Comparing Two Surveys Of Britain Yearly Meeting: 1990 And 2003,
2015
Wallingford, PA, USA
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,
2015
University of Edinburgh, Scotland
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,
2015
University of Durham, England
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,
2015
[email protected]
'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.
'Choose Life!' Quaker Metaphor And Modernity,
2015
George Fox University
'Choose Life!' Quaker Metaphor And Modernity, Pink Dandelion, Betty Hagglund, Pam Lunn, Edwina Newman
Quaker Studies
In 2003, Grace Jantzen presented the George Richardson Lecture, the annual international lecture in Quaker studies, entitled 'Choose Life! Early Quaker Women and Violence in Modernity', which was published in Quaker Studies. It was part of her ongoing work on the preoccupation of modernity with death and violence. In the lecture she argued that Margaret Fell and most other early Quaker women encouraged a choice of life over a preoccupation with death, while most male Friends (as Quakers are also called) maintained the violent imagery of the Lamb's War, the spiritual warfare that would usher in the kingdom. While both …
'Chipping At The Landmarks Of Our Fathers': The Decline Of The Testimony Against Hireling Ministry In The Nineteenth Century,
2015
Earlham College, Richmond, USA
'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),
2015
George Fox University
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,
2015
University of Birmingham
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,
2015
Newcastle University, England
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 …
Modern Testimonies: The Approach Of Quakers To Substance Use And Gambling,
2015
Quaker Action on Alcohol and Drugs
Modern Testimonies: The Approach Of Quakers To Substance Use And Gambling, Helena Chambers
Quaker Studies
This article outlines a study into Quaker attitudes and behaviours in relation to the testimony of abstinence and moderation and that regarding gambling and speculation. The background to the Quaker testimonies is summarised, and relevant research in the substances/ gambling fields about denominational influences on personal behaviours is briefly outlined. The questions raised by recent Quaker scholarship represented are considered, and the study results are outlined in relation to the theory of Quaker double-culture (Dandelion 1996; Dandelion and Collins 2008) and the suggestions of Scully regarding virtue ethics among Quakers (2002, 2008). It is suggested that whereas the liberal belief …
Fellowship, Service, And The 'Spirit Of Adventure': The Religious Society Of Friends And The Outdoors Movement In Britain, C. 1900-1950,
2015
University of Glasgow, Scotland
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,
2015
Auburn University, AL, USA
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,
2015
University of Cambridge, England
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,
2015
George Fox University
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,
2015
University of Birmingham, England
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,
2015
Birmingham, England
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,
2015
University of Birmingham, England
Sox's "Quaker Plant Hunters" - Book Review, Geoffrey Morries
Quaker Studies
No abstract provided.
Gillett's "Abolishing War: One Man's Attempt" - Book Review,
2015
Oxford Brookes University, England
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,
2015
Earlham School of Religion, USA
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,
2015
University of Birmingham, England
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.
