Separation in 1827, did not explain the experience of Middletown Friends. A significant proportion of Hicksite Friends in Middletown were increasingly involved in the economic aspects of the acquisitive society while eschewing the reform programs and theology of the Orthodox en_US
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dc.format 343p. en_US
dc.rights unrestricted en_US
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dc.subject Quaker faith en_US
dc.subject Dominant culture en_US
dc.title "In the world but not of it": Quaker faith and the dominant culture, Middletown Meeting, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1750-1850 en_US
dc.type Electronic Thesis or Dissertation en_US
dc.degree.name PhD en_US
dc.degree.level doctoral en_US
dc.degree.discipline History en_US
dc.degree.grantor Case Western Reserve University en_US
dc.contributor.publisher Case Western Reserve University / OhioLINK en_US

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