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 the time of...
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[2019]
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Religions
Year: 2019, Volume: 10, Issue: 2, Pages: 1-15 |
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life expectancy
B Religious Society of Friends B Demographics B Fertility B Death B Membership B Birth B Plant populations B Quaker B long eighteenth century B Marriage B Statistics |
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