Quaker Studies: An Overview

Quaker Studies: An Overview
Author: C. Wess Daniels
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 119
Release: 2018-03-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004365079

In this introductory volume to the Brill Research Perspectives series on Quaker Studies, Quaker Studies, An Overview: The Current State of the Field, C. Wess Daniels, Robynne Rogers Healey, and Jon Kershner investigate Quaker Studies, divided into the three fields of history, theology and philosophy, and sociology. With a focus on schisms, transatlantic networks, colonialism, abolition, gender and equality, and pacifism from Quaker origins onward, Healey explores the rich diversity and complexity of research and interpretation that has emerged in Quaker history. Kershner explores comparisons and divergences in contemporary Quaker theology and philosophy. Special attention is paid to Quaker biblical hermeneutics, mysticism, ethics, epistemology and Global Quakerism. Daniels looks at the sociology of Quakerism as a new field of study that has only recently begun to be explored and developed. He surveys the field of sociological work done within Quakerism from the 1960s to the present day.

The Quakers: A Very Short Introduction

The Quakers: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Pink Dandelion
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2008-02-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0199206791

The Quakers are a fascinating religious group both in their origins and in the variety of reinterpretations of the faith since. This Very Short Introduction charts the history of Quakerism and its present-day diversity, and outlines its approach to worship, belief, theology and language, and ecumenism.

New Critical Studies on Early Quaker Women, 1650-1800

New Critical Studies on Early Quaker Women, 1650-1800
Author: Michele Lise Tarter
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2018-04-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0192545329

New Critical Studies on Early Quaker Women, 1650—1800 takes a fresh look at archival and printed sources from England and America, elucidating why women were instrumental to the Quaker movement from its inception to its establishment as a transatlantic religious body. This authoritative volume, the first collection to focus entirely on the contributions of women, is a landmark study of their distinctive religious and gendered identities. The chapters connect three richly woven threads of Quaker women's lives—Revolutions, Disruptions and Networks—by tying gendered experience to ruptures in religion across this radical, volatile period of history.

Quaker Epistemology

Quaker Epistemology
Author: Laura Rediehs
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2019-10-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004419012

Quaker Epistemology analyzes a distinctive ‘Inward Light’ theory of knowledge. This expanded experiential empiricism integrates spiritual and religious knowledge with an ethically grounded vision of scientific knowledge.

The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism

The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism
Author: Stephen W. Angell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2018-04-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1107136601

A vigorous, innovative, compelling introduction to Quakers, fully global in reach, and utilizing the best Quaker scholars from every continent.

An Introduction to Quakerism

An Introduction to Quakerism
Author: Pink Dandelion
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2007-04-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521841119

An introduction to Quaker history, theology and practice that addresses the diversity of Quakerism today.

Quakerism in the Atlantic World, 1690–1830

Quakerism in the Atlantic World, 1690–1830
Author: Robynne Rogers Healey
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2021-02-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0271089652

This third installment in the New History of Quakerism series is a comprehensive assessment of transatlantic Quakerism across the long eighteenth century, a period during which Quakers became increasingly sectarian even as they expanded their engagement with politics, trade, industry, and science. The contributors to this volume interrogate and deconstruct this paradox, complicating traditional interpretations of what has been termed “Quietist Quakerism.” Examining the period following the Toleration Act in England of 1689 through the Hicksite-Orthodox Separation in North America, this work situates Quakers in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world. Three thematic sections—exploring unique Quaker testimonies and practices; tensions between Quakerism in community and Quakerism in the world; and expressions of Quakerism around the Atlantic world—broaden geographic understandings of the Quaker Atlantic experience to determine how local events shaped expressions of Quakerism. The authors challenge oversimplified interpretations of Quaker practices and reveal a complex Quaker world, one in which prescription and practice were more often negotiated than dictated, even after the mid-eighteenth-century “reformation” and tightening of the Discipline on both sides of the Atlantic. Accessible and well-researched, Quakerism in the Atlantic World, 1690-1830, provides fresh insights and raises new questions about an understudied period of Quaker history. In addition to the editor, the contributors to this volume include Richard C. Allen, Erin Bell, Erica Canela, Elizabeth Cazden, Andrew Fincham, Sydney Harker, Rosalind Johnson, Emma Lapsansky-Werner, Jon Mitchell, and Geoffrey Plank.

The Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies
Author: Stephen W. Angell
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 793
Release: 2013-09-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0191667374

Quakerism began in England in the 1650s. George Fox, credited as leading the movement, had an experience of 1647 in which he felt he could hear Christ directly and inwardly without the mediation of text or minister. Convinced of the authenticity of this experience and its universal application, Fox preached a spirituality in which potentially all were ministers, all part of a priesthood of believers, a church levelled before the leadership of God. Quakers are a fascinating religious group both in their original 'peculiarity' and in the variety of reinterpretations of the faith since. The way they have interacted with wider society is a basic but often unknown part of British and American history. This handbook charts their history and the history of their expression as a religious community. This volume provides an indispensable reference work for the study of Quakerism. It is global in its perspectives and interdisciplinary in its approach whilst offering the reader a clear narrative through the academic debates. In addition to an in-depth survey of historical readings of Quakerism, the handbook provides a treatment of the group's key theological premises and its links with wider Christian thinking. Quakerism's distinctive ecclesiastical forms and practices are analysed, and its social, economic, political, and ethical outcomes examined. Each of the 37 chapters considers broader religious, social, and cultural contexts and provides suggestions for further reading and the volume concludes with an extensive bibliography to aid further research.

Irish Quaker Hybrid Identities

Irish Quaker Hybrid Identities
Author: Maria Kennedy
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2019-09-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 900441519X

Kennedy’s work investigates the hybrid identities of Irish Quakers within a context of sectarianism. Such diverse identities produce organisational tensions. Kennedy argues that Irish Quakers have developed a distinctive approach to complex identity management prioritising ‘relational unity’ and modelling inclusive identities.