Editorial (Quaker Studies Volume 14, Issue 2),
2015
University of Birmingham, England
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,
2015
University of Durham, England
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,
2015
Centre for Postgraduate Quaker Studies, University of Birmingham, England
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,
2015
University of Birmingham
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,
2015
Nottingham Trent University, England
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,
2015
University of Durham, England
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,
2015
Centre for Postgraduate Quaker Studies, University of Birmingham, England
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,
2015
Cardiff University, Wales
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,
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.
'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.
The Role Of Edward Vi In The Development Of The English Reformation,
2015
Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
The Role Of Edward Vi In The Development Of The English Reformation, Lisa Eaton-Adams
Master of Art Theology Thesis
The implied conclusion is that since the reforms were forced-the connotations of the term make its use questionable, but that is a separate issue-upon the church by the government, and since Edward was a minor, the government being dominated by the dukes of Somerset and Northumberland, Edward himself was therefore a negligible factor in the reforms implemented during his reign.
It is not within the scope of this paper to assess the secular politics or military developments of Edward's reign. What does concern us here is the question of the extent to which Edward was a factor in the development …
Hartford Puritanism: Thomas Hooker, Samuel Stone, And Their Terrifying God,
2015
Gettysburg College
Hartford Puritanism: Thomas Hooker, Samuel Stone, And Their Terrifying God, Baird L. Tipson
Gettysburg College Faculty Books
Statues of Thomas Hooker and Samuel Stone grace downtown Hartford, Connecticut, but few residents are aware of the distinctive version of Puritanism that these founding ministers of Hartford's First Church carried into the Connecticut wilderness (or indeed that the city takes its name from Stone's English birthplace). Shaped by interpretations of the writings of Saint Augustine largely developed during the ministers' years at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Hartford's church order diverged in significant ways from its counterpart in the churches of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Hartford Puritanism argues for a new paradigm of New England Puritanism. Hartford's founding ministers, Baird Tipson …
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 …
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 …
