The Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies

An indispensable resource for anyone interested in the academic study of Qakerism. Essential.

Auteur

Stephen Angell is Leatherock Professor of Quaker Studies at the Earlham School of Religion. Pink Dandelion is Professor of Quaker Studies at the University of Birmingham.

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This handbook provides an in-depth survey of historical readings of Quakerism; a treatment of its key theological premises and its links with wider Christian thinking; an analysis of its distinctive ecclesiastical forms and practices; chapters on its social, economic, political, and ethical outcomes; as well as an extensive bibliography.

Résumé
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.

Contenu

• List of Contributors

• Introduction

• I: History of Quakerism

• 1: Rosemary Moore: Seventeenth Century Context and Quaker Beginnings, 1646-1666

• 2: Richard C. Allen: Restoration Quakerism, 1666-1691

• 3: Robynne Rogers Healey: Quietist Quakerism, 1692-ca. 1805

• 4: Thomas D. Hamm: Hicksite, Orthodox and Evangelical Quakerism, ca. 1805 1887

• 5: J. William Frost: Modernist and Liberal Quakers, 1887-2010

• 6: Gregory P. Hinshaw: Five Years Meeting and Friends United Meeting, 1887 2010

• 7: Arthur O. Roberts: Evangelical Quakers, 1887-2010

• 8: Lloyd Lee Wilson: Conservative Quakers, 1845-2010

• II: Quaker Theology and Spirituality

• 9: Carole Dale Spencer: Quakers in Theological Context

• 10: Stephen W. Angell: God, Christ, and the Light

• 11: Nikki Coffey Tousley: Sin, Convincement, Purity, and Perfection

• 12: Howard R. Macy: Quakers and Scripture

• 13: Douglas Gwyn: Quakers, Eschatology and Time

• 14: Gerard Guiton: The Kingdom of God, Quakers and the Politics of Compassion

• 15: Mary Van Vleck Garman: Quaker Women s Lives and Spiritualities

• 16: Michael Birkel: Leadings and Discernment

• 17: David L. Johns: Worship and Sacraments

• III: Quaker Witness

• 18: Michael Phillip Graves: Ministry and Preaching

• 19: Sylvia Stevens: Travelling Ministry

• 20: Jacalynn Stuckey Welling: Mission

• 21: Janet Scott: Quakers, other churches and other faith

• 22: Emma Lapsansky: Plainness and Simplicity

• 23: Elizabeth Cazden: Quakers, Antislavery and Race

• 24: Lonnie Valentine: Quakers, War, and Peacemaking

• 25: Mike Nellis and Maureen Waugh: Quakers and Penal reform

• 26: Charles L. Cherry: Quakers and Asylum Reform

• 27: Elizabeth Ann O Donnell: Quakers and Education

• 28: Mark Freeman: Quakers, Business and Philanthropy

• 29: Edwina Newman: Quakers and the Family

• 30: Petra L. Doan and Elizabeth P. Kamphausen: Quakers and Sexuality

• 31: Max L. Carter and Simon Best: Quakers, Youth, and Young Adults

• IV: Quaker Expression

• 32: Betty Hagglund: Quakers. Print Culture, and Literature

• 33: Roger Homan: Quakers and Visual Culture

• 34: Jeffrey Dudiak and Laura Rediehs: Quakers, Philosophy and Truth

• 35: Geoffrey Cantor: Quakers and Science

• 36: Jackie Leach Scully: Quakers and Ethics

• 37: Margery Post Abbott: Global Quakerism and the Future of Friends.