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A GATHERING OF SPIRITS IBD

QUAKERPRESS OF FGC
05 / 2018
9780999382349
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Sinopsis

This sweeping book tells about the development of Friends GeneraláConference up to 1950, primarily through the lens of the Conferences.One central motif is that these biennial gatherings renewed the courage and resolve of Friends to face the daunting disappointments of the firstáhalf of the 20th century. Modernity promised great advances in humanásociety and no group was more confident of progress than FGC Friendsáat the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.Through the conferences, the melancholy of two world wars, theácapitalist debacle of the Great Depression, and theástubborn blights of American racism were turnedáinto the spleen of renewed hope and activism, asáFriends gathered together to learn, network, and findánew reasons for hope.Gwyn characterizes the firstáfifty years of the conferences as FGC&rsquo,s &ldquo,heroic era.&rdquo,áA Gathering of Spirits will help FGC Friends discover the deeper rootsáof a tradition they continue to this day and to will draw renewed courage

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