The Sorrows of the Quaker Jesus: James Nayler and the Puritan Crackdown on the Free Spirit

by Leo Damrosch

Book Overview

In October 1656 James Nayler, a prominent Quaker leader - second only to George Fox in the nascent movement - rode into Bristol surrounded by followers singing hosannas in deliberate imitation of Jesus' entry into Jerusalem. In Leo Damrosch's trenchant reading this incident and the extraordinary outrage it ignited shed new light on Cromwell's England and on religious thought and spirituality in a turbulent period.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674821432
• ISBN13: 9780674821439
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"