Creation of Modern Quaker Diversity, 1830–1937
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Stephen W. Angell is Leatherock Professor of Quakerism at the Earlham School of Religion.
Pink Dandelion directs the work of the Centre for Research in Quaker Studies at Woodbrooke and is Professor of Quaker Studies at the University of Birmingham and a Research Fellow at Lancaster University.
David Harrington Watt is Dorothy and Douglas Steere Professor of Quaker Studies at Haverford College.
<p>“This volume and series deserve to attract readers from inside and outside the denomination who will embrace this collection as an intrinsically diverse replacement for single-author magisterial histories.”</p><p>—Jennifer Rycenga <i>Reading Religion</i></p>
<p>“<i>The Creation of Modern Quaker Diversity</i> offers compelling analyses of a particularly turbulent period in Quaker history and is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand more about the origins and evolution of Quakerism as it exists in its many forms today.”</p><p>—Lily R. Chadwick <i>Religious Studies Review</i></p>
<p>“<i>The Creation of Modern Quaker Diversity, 1830-1937</i> is the authoritative assessment of global Quakerism from 1830 to 1937. It makes extensive use of multiple genres of primary sources and has left no stone unturned in finding a diverse range of voices to include. While other books have dealt with individual topics, this volume provides in one place an examination of the period.”</p><p>—Jon R. Kershner, author of<i> John Woolman and the Government of Christ: A Colonial Quaker's Vision for the British Atlantic World</i></p>
<p>“This collection of essays represents the most significant scholarship on modern Quakerism produced to date. It will be the go-to source for all future students and scholars working on Quakerism during the key period of its modernization.”</p><p>—Matthew S. Hedstrom, author of <i>The Rise of Liberal Religion: Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth Century</i></p>
The period from 1830 to 1937 was transformative for modern Quakerism. Practitioners made significant contributions to world culture, from their heavy involvement in the abolitionist and women’s rights movements and creation of thriving communities of Friends in the Global South to the large-scale post–World War I humanitarian relief efforts of the American Friends Service Committee and Friends Service Council in Britain.
The Creation of Modern Quaker Diversity, 1830–1937 explores these developments and the impact they had on the Quaker religion and on the broader world. Chapters examine the changes taking place within the denomination at the time, including separations, particularly in the United States, that resulted in the establishment of distinct branches, and a series of all-Quaker conferences in the early twentieth century that set the agenda for Quakerism.
Written by the leading experts in the field, this engaging narrative and penetrating analysis is the authoritative account of this period of Quaker history. It will appeal to scholars and lay Quaker readers alike and is an essential volume for meeting libraries.
In addition to the editors, the contributors include Joanna Clare Dales, Richard Kent Evans, Douglas Gwyn, Thomas D. Hamm, Robynne Rogers Healey, Julie L. Holcomb, Sylvester A. Johnson, Stephanie Midori Komashin, Emma Jones Lapsansky, Isaac Barnes May, Nicola Sleapwood, Carole Dale Spencer, and Randall L. Taylor.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Remapping of Quakerism, 1830–1937
Pink Dandelion
1. Quakers and Empire
Sylvester A. Johnson and Stephen W. Angell
2. Quakers and Reform in Nineteenth-Century America: Friends’ Response to Antislavery, Women’s Rights, and the American Civil War
Julie L. Holcomb
3. The Loss of Peculiarity and the New Quaker Identity: The Outward and the Inward Life
Emma Jones Lapsansky
4. The Revival, 1860–1880
Thomas D. Hamm
5. Quakers and the Growth of the Pastoral System
Isaac Barnes May
6. Quakers and “Religious Madness”
Richard Kent Evans
7. Quakers of the Liberal Renaissance, 1870–1930: Rediscovering the Light Within
Joanna Clare Dales
8. The Delineation of Quaker Spiritualities
Carole Dale Spencer
9. Quakers and the Social Order, 1830–1937
Nicola Sleapwood and Thomas D. Hamm
10. Quakers and Missions, 1861–1937
Stephen W. Angell
11. The Peace Testimony and the Crisis of World War I
Robynne Rogers Healey
12. Quakers in Politics
Stephanie Midori Komashin and Randall L. Taylor
13. The All-Friends Conferences and Their Effects
Douglas Gwyn
Afterword: Rufus Jones and Quaker History
David Harrington Watt
Notes
Selected Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
An indispensable exploration of the development of the modern, diverse expressions of the Quaker way.
Written by the leading experts in the field, this volume is the authoritative account of this period of Quaker history.
Charts the end of a single Quaker tradition and the development and growth of multiple types of Quaker theological emphasis
Follows the resurgence of Quaker missionary work, the introduction of pastoral Quakerism, and the development of Quakerism as a global faith;
• Explains the considerable change in Quaker attitudes and responses to wider society and a cultivation of conformity as Quakers embraced citizenship and civic participation.
The first historical series in Quaker studies in over a century, these volumes offer a fresh, comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of the history of Quakerism from its seventeenth-century origins to the twenty-first century.
The first historical series in Quaker studies in over a century, these volumes offer a fresh, comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of the history of Quakerism from its seventeenth-century origins to the twenty-first century. Using critical methodologies, this limited series emphasizes key events and movements, examines all branches of Quakerism, and explores its global reach.
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Stephen W. Angell is Leatherock Professor of Quakerism at the Earlham School of Religion.
Pink Dandelion directs the work of the Centre for Research in Quaker Studies at Woodbrooke and is Professor of Quaker Studies at the University of Birmingham and a Research Fellow at Lancaster University.
David Harrington Watt is Dorothy and Douglas Steere Professor of Quaker Studies at Haverford College.