The Influence of Quaker Women on American History
Author: John Stoneburner
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 493
ISBN-13: 9780889465497
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John Stoneburner
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 493
ISBN-13: 9780889465497
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Michele Lise Tarter
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 0198814224
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection offers a reassessment of early Quaker women. With a central focus on gender, the contributors highlight new discoveries and interpretations about these transatlantic women Friends' pivotal revolutions, disruptions, and networks.
Author: Margaret Hope Bacon
Publisher: Harper San Francisco
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Tracing the roots of feminism in the Quaker tradition from the Reformation to the present, this study explores the Quaker religious practices that shaped the spiritual and social structure of both the Society of Friends and the feminist movement.
Author: John Stoneburner
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 528
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A study of the influence of a number of Quaker women in America, this text moves beyond narrow denominationalism to pose questions about the nature and implications of religious experience.
Author: Thomas D. Hamm
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0231123639
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Quakers in America is a multifaceted history of the Religious Society of Friends and a fascinating study of its culture and controversies today. Lively vignettes of Conservative, Evangelical, Friends General Conference, and Friends United meetings illuminate basic Quaker theology and reflect the group's diversity while also highlighting the fundamental unity within the religion. Quaker culture encompasses a rich tradition of practice even as believers continue to debate whether Quakerism is necessarily Christian, where religious authority should reside, how one transmits faith to children, and how gender and sexuality shape religious belief and behavior. Praised for its rich insight and wide-ranging perspective, The Quakers in America is a penetrating account of an influential, vibrant, and often misunderstood religious sect. Known best for their long-standing commitment to social activism, pacifism, fair treatment for Native Americans, and equality for women, the Quakers have influenced American thought and society far out of proportion to their relatively small numbers. Whether in the foreign policy arena (the American Friends Service Committee), in education (the Friends schools), or in the arts (prominent Quakers profiled in this book include James Turrell, Bonnie Raitt, and James Michener), Quakers have left a lasting imprint on American life. This multifaceted book is a concise history of the Religious Society of Friends; an introduction to its beliefs and practices; and a vivid picture of the culture and controversies of the Friends today. The book opens with lively vignettes of Conservative, Evangelical, Friends General Conference, and Friends United meetings that illuminate basic Quaker concepts and theology and reflect the group's diversity in the wake of the sectarian splintering of the nineteenth century. Yet the book also examines commonalities among American Friends that demonstrate a fundamental unity within the religion: their commitments to worship, the ministry of all believers, decision making based on seeking spiritual consensus rather than voting, a simple lifestyle, and education. Thomas Hamm shows that Quaker culture encompasses a rich tradition of practice even as believers continue to debate a number of central questions: Is Quakerism necessarily Christian? Where should religious authority reside? Is the self sacred? How does one transmit faith to children? How do gender and sexuality shape religious belief and behavior? Hamm's analysis of these debates reveals a vital religion that prizes both unity and diversity.
Author: Naomi Pullin
Publisher: Cambridge Studies in Early Mod
Published: 2018-05-24
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1316510239
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This original interpretation of the lives and social interactions of Quaker women in the British Atlantic between 1650 and 1750 highlights the unique ways in which adherence to the movement shaped women's lives, as well as the ways in which female Friends transformed seventeenth- and eighteenth-century religious and political culture.
Author: Naomi Pullin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-05-24
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1108247083
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Quaker women were unusually active participants in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century cultural and religious exchange, as ministers, missionaries, authors and spiritual leaders. Drawing upon documentary evidence, with a focus on women's personal writings and correspondence, Naomi Pullin explores the lives and social interactions of Quaker women in the British Atlantic between 1650 and 1750. Through a comparative methodology, focused on Britain and the North American colonies, Pullin examines the experiences of both those women who travelled and preached and those who stayed at home. The book approaches the study of gender and religion from a new perspective by placing women's roles, relationships and identities at the centre of the analysis. It shows how the movement's transition from 'sect to church' enhanced the authority and influence of women within the movement and uncovers the multifaceted ways in which female Friends at all levels were active participants in making and sustaining transatlantic Quakerism.
Author: Hugh S. Barbour
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 1988-11-15
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A survey of the Quaker movement from 1650 to 1987 for those seeking to understand the origins and evolution of the Society of Friends. Part Two provides biographies of those people whose lives and actions particularly shaped American Quakerism.