Faith in Numbers—Re-quantifying the English Quaker Population during the Long Eighteenth Century
The Religious Society of Friends was traditionally disinclined to define “membership„ in pursuit of the Quaker mission to create a worldwide church. As a result, for almost two centuries before the first census of 1847, there are no records of the numbers within the Society. By t...
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MDPI AG
2019-01-01
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/10/2/83 |