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Knight, Thomas Daniel. "“Our Antient Friends … Are Much Reduced”: Mary and James Wright, the Hopewell Friends Meeting, and Quaker Women in the Southern Backcountry, c. 1720–c. 1790." Genealogy 5, no. 3 (2021): 72. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genealogy5030072.

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Although the existence of Quakers in Virginia is well known, the best recent surveys of Virginia history devote only passing attention to them, mostly in the context of expanding religious freedoms during the revolutionary era. Few discuss the Quakers themselves or the nature of Quaker settlements although notably, Warren Hofstra, Larry Gragg, and others have studied aspects of the Backcountry Quaker experience. Recent Quaker historiography has reinterpreted the origins of the Quaker faith and the role of key individuals in the movement, including the roles of Quaker women. Numerous studies ad

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Moore, Rosemary. "Insider and Outsider History: Theories of Quaker Origins from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries." Studies in Church History 49 (2013): 365–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0424208400002230.

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In the words of a modern Quaker historian, ‘Friends are an historical people, and we derive much of our identity from our tradition’. During the past hundred and fifty years the history of Quaker beginnings has several times been reinterpreted, as different Quaker theologies have risen to prominence and been given historical underpinning, and the interpretations themselves then subjected to historiographical reflections by later scholars. Much of this process has been ‘insider’ history, written by Quakers, but in the second half of the twentieth century Quaker beginnings became for a time a pr

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Pullin, Naomi. "Motherhood and Domestic Authority in British and Colonial Quakerism, c.1650–1775." Journal of Early Modern History 28, no. 1-2 (2024): 118–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700658-bja10079.

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Abstract This article explores how women, as mothers, acquired international influence within British and North American Quakerism between 1650 and 1775. It has been well established that Quakerism disrupted traditional domestic hierarchies, but less is known about the ways in which maternity provided agency for female Quakers in their everyday lives. This article focuses on the labors and experiences of women who did not undertake transatlantic travel, whose lives were primarily centered around raising their children and supporting the Quaker community. It shows how the evolving Religious Soc

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Kennedy, Maria. "Irish Quaker Identities: Complex Identity in the Religious Society of Friends." Brill Research Perspectives in Quaker Studies 2, no. 2 (2019): 1–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2542498x-12340010.

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Abstract This work is a sociological study of Quakers, which investigates the impact that sectarianism has had on identity construction within the Religious Society of Friends in Ireland. The research highlights individual Friends’ complex and hybrid cultural, national and theological identities, mirrored by the Society’s corporate identity. This publication focuses specifically on examples of political and theological hybridity. These hybrid identities resulted in tensions that impact on relationships between Friends and the wider organisation. How Friends negotiate and accommodate these dive

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Ward, Madeleine. "The Christian Quaker: George Keith and the Keithian Controversy." Brill Research Perspectives in Quaker Studies 2, no. 1 (2019): 1–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2542498x-12340009.

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Abstract How did the early Quakers understand the relationship between Quakerism and Christianity? Did they think faith in Jesus was necessary? What did they mean by the ‘Light within’? These were the central issues in the Keithian controversy: an explosive schism which broke out among Philadelphian Quakers in the 1690s when George Keith – arguably the most influential Quaker theologian of the seventeenth century – was accused of focusing too heavily on the Incarnate Jesus in his preaching. Keith left the movement under a cloud, and the Keithian controversy has often been explained away in ter

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Greaves, Richard L. "Shattered Expectations? George Fox, the Quakers, and the Restoration State, 1660-1685." Albion 24, no. 2 (1992): 237–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4050812.

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The prevailing view of Quakers in the Restoration era depicts them as a defeated movement no longer on the attack but henceforth under siege. They institutionalized, in the words of Richard Bauman, a strategy “of disengagement from the world's affairs” and embraced “a social policy founded on quietism.” Defeated politically, they were forced, according to this view, to relinquish their efforts to advance the cause of liberty “by militant, political means.” Thus the adoption of the peace principle as a hallmark of the Society of Friends emerged, according to Barry Reay, as a response to politic

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Plank, Geoffrey. "Discipline and Divinity: Colonial Quakerism, Christianity, and “Heathenism” in the Seventeenth Century." Church History 85, no. 3 (2016): 502–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009640716000457.

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Quakers began arriving in the Caribbean and North America when their religious society was still new and struggling to define its core beliefs and institutional structure. There were tensions within the Society of Friends stemming from the Quakers’ validation of individual inspiration and their communal commitment to the Christian message as contained in the Bible. A bitter debate over scriptural authority wracked Quaker meetings for the remainder of the seventeenth century, and the controversy included arguments over the Quakers’ relations with Native Americans, Africans, and others outside o

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Bouldin, Elizabeth. ""That Dreadful Distemper": Smallpox, Quakers, and Inoculation in Enlightenment Britain." Huntington Library Quarterly 85, no. 3 (2022): 497–516. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hlq.2022.a903740.

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abstract: Quakers were early adopters and promoters of inoculation, but the procedure became a contested issue among Friends. This study analyzes eighteenth-century Quaker writings on inoculation, which emphasized both human reason and divine revelation. Highlighting the diversity of ideas about the meaning of smallpox and the value of inoculation, the essay demonstrates how debates over inoculation drew Quakers into broader discourses surrounding religion, disease, and medicine in Enlightenment Britain.

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Russ, Mark Daniel. "Quaker Eschatology in Britain through the Lens of Narrative." Quaker Studies 25, no. 2 (2020): 207–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/quaker.2020.25.2.6.

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To supplement Pink Dandelion’s eschatological framing of Quaker history, this study offers the theatrum mundi as a metaphor that makes explicit the narrative nature of eschatology. This metaphor is used to chart Quaker eschatology in Britain from its beginnings to the present, showing that, while Quaker ecclesiology has remained relatively consistent, the underlying eschatology has changed significantly. Successive generations of Quakers have continued to inhabit the liturgical ‘empty stage’ of the First Friends, while the shared theological ‘script’ has been altered and eventually abandoned.

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Pullin, Naomi. "Sustaining “the Household of Faith”: Female Hospitality in the Early Transatlantic Quaker Community." Journal of Early Modern History 22, no. 1-2 (2018): 96–119. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700658-17-00012.

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Abstract Women occupied a central place in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century transatlantic Quakerism. They acted as prophets, missionaries, authors and spiritual leaders of their communities. Recent scholarship has offered important insights into the unparalleled public roles available to women within the early Quaker community. But little is known about the networks of hospitality that developed across the British Atlantic that made itinerant missionary service possible. The generosity of countless female Quakers to unknown “Friends” remains an underexplored aspect of early Quaker history.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Friends (Quakers)"

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Allen, Richard C. "The Society of Friends in Wales : the case of Monmouthshire, c.1654-1836." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.326520.

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Cooper, Benjamin. ""We leave every reader to draw his own inferences" or, language and the construction of community in the Quaker journal The Friend /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/769.

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Tonsing, Betty Kathryn. "The Quakers in South Africa a social witness." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002417.

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The Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers, began their witness in the 1600s during a time of religious debate when competing doctrines reflected the political, social and intellectual turmoil of seventeenth-century England. George Fox (1624-1691), the founder, preached that people are guided by God's inner light which is present in the hearts and conscience of all people and reflects God's 'divine' will. The Quakers form a small religious membership not larger than 200,000 people sect, its world-wide. Yet, historically, the group's impact on social issues has always outweighed its numerical

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Holmes, Rose. "A moral business : British Quaker work with refugees from fascism, 1933-39." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2015. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/54158/.

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This thesis details the previously under-acknowledged work of British Quakers with refugees from fascism in the period leading up to the Second World War. This work can be characterised as distinctly Quaker in origin, complex in organisation and grassroots in implementation. The first chapter establishes how interwar British Quakers were able to mobilise existing networks and values of humanitarian intervention to respond rapidly to the European humanitarian crisis presented by fascism. The Spanish Civil War saw the lines between legal social work and illegal resistance become blurred, forcing

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Kennedy, Maria Helen. "The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Ireland : sectarianism and identity." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2016. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/6843/.

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This thesis is a sociological study of Quakers in Ireland that investigates the impact that sectarianism has had on identity construction within the Religious Society of Friends. My research highlights the complex identities of individual Friends in respect of culture, national identities and theology – mirrored by the Society’s corporate identity. Jennifer Todd’s work on sectarianism and oppositional identities in Ireland provides part of the theoretical framework for this thesis. An identity matrix formulated from interview data is used to illustrate how different identities overlap and rela

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Haagen, Christopher. "Rebuilding the Quaker church Henry Hodgkin and the Progressive Quaker Missionary Movement of the 19th century /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/1008.

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Kline, Douglas A. "The cultural constuction of conflict and conflict mangement among Quakers." Virtual Press, 1996. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1027120.

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This thesis explores conflict and its management among Quakers by probing deeply the dynamics of cultural and social change. This interpretation is based on three months of participant observation, semi-structured interview with informants, and a brief literature review of Quaker literature regarding conflict management. Conflict was examined by revising the model employed by Clifford Geertz to study social change. The model uses the concepts of social structure, culture and self to identify potential areas of conflict among Quakers. Four constructions are identified. The first, 'The Principle

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Zhang, Candace Irene Rodman. "Language use in two Indiana Monthly Meetings of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) : a comparative ethnography of speaking." Virtual Press, 1997. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1115717.

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The present study looks at language use in the worship of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), especially that of two Indiana Monthly Meetings, one programmed and one unprogrammed, located within thirty miles of one another. This study discusses the juncture of language and religion studies, or theolinguistics. The study looks at the Meeting for Worship comprehensively in both settings as a performative event, i.e. at what constitutes error as well as good performance, and the written and unwritten rules for participation therein.A comparative ethnography was done on the two Monthly Mee

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Burdick, Tim. "Neo-evangelical identity within American Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) : Oregon early Meeting, 1919-1947." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2013. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/4152/.

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This thesis is an historical case-study using archival written data to analyse the formation of a neo-evangelical identity within Oregon Yearly Meeting (OYM) of the Religious Society of Friends, with emphasis on the years 1919-1947. The argument of this thesis is that by 1919 there were fundamentalist thinking patterns developing within the corporate religious identity of the Yearly Meeting (YM) marked by ecumenical separatism, world-rejecting views, biblical literalism and decreasing social action. The values of this fundamentalist identity became dominant by 1926, pervading the mindset of th

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Thompson, Kari Elizabeth Rose. "Inconsistent friends: Philadelphia Quakers and the development of Native American missions in the long eighteenth century." Diss., University of Iowa, 2013. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2645.

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With theology grounded in beliefs of human equality and religious toleration, early Quakers discussed religious ideas with Native Americans, but did not conduct the kinds of missionary projects common to other English Protestants in America in their first century there. Instead, they focused on creating good relationships with the native people who lived in the area that became Pennsylvania, as well as with those beyond its borders. Despite this rhetoric, Quakers were inconsistent in enacting their own ideals. After allowi

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Books on the topic "Friends (Quakers)"

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IJspeert, Marianne. De Quakers. Kok, 2006.

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Pearce, John. Quakers in medicine: "friends of the truth". William Sessions Ltd., 2009.

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John, Pearce. Quakers in medicine: "friends of the truth". William Sessions Ltd., 2009.

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Dundon, Priscilla W. Friends forever. Weekly Reader Books, 1985.

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Powelson, John P. The Quaker economist: Global issues of concern to Quakers. Horizon Society Publications, 2002.

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Friends, Society of. Quakers around the world: Handbook of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Friends World Committee for Consultation, 1994.

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Harimann, Sierra. Best friends. Scholastic, 2012.

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name, No. Historical dictionary of the Friends (Quakers). Scarecrow Press, 2003.

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Allen, J. Timothy. North Carolina Quakers: Spring Friends Meeting. Arcadia Pub., 2011.

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Abbott, Margery Post. Historical dictionary of the Friends (Quakers). 2nd ed. Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2011.

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Book chapters on the topic "Friends (Quakers)"

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Wilson, Liz, Michael Nichols, and Peter W. Williams. "Christianity: Quakers (Friends)." In Understanding Your Students' Religions. Routledge, 2025. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003405894-21.

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Schmid, Evelyne, and Lawrence S. Cumming. "Quakers (Religious Society of Friends)." In International Encyclopedia of Civil Society. Springer US, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-93996-4_446.

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Kozel, Sue. "Thomas Jefferson’s Complicated Friends." In Quakers, Business and Corporate Responsibility. Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04034-5_9.

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Romirowsky, Asaf, and Alexander H. Joffe. "The Quakers and the American Friends Service Committee: Origins of the Quakers and Quaker Ideology." In Religion, Politics, and the Origins of Palestine Refugee Relief. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137378170_3.

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Landes, Jordan. "Communicating Religion with Friends ‘Beyond the Seas’." In London Quakers in the Trans-Atlantic World. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137366689_3.

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Landes, Jordan. "Communicating Politics with Friends ‘Beyond the Seas’." In London Quakers in the Trans-Atlantic World. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137366689_4.

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Kirchhelle, Claas. "Becoming an Activist: Ruth Harrison’s Turn to Animal Welfare." In Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62792-8_3.

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AbstractThis chapter focuses on Harrison’s life prior to writing Animal Machines. Together with her siblings, Harrison was brought up in close contact to Britain’s cultural elite. After attending schools in London, Harrison commenced her university studies in 1939. The outbreak of war had a transformative impact on her life. Harrison was evacuated to Cambridge where she likely came into contact with ethologist William Homan Thorpe. She converted to Quakerism and subsequently enrolled in the Friends’ Ambulance Unit. The Quaker principles of non-violence, humanitarianism, and bearing witness to

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Fager, Chuck. "Progressive Friends." In The Quaker World. Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429030925-11.

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Buck, Jennifer M. "Evangelical Friends." In The Quaker World. Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429030925-13.

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Akins, Damon B. "Stubborn Friends." In The Quaker World. Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429030925-12.

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