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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Quakerism"”.
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Radical Quakerism: a political anthropology of postmodern religion
… be called a ‘political spirituality’. Radical Quakerism emerges as a particular form of political dissent practiced as an ethics of self dis-enclosure. It entails a spiritual self-discipline that resists closure, refuses power and subverts the threat of conflict. Conditioned by contingency, its …
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The Rowntree History Series and the growth of liberal Quakerism: 1895-1925
This dissertation explores how some leading Quakers in the period 1895-1925 promoted liberal views within the Religious Society of Friends in Britain and the U.S.A. It focuses on the use of denominational history as a medium through which to transmit these ideas, in particular on the Rowntree …
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Quakerism and approaches to mental affliction: a comparative study of George Fox and William Tuke
… social roles but shared a commitment to Quakerism. Both were laymen, working outside the parameters of established medical practices and saw insanity as a condition of the soul. Their reflections on their faith in conjunction with accounts of their healing reveal how they perceived …
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The Women of Waterford, Virginia: Gender, Unionism, Quakerism and Identity in the American Civil War
Over the course of the Civil War the small community of Waterford, Virginia maintained Unionist sentiments regardless of being a part of the Confederate States of America. These sentiments were rooted in loyalty to the United States, their ostracization from southern culture, and their Quaker …
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British Quaker women and peace, 1880s to 1920s
… thesis investigates the characteristics of their Quakerism, pacifism and wider political and personal life, as well as the connections between them. In contrast to O’Donnell’s view that most radical Victorian Quaker women left Quakerism to follow their political pursuits with like-minded friends …
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Self and Other in the theology of Robert Barclay
… to explore another possibility of understanding Quakerism and its practical applications in pacifism, from a different viewpoint than the empirical, individualistic one today. The whole research is conducted by using the concept of self as the central axis for analysis. By analysing Barclay’s …
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Tolerance and toleration: the experience of the Quakers in East Yorkshire c.1660-1699
… intolerance that surrounded the development of Quakerism in the East Riding of Yorkshire in the mid seventeenth century. It is important to offer a distinction between the terms tolerance and toleration, which are used in the title of the work. Tolerance refers to the informal and unofficial …
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David Willson (1778-1866): Canadian Visionary Writer And Hymnodist
… Boehme's mysticism on George Fox, the founder of Quakerism, and from Fox to Willson, through Willson's membership in the Society of Friends. The thesis examines Quakerism contemporary with Willson to account further for the genesis of some of Willson's theological and social precepts. To establish …
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Edward Cadbury – Paternalistic employer or Quaker-inspired pathfinder of British industrial relations pluralism and women workers’ champion?
… takes issue with the idea that the influence of Quakerism had little to do with the workplace system that emerged in the Cadbury company. Included will be important contextual background information covering details of what was happening in the world of Quakerism during this period, as well as …
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From revelation to resource: the natural world in the thought and experience of Quakers in Britain and Ireland, 1647-1830
… evidence in 1647 up to the rise of evangelical Quakerism around 1830. Whilst Quakers agreed that God had made and continued to uphold the creation, responses to the natural world were, after the Restoration, essentially individualistic, giving rise to diverse views of its place in theology. …
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Freedom Through Books: Helen Haines and Her Role in the Library Press, Library Education, and the Intellectual Freedom Movement
… Brooklyn, which was influenced by her father's Quakerism and her mother's home schooling, Haines became a staunch advocate of books as a means to opportunity, equality, and freedom. This belief was strengthened by experience in the book trade under her first employer, Richard Rogers Bowker, and …
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Blasphemy in England, c.1660-1730
… blasphemy; then chapters on antitrinitarianism, Quakerism, and the denial of Christ's miracles investigate representations of speculative blasphemy. I argue throughout that contemporary representations of blasphemy were commensurate with the theological conception of blasphemy as aggravated …
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The making of a historical consciousness in Henry County, Indiana: a case study of the Henry County Historical Society, 1887-1950
… American Centennial in 1876, industrialization, Quakerism, the popularity of Civil War history and commemoration in Indiana that peaked around 1900, and a state historical movement and the simultaneous development of other historical organizations following the Indiana Centennial in 1916 were …
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's attitudes toward organized Christianity.
… third chapter deals with his attitudes toward Quakerism and Shakerism, minor sects to which Hawthorne responded in a few of his writings. Quite late in life Hawthorne came into close contact with Catholicism, and thus his attitudes toward it are treated in the final chapter of this study. …
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Quaker Education in Ireland 1680 - 1840
… of the nineteenth. I have begun by placing Quakerism in its historical context, and have examined briefly the origins of the movement in England and Ireland, with reference to the political, social and religious factors which gave rise to its development.In the early chapters of this study I …
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Brynmawr experiment 1928-1940 : Quaker values and arts and crafts principles
… links between the moral and aesthetic values of Quakerism and the Arts and Crafts Movement and explores the extent to which the guiding principles of the social witness project and the furniture making enterprise resemble those of the Arts and Crafts Movement of the inter-war years, 1919-1939. …
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Christian belief in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers): a response to the claim that British Friends are post-Christian
… and consider the importance of ‘Truth’ to Quakerism. Finally, I point to other areas of further research before giving my overall conclusions.
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George Fox's concept of the church
… century England. Literature in the field o early Quakerism, extensive and varied though it is, has neglected formulation of Fox's views on the basis of such a dominant ideal. The present study is based primarily upon the printed, collection of Fox's works. During the Interregnum, England struggled …