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'Vain Unsettled Fashions': The Early Durham Friends And Popular Culture C. 1660-1725, Erin Bell 2014 University of York

'Vain Unsettled Fashions': The Early Durham Friends And Popular Culture C. 1660-1725, Erin Bell

Quaker Studies

Participation in popular, or worldly, culture was a moot point for the early Friends. Although they were not encouraged to do so many still took part in aspects of male or female culture, but experienced tension between Quaker and 'carnal' ideals of behaviour. Female Friends were expected to limit their clothing according to the edicts of their Yearly Meeting, although female culture treated clothing as a medium of exchange and' gifting clothing was central to female social life. This proved difficult for women such as Sarah Kirkby (d.1692) of Auckland, a fabric seller, who traded with non-Quakers and could not …


Tradition Versus Innovation: The Hat, Wilkinson-Story And Keithian Controversies, Clare J. L. Martin 2014 The Open University, England

Tradition Versus Innovation: The Hat, Wilkinson-Story And Keithian Controversies, Clare J. L. Martin

Quaker Studies

The post-Restoration period saw the development of the Society of Friends from an ill-defined religious group to a well-ordered denomination. This process of institutionalisation was marked by struggle between Friends' traditional emphasis upon the freedom of the light within to guide the individual and the need to impose some order upon the Society. The process saw perceived innovations develop into accepted traditions and is most clearly demonstrated by the Quaker controversies of this period. The 'Hat Controversy' of the 1660s shows early resistance to the innovation of some Friends exerting their authority over the consciences of others. Although this controversy …


Review Article - Recent Publications In Quaker Studies, Farah Mendlesohn 2014 Middlesex University

Review Article - Recent Publications In Quaker Studies, Farah Mendlesohn

Quaker Studies

Quaker studies is a disparate and varied field. Like many a new area of research it suffers from a lack of contact between researchers and the inability of all but a select few to make a career in the field. As a consequence, excellent work may go unnoticed and unreported because the individual author is not part of any national association or academic network or because the absence of scholarly interest in the field means that many texts are published by small presses and come to light only in the rarefied atmosphere of Friends House book shop. The mission of …


Voltaire's Convincement, Raymond Ayoub 2014 Penn State University

Voltaire's Convincement, Raymond Ayoub

Quaker Studies

The aim of this essay is to trace the evolution of Voltaire's perspective toward Quakers and Quakerism during the course of his life. The record begins when in 1726 he was forced into exile and chose to go to England. In the course of his three-year stay there, he wrote letters to his friend-letters which were published in 1733 in English under the title 'Letters Concerning the English Nation' and in French with the title 'Lettres Philosophiques'. Four of the 25 letters are devoted to Quakerism. We endeavour to depict, through his writing, Voltaire's changing attitude toward Quakerism from one …


Bayard Rustin: An Annotated Bibliography Of Materials Relating To Rustin As A Quaker And Peace Activist, Buzz Haughton 2014 University of California

Bayard Rustin: An Annotated Bibliography Of Materials Relating To Rustin As A Quaker And Peace Activist, Buzz Haughton

Quaker Studies

Although Bayard Rustin was one of the most important leaders of the American civil rights movement from the advent of its modern period in the 1950s until well into the 1980s, his name was seldom mentioned; he received comparatively little press or media attention, and others' names were usually much more readily associated with the movement than his was. His was a behind-the-scenes role that, for all its importance, never garnered Rustin the public acclaim he deserved. Rustin's homosexuality and early communist affiliation probably meant that the importance of his contribution to the civil rights and peace movements would never …


Aesthetics In Science, As Practised By Quakers In The Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries, Geoffrey Cantor 2014 University of Leeds

Aesthetics In Science, As Practised By Quakers In The Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries, Geoffrey Cantor

Quaker Studies

Drawing on examples from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it will be argued that the sciences - but particularly observational sciences such as astronomy, botany and meteorology - were highly acceptable to Quakers. Moreover, the study of nature was vested with an aesthetic that emphasised God as the Creator of nature and of order and beauty in the natural world. While many wealthy Quakers participated in these sciences, botany also provided employment for Quakers from less affiuent backgrounds. Hence a number Quakers made careers as botanical lecturers, writers, publishers and illustrators. The role of the botanical illustrator is explored to …


Masonic-The Greatness And Antiquity Of Free Masonry, Charles C. Chapman 2014 Chapman University

Masonic-The Greatness And Antiquity Of Free Masonry, Charles C. Chapman

Charles C. Chapman Masonic Speeches

These are notes for a speech Chapman gave addressing the topic of freemasonry.


Masonic-The Meaning Of Free Masonry, Charles C. Chapman 2014 Chapman University

Masonic-The Meaning Of Free Masonry, Charles C. Chapman

Charles C. Chapman Masonic Speeches

Here are the text and notes of a speech given by Chapman addressing the principles and foundations of freemasonry - among them wisdom, beauty, strength, morality, equality, and rectitude of life.


Power, Violence, And The Church's Responsibility For Peace-Building, Dr. David H. Kajom 2014 Asbury Theological Seminary

Power, Violence, And The Church's Responsibility For Peace-Building, Dr. David H. Kajom

The WATS Journal: An Online Journal from West Africa Theological Seminary

No abstract provided.


Sears Family Papers (Mss 518), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2014 Western Kentucky University

Sears Family Papers (Mss 518), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 518. Full text of Sears family documents can be accessed by clicking "Additional Files" below. Shaker manuscript hymnal commenced by Polly Ann Smith in 1848; copy book of Shaker Chauncey E. Sears, 1840-1870, which includes occasional original poems and essays by Sears as well as short examples of popular and historical authors; an 1829 letter from Rufus Bishop that extols the moral virtues of the Shakers; historical and genealogical information about the Sears family.


The City And The Mission Of God: A New Paradigm For Christian Missions, Dr. Godspower Ugboh 2014 Asbury Theological Seminary

The City And The Mission Of God: A New Paradigm For Christian Missions, Dr. Godspower Ugboh

The WATS Journal: An Online Journal from West Africa Theological Seminary

No abstract provided.


South Union Messenger (Fall 2014), Kentucky Library Research Collections 2014 Western Kentucky University

South Union Messenger (Fall 2014), Kentucky Library Research Collections

South Union Messenger

No abstract provided.


Living An Earthly Life In View Of Its Eternal Consequence: A Dialogue With The Prologue And Epilogue Of The Hebrew Qoheleth, Joel Kamsen Tihitshak Biwul 2014 Asbury Theological Seminary

Living An Earthly Life In View Of Its Eternal Consequence: A Dialogue With The Prologue And Epilogue Of The Hebrew Qoheleth, Joel Kamsen Tihitshak Biwul

The WATS Journal: An Online Journal from West Africa Theological Seminary

No abstract provided.


Theological Education And Leadership Development, Ray Easley 2014 Asbury Theological Seminary

Theological Education And Leadership Development, Ray Easley

The WATS Journal: An Online Journal from West Africa Theological Seminary

No abstract provided.


Early Carthusian Script And Silence, Bennett Gilbert 2014 Portland State University

Early Carthusian Script And Silence, Bennett Gilbert

University Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

At its founding and during its first three decades, the Carthusian order developed a distinctive and forceful concept of communication among the members and between the members and the extramural world. Saint Bruno’s life, contemporary twelfth-century exegesis, and the physical situation of La Grande Chartreuse established the necessary context in which this concept evolved. A review of historical background, the relevant documentary texts, and early development demonstrate the shaping of two steps in this concept. Close reading of the principal testimonies of Carthusians Bruno, Guigo I, Guigo II, and some other witnesses, as well as of some passages in Saint …


Of Bombs, Grenades & The Church: Violent Attacks Of Islamic Militias And The Ethical-Theological Options For Evangelical Christians In Northern Nigeria, Matthew Michael 2014 Asbury Theological Seminary

Of Bombs, Grenades & The Church: Violent Attacks Of Islamic Militias And The Ethical-Theological Options For Evangelical Christians In Northern Nigeria, Matthew Michael

The WATS Journal: An Online Journal from West Africa Theological Seminary

No abstract provided.


Journal In Entirety, 2014 Asbury Theological Seminary

Journal In Entirety

The WATS Journal: An Online Journal from West Africa Theological Seminary

No abstract provided.


Andrews University Theological Seminary Releases Statement On Church Headship, Becky St. Clair 2014 Andrews University

Andrews University Theological Seminary Releases Statement On Church Headship, Becky St. Clair

Lake Union Herald

No abstract provided.


Exploring Parallels In The Bible, The Analects, And The Epic Of Gilgamesh, Cassidy McFarling 2014 Indiana State University

Exploring Parallels In The Bible, The Analects, And The Epic Of Gilgamesh, Cassidy Mcfarling

University Honors Program

The primary aim of this thesis is to explore parallels in The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Analects, and the Bible. By tracking and describing seven different areas of resemblance, the research illustrates philosophical and narrative overlap. More importantly, an examination of the psychological and social forces behind such literature suggests that correspondence in wisdom literature reveals universal concerns and desires that transcend cultural boundary.


Martin Luther Stands In History As A Leader Of The Protestant Reformation, Nickie Kranz 2014 Minnesota State University, Mankato

Martin Luther Stands In History As A Leader Of The Protestant Reformation, Nickie Kranz

Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato

Martin Luther, often called the father of Protestantism, fundamentally changed the Christian world through his force of will and new ideas. He tried passionately to reform the Catholic Church. His desire was to return Christianity to its roots, putting more focus on the reading of scripture and less focus on Catholic dominance. His personal theology inclined him to write works including The Sermon on Good Works and the 95 Theses. Once these works were distributed, the Roman Emperor placed him under an imperial ban. Martin Luther escaped and hid in a castle to avoid imprisonment and/or death. During his hiding, …


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