Lamont's "Last Witnesses: The Muggletonian History" - Book Review,
2015
Nottingham Trent University, England
Lamont's "Last Witnesses: The Muggletonian History" - Book Review, Betty Hagglund
Quaker Studies
No abstract provided.
Healey's "From Quaker To Upper Canadian: Faith And Community Among Yonge Street Friends" - Book Review,
2015
Earlham College
Healey's "From Quaker To Upper Canadian: Faith And Community Among Yonge Street Friends" - Book Review, Thomas D. Hamm
Quaker Studies
No abstract provided.
Ashworth's "Paul's Necessary Sin: The Experience Of Liberation" - Book Review,
2015
Earlham School of Religion
Ashworth's "Paul's Necessary Sin: The Experience Of Liberation" - Book Review, Timothy W. Seid
Quaker Studies
No abstract provided.
Cantor's "Quakers, Jews And Science: Religious Responses To Modernity And The Sciences In Britain" - Book Review,
2015
University of Birmingham, England
Cantor's "Quakers, Jews And Science: Religious Responses To Modernity And The Sciences In Britain" - Book Review, Ruth Watts
Quaker Studies
No abstract provided.
Present And Prevented: A Survey Of Membership Activity In Britain Yearly Meeting Of The Religious Society Of Friends (Quakers),
2015
George Fox University
Present And Prevented: A Survey Of Membership Activity In Britain Yearly Meeting Of The Religious Society Of Friends (Quakers), Bill Chadkirk, Pink 'Ben' Dandelion
Quaker Studies
A questionnaire was sent to all Monthly, Preparative and other Business Meetings and worshipping groups in Britain Yearly Meeting for completion on 7 May 2006. With an over 80 percent response rate meaningful statistics can be calculated for attendance at Meetings for worship, Meetings for business and involvement by Friends and attenders in the business of the Society.
Redefining Quaker Simplicity: The Friends Committee On National Legislation Building, 2005,
2015
Portland State University, Oregon
Redefining Quaker Simplicity: The Friends Committee On National Legislation Building, 2005, Margery Post Abbott, Carl Abbott
Quaker Studies
In 2005, the Friends Committee on National Legislation, the major Quaker peace and justice lobbying organization in the United States, completed a substantial remodeling and expansion of its office building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The building exemplifies a self-conscious effort to express Quaker values of simplicity and stewardship in architectural choices. Examining the changing meanings of simplicity as expressed in Quaker meeting houses, this article argues that contemporary Friends in the United States have given nontraditional meanings to the concept and now associate simplicity with environmental stewardship in personal and community life. For example, the use of natural …
'Do We Still Quake?': An Ethnographic And Historical Enquiry,
2015
Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre and University of Birmingham, England
'Do We Still Quake?': An Ethnographic And Historical Enquiry, Pam Lunn
Quaker Studies
Michele Tarter's (2004) essay, on first generation Friends and their prophecy of celestial flesh, explores the striking bodily manifestations of their spiritual experience, particularly 'quaking'. Reflecting on this, she writes: 'it is precisely what we no longer do: quake'. Using interview data from a small group of British Friends I shall show that some twenty-first-century Friends certainly do quake. I use accounts of early quaking, a variety of Quaker commentators, and historical accounts of the understanding of the body, to show the ways in which current quaking is different, and differently understood, from that of early Friends.
'What They Seek For Is In Themselves': Quaker Language And Thought In Eighteenth- And Nineteenth-Century American Literature,
2015
Keele University, England
'What They Seek For Is In Themselves': Quaker Language And Thought In Eighteenth- And Nineteenth-Century American Literature, James Peacock
Quaker Studies
This paper argues that Quakerism was an important influence on a number of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American writers. Looking at the work of, amongst others, Charles Brockden Brown, Robert Montgomery Bird, Ralph Waldo Emerson and John Greenleaf Whittier, it demonstrates that both the stereotyped depiction of Quakers and the use of Quaker ideas, such as the inward light in literature of the period, helped writers tackle some of the paradoxes of democracy in a young nation. The perceived mystery of Quaker individualism is used in these texts first to dramatize anxiety over the formation of American 'character' as either fundamentally …
Slavery, The Slave Trade And The Churches,
2015
University of York, England
Slavery, The Slave Trade And The Churches, James Walvin
Quaker Studies
The British did not initiate, but they came to dominate the Atlantic slave trade. Few expressed moral or ethical doubts about slavery. The Anglican church, was directly involved in slavery. When a Christian voice was raised against the slave trade, it was led by Quakers who also played a critical role in the campaign to end the slave trade.
James Nayler And The Lamb's War,
2015
George Fox University
James Nayler And The Lamb's War, Douglas Gwyn
Quaker Studies
James Nayler was perhaps the most articulate theologian and political spokesman of the earliest Quaker movement. He was part of a West Yorkshire group of radicals who added revolutionary impetus to George Fox's apocalyptic preaching of Christ's coming in the bodies of common men and women. With other Quaker leaders, Nayler insisted upon disestablishment of the Church, abolition of tithes, and disenfranchisement of the clergy, in order that Christ might rule in England, through human conscience. For early Friends, Christ's sovereignty in the conscience was less a principle of individual freedom to dissociate religiously than a basis for collective practices …
Editorial,
2015
George Fox University
Phillips And Lampen's "Endeavors To Mend: Perspectives On British Quaker Work In The World Today" - Book Review,
2015
Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre and University of Birmingham, England
Phillips And Lampen's "Endeavors To Mend: Perspectives On British Quaker Work In The World Today" - Book Review, Pam Lunn
Quaker Studies
No abstract provided.
Homan's "The Art Of The Sublime: Principles Of Christian Art And Architecture",
2015
University of Birmingham, England
Homan's "The Art Of The Sublime: Principles Of Christian Art And Architecture", Pink 'Ben' Dandelion
Quaker Studies
No abstract provided.
Jennings's "Gender, Religion, And Radicalism In The Long Eighteenth Century: The 'Ingenious Quaker' And Her Connections" - Book Review,
2015
Open University, England
Jennings's "Gender, Religion, And Radicalism In The Long Eighteenth Century: The 'Ingenious Quaker' And Her Connections" - Book Review, Edwina Newman
Quaker Studies
No abstract provided.
Three Kinds Of British Friends: A Latent Class Analysis,
2015
George Fox University
Three Kinds Of British Friends: A Latent Class Analysis, Mark S. Cary, Pink 'Ben' Dandelion
Quaker Studies
A latent class analysis was applied to the religious beliefs of 485 respondents in Rosie Rutherford's authoritative 2003 survey of British Friends. The analysis produced three groups: (1) Christian Quakers (27%), who hold a traditional Christian theology; (2) secularized Quakers (37%), who do not consider themselves atheists, but whose conception of God is not personal; and (3) Inner Light Quakers (36%), who emphasize the inner light and 'that of God in everyone' .
Two Kinds Of Quakers: A Latent Class Analysis,
2015
George Fox University
Two Kinds Of Quakers: A Latent Class Analysis, Mark S. Cary, Anita L. Weber
Quaker Studies
A latent class analysis was applied to 531 respondents to the Making New Friends survey of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). We found two distinct patterns of religious beliefs-those in Group G want a deeper and personal relationship with God, while those in Group S are more interested in social testimonies and generally do not believe in a personal God.
Gertrude Von Petzold (1876-1952): Quaker And First Woman Minister,
2015
Freie University, Berlin
Gertrude Von Petzold (1876-1952): Quaker And First Woman Minister, Claus Bernet
Quaker Studies
Gertrude von Petzold was a pioneer in many ways: in England she was the first woman who got a post as a church minister, in Germany she was the first woman who qualified for a professorship in Germanics at Kiel University. At times when woman were not even allowed to vote, von Petzold pursued her academic career eagerly. Her ecumenical attitude resulted in membership within the Lutheran Church, the Unitarians and finally the Quakers.
The Fellowship Of Reconciliation's Propaganda And Theodora Wilson Wilson's Literary Contribution 1914-1917,
2015
George Fox University
The Fellowship Of Reconciliation's Propaganda And Theodora Wilson Wilson's Literary Contribution 1914-1917, Bert Den Boggende
Quaker Studies
During World War I Theodora Wilson Wilson, who shortly before the war had returned to her ancestral Quaker faith, made a unique contribution to the Fellowship of Reconciliation's (FOR) propaganda. Instead of the usual expository writings aimed at the well educated, she wrote simple stories directed at casual readers. They emphasised the kind of activity, 'doing', the FOR leadership had decided to curtail after an attempt at tramping in the Midlands in the summer of 1915 had resulted in a near riot. Her perspective reflected that of many Friends. Some very limited attention has been given to these stories, but …
The Journal Of George Fox: A Technology Of Presence,
2015
Lancaster University, England
The Journal Of George Fox: A Technology Of Presence, Hilary Hinds, Alison Findlay
Quaker Studies
Critics have debated at length whether George Fox's Journal is primarily to be understood within the tradition of seventeenth-century autobiographical writing, or as an historical account of the early Quaker movement. This article suggests that this is a false dichotomy, and argues instead that the Journal might be reconceived as a 'technology of presence': that is, in its attention both to the figure of Fox and to the detailed chronicling of time and place, its principal narrative impetus was to record, demonstrate and reproduce the presence of the returned and indwelling Christ. The Journal thus constitutes, in its form and …
'Children Of Light And Sons Of Darkness': Quakers, Oaths And The Old Bailey Proceedings In The Eighteenth Century,
2015
The Open University, England
'Children Of Light And Sons Of Darkness': Quakers, Oaths And The Old Bailey Proceedings In The Eighteenth Century, Edwina Newman
Quaker Studies
This paper makes use of the technology that allows for the searching of the online edition of the Old Bailey Proceedings. Although Quakers were once very familiar with courts of justice, by the eighteenth century they had become considerably less persecuted than formerly. Their way oflife meant that they did not figure highly among defendants in criminal courts. Their testimony against oaths excluded them too from the ranks of prosecutors and witnesses, the newly won right to affirm not extending to criminal trials. Quakers figure in fewer than 100 of the 45,000 Old Bailey trials in this period. Nevertheless, what …
