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New Perspectives On Eighteenth-Century British Quaker Women, Edwina Newman, Judith Jennings
New Perspectives On Eighteenth-Century British Quaker Women, Edwina Newman, Judith Jennings
Quaker Studies
In the last three decades, research on eighteenth-century British Quaker women reflects a range of different methodological perspectives. Recent studies focus on female spiritual development and sense of identity in the formative seventeenth century. New influences and changing contexts in the eighteenth century, especially Quietism, engendered new themes: a continuing concern with self and collective identity; theology and practices; and participation in the public and private spheres. The experiences and perceptions ofBritish Quaker women in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries reflect the influence of Deism and Evangelicalism. Despite these valuable studies, further research and systematic analysis is needed, …
Interrogating The Experience Of Quaker Scholars In Hindy And Sikh Studies: Spiritual Journeying And Academic Engagement, Eleanor Nesbitt
Interrogating The Experience Of Quaker Scholars In Hindy And Sikh Studies: Spiritual Journeying And Academic Engagement, Eleanor Nesbitt
Quaker Studies
This article reports a recent investigation of the relationship between the spiritual and academic journeys of seven scholars whose fields involve the study of aspects of Sikh and/ or Hindu faith. Several frameworks for the study are suggested, including Quaker encounter with Indic religions; the changing nature of social diversity; and the insider/ outsider discussion in religious studies. Discussion of their experience highlights the participants' faith background and promptings to attend a Quaker Meeting for Worship as well as the initial impetus to their academic specialism, their guiding values and their self-identification. Multiple connections between the two 'journeys' emerge-not least …
Editorial (Quaker Studies Volume 14, Issue 2), Pink Dandelion
Editorial (Quaker Studies Volume 14, Issue 2), Pink Dandelion
Quaker Studies
No abstract provided.
Searl's "The Meanings Of Silence In Quaker Worship" - Book Review, Peter J. Collins
Searl's "The Meanings Of Silence In Quaker Worship" - Book Review, Peter J. Collins
Quaker Studies
No abstract provided.
Dennehy's "Restoration Ireland: Always Settling And Never Settled" - Book Review, Betty Hagglund
Dennehy's "Restoration Ireland: Always Settling And Never Settled" - Book Review, Betty Hagglund
Quaker Studies
No abstract provided.
Day's "Religion And The Individual: Belief, Practice, Identity" - Book Review, Betty Hagglund
Day's "Religion And The Individual: Belief, Practice, Identity" - Book Review, Betty Hagglund
Quaker Studies
No abstract provided.
Dandelion's "An Introduction To Quakerism" - Book Review, Martyn Bennett
Dandelion's "An Introduction To Quakerism" - Book Review, Martyn Bennett
Quaker Studies
No abstract provided.
Butler's "The Quaker Meeting Houses Of Ireland" - Book Review, Peter J. Collins
Butler's "The Quaker Meeting Houses Of Ireland" - Book Review, Peter J. Collins
Quaker Studies
No abstract provided.
Besse's "Sufferings Of Early Quakers (York: Sessions Book Trust). East Anglia And East Midlands" - Book Review, Betty Hagglund
Besse's "Sufferings Of Early Quakers (York: Sessions Book Trust). East Anglia And East Midlands" - Book Review, Betty Hagglund
Quaker Studies
No abstract provided.
Allen's "Quaker Communities In Early Modern Wales: From Resistance To Respectability" - Book Review, Christine Trevett
Allen's "Quaker Communities In Early Modern Wales: From Resistance To Respectability" - Book Review, Christine Trevett
Quaker Studies
No abstract provided.
Comparing Two Surveys Of Britain Yearly Meeting: 1990 And 2003, Mark S. Cary, Pink Dandelion, Rosie Rutherford
Comparing Two Surveys Of Britain Yearly Meeting: 1990 And 2003, Mark S. Cary, Pink Dandelion, Rosie Rutherford
Quaker Studies
Comparison of postal surveys of Friends in Britain Yearly Meeting in 1990 and 2003 showed modest differences for reported self-descriptions and beliefs. Quakers in 2003 appear to be less pacifist, somewhat less likely to describe God as 'Spirit', 'Inward Light', or 'Love' in absolute percentages, and less likely to describe Jesus as 'containing that of God within as we all do'. Meeting for Worship was described less as 'Seeking God's will', and more as 'Listening'. The largest changes were an increase in reported levels of education and a 13-year increase in median age across the 13-year period. The change in …
Quagans: Fusing Quakerism With Contemporary Paganism, Giselle Vincett
Quagans: Fusing Quakerism With Contemporary Paganism, Giselle Vincett
Quaker Studies
Quaker Pagans are a relatively new phenomenon. Since no detailed description of the spirituality of Quaker Pagans has yet been done, to make a modest beginning this paper situates Quaker Pagans within the contexts of British Quakerism and contemporary paganism. It extends Pink Dandelion's concept of a 'behavioural creed' (1996) by arguing that Quaker Pagans have a 'practical belief system and a performative theology, and outlines how Quaker Pagans hold together their dual religious identity. Building upon Peter Collins' (2008) work on Quaker narratives, the paper looks particularly at the way in which Quaker Pagans utilise story and metaphor. Finally, …
The Problem Of Quaker Identity, Peter J. Collins
The Problem Of Quaker Identity, Peter J. Collins
Quaker Studies
The paper constitutes a summary of my attempts, during the past 15 years, to understand contemporary Quakers and Quakerism. The issue on which I focus is the difficulty in representing Quaker identity given the heterogeneity of Quaker belief. During the last decade I have found three approaches useful in analysing this problem. In the first place, I found that Quaker identity is revealed through their talk in and around Meeting. Although each individual friend has a unique biographical trajectory, this talk tends to be both storied and thematic. Furthermore, such narrative discourse is coloured by one particularly pervasive character of …
'There's Death In The Pot!' The British Free Produce Movement And The Religious Society Of Friends, With Particular Reference To The North-East Of England, Elizabeth A. O'Donnell
'There's Death In The Pot!' The British Free Produce Movement And The Religious Society Of Friends, With Particular Reference To The North-East Of England, Elizabeth A. O'Donnell
Quaker Studies
No abstract provided.
'Chipping At The Landmarks Of Our Fathers': The Decline Of The Testimony Against Hireling Ministry In The Nineteenth Century, Thomas D. Hamm
'Chipping At The Landmarks Of Our Fathers': The Decline Of The Testimony Against Hireling Ministry In The Nineteenth Century, Thomas D. Hamm
Quaker Studies
One of the distinctive features of Quakerism from the 1650s until the 1870s was its stance against any kind of pay for ministers, what Friends referred to as 'hireling ministry'. Friends viewed a paid, authoritative pastoral ministry as contrary to Scripture, as tending toward preaching that pleased humans rather than God, as limiting the leadings of the Holy Spirit, and as generally corrupting. One of the criticisms of Orthodox by Hicksite Friends in the 1 820s was that the Orthodox were compromising this testimony by associating with clergy of other denominations in reform and humanitarian causes, and both Orthodox and …
Editorial (Quaker Studies Volume 13, Issue 2), Pink Dandelion
Editorial (Quaker Studies Volume 13, Issue 2), Pink Dandelion
Quaker Studies
No abstract provided.
Gurney's "Brave Community: The Digger Movement In The English Revolution" And Smith's "Martha Simmon[D]S 1624-1665: Her Life And Quaker Writings And 'The Fall' Of James Nayler" -Book Reviews, Maureen Bell
Quaker Studies
No abstract provided.
Virtuous Friends: Morality And Quaker Identity, Jackie Leach Scully
Virtuous Friends: Morality And Quaker Identity, Jackie Leach Scully
Quaker Studies
Recent work in moral philosophy and psychology has made deep connections between questions of morality and identity, suggesting that orientation to a moral framework, through community practices and discourses, contributes to the individual sense of self. I argue that contemporary Liberal Quakers in Britain thus use their moral judgments among other things to reinforce their social identity as Quakers, emphasising a shared approach to ethical framework and sources of authority over the substantive content of the judgments. The favoured ethical framework of Liberal British Quakers appears to be a form of virtue ethics, and I explore the possibility that links …
Fellowship, Service, And The 'Spirit Of Adventure': The Religious Society Of Friends And The Outdoors Movement In Britain, C. 1900-1950, Mark Freeman
Quaker Studies
This article considers the involvement of members of the Religious Society of Friends in various manifestations of the outdoors movement in early twentieth-century Britain. It examines the Edwardian 'Quaker tramps' and their role in the 'Quaker renaissance', and goes on to consider the influence of Friends in organisations such as the Holiday Fellowship and the Youth Hostels Association, as well as interwar Quaker mountaineers. It argues that, while the outdoor activities of the Quaker renaissance were essentially internal to the Religious Society of Friends, a wider conception of social service took Quakers beyond the boundaries of the Society in the …
Staging Quakerism In American Theatre And Film, James Emmett Ryan
Staging Quakerism In American Theatre And Film, James Emmett Ryan
Quaker Studies
Arguing that Quakers have been used as influential stock characters in American performance culture, this essay profiles several examples of Quakers as represented in American theater and film: John Murdock's play The Triumphs of Love (1795), Harry F. Millarde's lost silent film The Quack Quakers (1916), and the Academy Award winning film High Noon (1952). Paradoxically, in each of these productions, which range from farce to serious drama, Friends are shown as either claiming or as striving for unattainable moral and religious human ideals, but also as an exemplary community of individuals against which other Americans might and should be …
Accusations Of Blasphemy In English Anti-Quaker Polemic, C. 1660-1701, David Manning
Accusations Of Blasphemy In English Anti-Quaker Polemic, C. 1660-1701, David Manning
Quaker Studies
This paper investigates the conviction amongst zealous English Protestants, living between 1660 and 1701, that Quakerism constituted a form of blasphemy. Through an analysis of the accusation of blasphemy in anti-Quaker polemic it develops a cultural history of blasphemy as representation, illuminating a spiritual critique of Quakerism as enthusiastic antitrinitarianism and a sense of blasphemy commensurate with Thomistic theology. In so doing, this paper provides an insight into the contemporary theological anxiety that Quakerism was fundamentally wicked and anti-Christian.
Ten Years Of Birmingham: An Extended Editorial, Pink Dandelion
Ten Years Of Birmingham: An Extended Editorial, Pink Dandelion
Quaker Studies
No abstract provided.
Besse's "Sufferings Of Early Quakers: Southwest England, 1654 To 1690" - Book Review, Betty Hagglund
Besse's "Sufferings Of Early Quakers: Southwest England, 1654 To 1690" - Book Review, Betty Hagglund
Quaker Studies
No abstract provided.
Heelas, Woodhead, Seel, Szerszynski, & Tusting's "The Spiritual Revolution" - Book Review, Gay Pilgrim
Heelas, Woodhead, Seel, Szerszynski, & Tusting's "The Spiritual Revolution" - Book Review, Gay Pilgrim
Quaker Studies
No abstract provided.
Sox's "Quaker Plant Hunters" - Book Review, Geoffrey Morries
Sox's "Quaker Plant Hunters" - Book Review, Geoffrey Morries
Quaker Studies
No abstract provided.
Gillett's "Abolishing War: One Man's Attempt" - Book Review, Brian Phillips
Gillett's "Abolishing War: One Man's Attempt" - Book Review, Brian Phillips
Quaker Studies
No abstract provided.
Moore's "The History Of The Life Of Thomas Ellwood Written By Himself" - Book Review, Stephen W. Angell
Moore's "The History Of The Life Of Thomas Ellwood Written By Himself" - Book Review, Stephen W. Angell
Quaker Studies
No abstract provided.
Gill's "Women In The Seventeenth-Century Quaker Community: A Literary Study Of Political Identities, 1650-1700" - Book Review, Betty Hagglund
Gill's "Women In The Seventeenth-Century Quaker Community: A Literary Study Of Political Identities, 1650-1700" - Book Review, Betty Hagglund
Quaker Studies
No abstract provided.
Booy's "Personal Disclosures: An Anthology Of Self-Writing From The Seventeenth Century" And Booy's "Autobiographical Writings By Early Quaker Women" - Book Review, Pam Lunn
Quaker Studies
No abstract provided.
The Aesthetics Of Friends' Meeting Houses, Roger Homan
The Aesthetics Of Friends' Meeting Houses, Roger Homan
Quaker Studies
In an attempt to identify a Quaker aesthetic as it applies to English meeting houses, this article draws upon the physical evidence of English Meetings past and present, upon the records of discussions preceding the design and construction of meeting houses, upon interviews with Friends at some thirty meeting houses and upon the observational and interpretative literature. The main part of the discussion is structured around the moral principles of plainness, worthiness and simplicity. A distinction is made between the effect of plainness, which has in the past been regulated, and simplicity, which is here explored as a moral attribute …