Elizabeth Hooten’s Journeys: Quakers and Toleration in Mass Bay

When:
Thursday, Oct 10, 2019 6:00p -
7:30p

Where:
Friends Meeting House
6 Chestnut Street
Boston, MA 02108

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Admission:
FREE

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Lectures & Conferences

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What influences did Quakers have on the Puritans? Come find out during this talk by Adrian Chastain Weimer.


Description


In the 17th-century, reconciling civil order and religious zeal was a daunting task. Quaker interventions, transatlantic pressures and official responses shaped the politics of toleration in Massachusetts Bay. Though frameworks for broad-based religious liberty were beginning to circulate, few people in this era were willing to subordinate their religious beliefs to ideas of human rationality. Religious tolerance in the Puritan world was shaped by official response, transatlantic pressures, and Quaker interventions. How did these religious religious dissenters build a strong and lasting civil order?


Biography


Adrian Chastain Weimer, PhD is associate professor of history at Providence College. Her first book, Martyrs’ Mirror: Persecution and Holiness in Early New England (2011) explores the influence of John Foxe's Book of Martyrs on colonial imaginations. She has recently published articles in New England Quarterly, William and Mary Quarterly, Early American Literature, and Church History, and is currently writing a book on the Restoration in New England.


This event is presented by Partnership of Historic Bostons. PHB, a nonprofit volunteer organization founded in 1999, celebrates the extraordinary legacy of the Puritan founders of Boston and New England, and preserves their unique historical connection to Boston, England. All are welcome to our free Charter Day walking tours, lectures, events, and discussions.


To learn more about the Partnership, please visit http://www.historicbostons.org/.


Image: A Quakers' Meeting by Egbert van Heemskerck. Wikimedia Commons.

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