Joseph John Gurney: Banker, Reformer, and Quaker
Author: David E. Swift
Publisher:
Published: 1962
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13:
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The Transformation of American Quakerism
Author: Thomas D. Hamm
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780253360045
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Hamm has simply produced the best book on Quaker history in recent years." -- Quaker History ..". will stand as one of the most important works in the field." -- American Historical Review
Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia
Author: E. Digby Baltzell
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-07-28
Total Pages: 604
ISBN-13: 1351495348
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on the biographies of some three hundred people in each city, this book shows how such distinguished Boston families as the Adamses, Cabots, Lowells, and Peabodys have produced many generations of men and women who have made major contributions to the intellectual, educational, and political life of their state and nation. At the same time, comparable Philadelphia families such as the Biddles, Cadwaladers, Ingersolls, and Drexels have contributed far fewer leaders to their state and nation. From the days of Benjamin Franklin and Stephen Girard down to the present, what leadership there has been in Philadelphia has largely been provided by self-made men, often, like Franklin, born outside Pennsylvania.Baltzell traces the differences in class authority and leadership in these two cites to the contrasting values of the Puritan founders of the Bay Colony and the Quaker founders of the City of Brotherly Love. While Puritans placed great value on the calling or devotion to one's chosen vocation, Quakers have always placed more emphasis on being a good person than on being a good judge or statesman. Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia presents a provocative view of two contrasting upper classes and also reflects the author's larger concern with the conflicting values of hierarchy and egalitarianism in American history.
The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism
Author: Stephen W. Angell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-03-31
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 1108548520
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cambridge Companion to Quakerism offers a fresh, up-to-date, and accessible introduction to Quakerism. Quakerism is founded on radical ideas and its history of constancy and change offers fascinating insights into the nature of non-conformity. In a series of eighteen essays written by an international team of scholars, and commissioned especially for this volume, the Companion covers the history of Quakerism from its origins to the present day. Employing a range of methodologies, it features sections on the history of Quaker faith and practice, expressions of Quaker faith, regional studies, and emerging spiritualities. It also examines all branches of Quakerism, including evangelical, liberal, and conservative, as well as non-theist Quakerism and convergent Quaker thought. This Companion will serve as an essential resource for all interested in Quaker thought and practice.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Published: 1964
Total Pages: 1116
ISBN-13:
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The Creation of Modern Quaker Diversity, 1830–1937
Author: Stephen W. Angell
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2023-04-28
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 027109575X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Historical Dictionary of the Friends (Quakers)
Author: Margery Post Abbott
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2003-03-12
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 081086603X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) is small by anyone's definition, with only about 300,000 members worldwide, but its impact has been widely felt. Unlike other historical dictionaries, the authors present a series of worldwide essays on Quaker theology, history, and practice as well as the lives of individuals who have made this faith their life. The entries prove the variety among Friends today and also gives a clear sense of unity despite their diverse membership and their periodic disagreements and divisions.
The Rabbi's Atheist Daughter
Author: Bonnie S. Anderson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0199756244
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first modern biography of one of the nineteenth century's most prominent radical activists, written by an acclaimed senior feminist historian.
The Quaker Renaissance and Liberal Quakerism in Britain, 1895-1930
Author: Joanna Dales
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-07-20
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 9004438416
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany Quakers who reached maturity towards the end of the nineteenth century found that their parents’ religion had lost its connection with reality. New discoveries in science and biblical research called for new approaches to Christian faith. Evangelical beliefs dominant among nineteenth-century Quakers were now found wanting, especially those emphasising the supreme authority of the Bible and doctrines of atonement, whereby the wrath of God is appeased through the blood of Christ. Liberal Quakers sought a renewed sense of reality in their faith through recovering the vision of the first Quakers with their sense of the Light of God within each person. They also borrowed from mainstream liberal theology new attitudes to God, nature and service to society. The ensuing Quaker Renaissance found its voice at the Manchester Conference of 1895, and the educational initiatives which followed gave to British Quakerism an active faith fit for the testing reality of the twentieth century.
The World of William Penn
Author: Richard S. Dunn
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2015-09-29
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 1512801968
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of 20 essays, by a distinguished panel of specialists in British and American history, that explores the complex political, economic, intellectual, religious, and social environment in which William Penn lived and worked.
