British Quakerism 1860 1920

Author : Thomas C. Kennedy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0198270356

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British Quakerism, 1860-1920 by Thomas C. Kennedy Pdf

Professor Kennedy's book chronicles the metamorphosis of the British Society of Friends from a tiny, self-isolated body of peculiar people into a theologically liberal, spiritually vital association of activists. Defined by a strong social commitment and enduring pacifist ethic British Quakersassumed an importance in society out of all proportion to their minuscule numbers. This transformation was, first and foremost, the product of a spiritual and intellectual struggle among Quaker factions-evangelical, conservative, and liberal-seeking to delineate the future path of their religiousSociety. Inspired by the leadership of a remarkable band of intellectually acute, theologically progressive, and spiritually committed men and women, London Yearly Meeting was both reformed and revitalised during the so-called Quaker Renaissance. Simultaneously embracing advanced modern ideas andreiterating their attachment to traditional Quaker principles, especially the egalitarian concept of the Inner Light of Christ and a revived peace testimony, liberal Quakers prepared the ground for their Society's dramatic confrontation with the Warrior State after 1914. Official Quaker resistance to the Great War not only fixed the image of the Society of Friends as Britain's most authentic and significant peace church, it also brought a group of talented and determined Quaker women into the front lines of the Society's struggle against war and conscription, aposition from which twentieth-century female Friends have never retreated. Quakerism emerged from the war as the religious body least tainted by spiritual compromise. Thus, when British Quakers hosted the first World Conference of All Friends in 1920, they could take satisfaction in their struggle to keep alive the voce of pacifist conscience and express renewed hope intheir enduring mission to create the Kingdom of God on earth.

Author : Thomas Cummins Kennedy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Society of Friends
ISBN : OCLC:1310592976

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British Quakerism, 1860-1920 by Thomas Cummins Kennedy Pdf

Author : Robynne Rogers Healey and Carole Dale Spencer
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780271096230

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Quaker Women, 1800–1920 by Robynne Rogers Healey and Carole Dale Spencer Pdf

Author : Joanna Dales
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004438415

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The Quaker Renaissance and Liberal Quakerism in Britain, 1895-1930 by Joanna Dales Pdf

Many 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.

Author : Thomas D. Hamm
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004430730

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Liberal Quakerism in America in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1790-1920 by Thomas D. Hamm Pdf

A self-conscious liberal Quakerism emerged in North America between 1790 and 1920. It shared three characteristics: commitment to liberty of conscience; questioning of Christian orthodoxy; and an insistence that liberalism was a continuation of historic Quakerism.

Author : Nicholas Burton,Richard Turnbull
Publisher : Springer
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030040345

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Quakers, Business and Corporate Responsibility by Nicholas Burton,Richard Turnbull Pdf

This book explores how the distinctive "Quaker" approach to responsible business is based on honesty, truth and integrity. It analyzes how networks, family and succession are at its heart, and how much this approach offers to current debates on corporate social responsibility, as well as to managers and practitioners in an increasingly complex business world. The contributions in this volume assess the factors that explain the success and prosperity of many Quaker businesses throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, discussing the lessons learned from their disappearance from prominence. By drawing upon examples that illustrate the Quaker ethic, it also considers what so-called “Quakernomics” can contribute to contemporary responsible business theory and practice.

Author : Stephen W. Angell,Pink Dandelion,David Harrington Watt
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780271095752

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The Creation of Modern Quaker Diversity, 1830–1937 by Stephen W. Angell,Pink Dandelion,David Harrington Watt Pdf

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.

Author : Thomas M. King
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781105695407

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History of San Jose Quakers, West Coast Friends by Thomas M. King Pdf

History of San Jose Quakers, West Coast Friends West Coast Quakers (1846-1930s)

Author : Satish Sharma
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781527505070

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Quakerism, Its Legacy, and Its Relevance for Gandhian Research by Satish Sharma Pdf

This elaborate book explores Quakerism, its legacy, and its relevance for Gandhian research. The topics covered here include the historical circumstances, conditions, and thought that led to the birth of Quakerism; the seeds and history of the movement; the themes, principles, and practices of the sect; and the aid, change, reform, and conciliation efforts Quakers made to make people, communities, and nations more tolerant, problem-free, and united. As such, the book will appeal to scholars, planners, policy-makers, and practitioners concerned with the boundaries of liberties, freedoms, pacifism, peace, and justice across people, communities, and nations.

Author : Sandra Stanley Holton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135141172

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Quaker Women by Sandra Stanley Holton Pdf

One nineteenth-century commentator noted the ‘public’ character of Quaker women as signalling a new era in female history. This study examines such claims through the story of middle-class women Friends from among the kinship circle created by the marriage in 1839 of Elizabeth Priestman and the future radical Quaker statesman, John Bright. The lives discussed here cover a period from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, and include several women Friends active in radical politics and the women’s movement, in the service of which they were able to mobilise extensive national and international networks. They also created and preserved a substantial archive of private papers, comprising letters and diaries full of humour and darkness, the spiritual and the mundane, family confidences and public debate, the daily round and affairs of state. The discovery of such a collection makes it possible to examine the relationship between the personal and public lives of these women Friends, explored through a number of topics including the nature of Quaker domestic and church cultures; the significance of kinship and church membership for the building of extensive Quaker networks; the relationship between Quaker religious values and women’s participation in civil society and radical politics and the women’s rights movement. There are also fresh perspectives on the political career of John Bright, provided by his fond but frank women kin. This new study is a must read for all those interested in the history of women, religion and politics.

Author : Isaac Barnes May
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004522510

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American Quaker Resistance to War, 1917–1973 by Isaac Barnes May Pdf

This historical survey of Quakers in the United States and their responses to war from World War I through the Vietnam conflict demonstrates that Quakers' responses to war resulted from internal struggles and the influence of the state.

Author : Stephen Ward Angell,Pink Dandelion
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781107136601

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The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism by Stephen Ward Angell,Pink Dandelion Pdf

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

Author : Luke Kelly
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319651903

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British Humanitarian Activity in Russia, 1890-1923 by Luke Kelly Pdf

This book analyses the efforts of British civil society to help a Russia seen to be struggling between 1890 and the 1920s. Luke Kelly seeks to show why churches, pressure groups, charities, politicians and journalists came to promote religious and political liberty and to relieve the victims of famines in late-tsarist and early communist Russia. By focusing on the roles of Christian, Jewish and liberal interests in deploying humanitarian solutions, Kelly shows how humanitarianism developed ‘from below’, while also examining the growth of a broader humanitarian discourse in the context of the Anglo-Russian relationship.

Author : Margery Post Abbott
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780810868571

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Historical Dictionary of the Friends (Quakers) by Margery Post Abbott Pdf

The modern reputation of Friends in the United States and Europe is grounded in the relief work they have conducted in the presence and aftermath of war. Friends (also known as Quakers) have coordinated the feeding and evacuation of children from war zones around the world. They have helped displaced persons without regard to politics. They have engaged in the relief of suffering in places as far-flung as Ireland, France, Germany, Ethiopia, Egypt, China, and India. Their work was acknowledged with the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947 to the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and the Friends Service Council of Great Britain. More often, however, Quakers live, worship, and work quietly, without seeking public attention for themselves. Now, the Friends are a truly worldwide body and are recognized by their Christ-centered message of integrity and simplicity, as well as their nonviolent stance and affirmation of the belief that all people--women as well as men--may be called to the ministry. The expanded second edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Friends (Quakers) relates the history of the Friends through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 700 cross-referenced dictionary entries on concepts, significant figures, places, activities, and periods. This book is an excellent access point for scholars and students, who will find the overviews and sources for further research provided by this book to be enormously helpful.

Author : C. Wess Daniels,Robynne Rogers Healey,Jon R. Kershner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004365070

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Quaker Studies: An Overview by C. Wess Daniels,Robynne Rogers Healey,Jon R. Kershner Pdf

Jon R. Kershner, Robynne Rogers Healey and C. Wess Daniels explore the historiography and contemporary fields of Quaker theology and philosophy, history, and the rise of sociology. Developments within Quaker Studies are compared to external sources and tracked over time.