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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Quakers"”.
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Milton and the Quakers
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The Quakers of County Tipperary 1655-1924
… has stated that 'the rise of the people called Quakers is one of the memorable events in the history of man'. However extravagant this claim, Voltaire, to whom religion meant leading a good and useful life, observed of the Quakers 'the doctrines and history of such unusual people were worthy of …
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Early American Quakers and the transatlantic community, 1700-1756
The purpose of this dissertation is to reexamine the relationship between the American and English members of the transatlantic Quaker community during the first fifty-six years of the eighteenth century. The pursuit of unity dominated that relationship.
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The community of intimacy: The spiritual beliefs and religious practices of adolescent quakers
… study of the current generation of adolescent Quakers. It examines and analyses their beliefs and values; individual and group practice and how the group functions. The research demonstrates that for the adolescent Quaker group belief is unimportant and non-definitional; values are broad and …
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Tolerance and toleration: the experience of the Quakers in East Yorkshire c.1660-1699
[From the introduction]:This thesis examines the practice of tolerance and 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 …
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Settling and Laying Down: A Cultural History of Quakers in Savannah and Statesboro, Georgia
This descriptive cultural history follows a hybrid methodology often applied to ethno-histories. This approach combines archival research, oral history, and ethnography, with reflexive aspects. I explore some similarities and differences between two Quaker meetings in Southeast Georgia, the small …
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The temporal collage: how British Quakers make choices about time at the beginning of the twenty first century
… conflicting demands for time. It uses British Quakers as a case study. From the mid-twentieth century to 2008 the nature of work and family life have changed considerably, and this thesis shows how British Quakers balance those worldly changes in order to remain faithful and involved with the …
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Christian belief in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers): a response to the claim that British Friends are post-Christian
… an extensive sociological survey of British Quakers. In his thesis Dandelion claimed that the Religious Society of Friends in Britain had become post-Christian. In response to Dandelion’s claim that Quakers are post-Christian, in 2005 and 2006 I conducted a short survey of the same …
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From revelation to resource: the natural world in the thought and experience of Quakers in Britain and Ireland, 1647-1830
… and intellectual lives of British and Irish Quakers (Friends) from the earliest 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, …
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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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The Society of Friends in Indiana during the Civil War
… of the activities of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, in Indiana during the American Civil War. It is also an attempt to undo a myth that has persisted among many historians for over one hundred years. The Friends' adherence to the belief that all wars were unlawful in the eyes of God has …
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Funding the centrally managed work of Britain Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
… when the perceived importance of the work led Quakers to lose the balance between caution and ‘living adventurously’. Soaring expenditure, unmatched by similar increase in contribution income, forced a move to budgetary planning, based on a balanced budget and maintenance of a prudent level of …
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British Quaker women and peace, 1880s to 1920s
… the most radical socialists, and feminists among Quakers remained as a Quaker. British Quakers were divided on peace issues but those who disagreed with the general Quaker approach resigned and were not disowned; the case of Isabel Fry is a good example of this. This thesis argues that the …
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The struggle for orthodoxy: Religion, revivals, and Anglo-American relations in the British northern colonies
… colonies which included groups such as the Quakers and Pietists. The implicit affinity for emotionalism among these dissenters is highlighted, even though many of them would have been quick to condemn anything perceived as extreme emotionalism or ""enthusiasm."""
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Radical Quakerism: a political anthropology of postmodern religion
… in the Religious Society of Friends (‘Quakers’), it carefully examines the social and political practices that constitute the ‘postmodern’ religious subject. Drawing on poststructuralist theory, the research combines critical ethnography with discourse-theoretical analysis. It is framed …
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Self and Other in the theology of Robert Barclay
… or foreign factor by the present Liberal Quakers’ self-affirmative theology. The second is 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 …
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Brynmawr experiment 1928-1940 : Quaker values and arts and crafts principles
This is a study of the social work of Quakers in the town of Brynmawr in South Wales during the depressions of the 1920s and 1930s. The work, which took place during the years 1928 to 1940, has become known as the Brynmawr Experiment. The initial provision of practical and financial relief for a …
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Reviving His Work: Social Isolation, Religious Fervor and Reform in the Burned Over District of Western New York, 1790-1860
… In this way, rural evangelicals, as well as Quakers and Spiritualists, engaged in moral reform, to eradicate institutions and behaviors they perceived as sinful from society.
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The Women of Waterford, Virginia: Gender, Unionism, Quakerism and Identity in the American Civil War
… that they held. The women of Waterford were Quakers, female, southern, unionist and editors/producers of a newspaper. The community of Waterford, Virginia was placed in the margins of Southern society because of the cultural differences rooted in their Quaker faith. The Civil War created a …
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Strangers, foreigners, and fellow citizens: Case studies of English missions to the Indians in colonial New England and the Middle Colonies, 1642-1755
… Congregationalists, Presbyterians, Baptists, and Quakers worked to save native souls. Working from an ""Indian viewpoint,"" some historians of these missions have concluded that these English missionaries were racist, and that they worked in concert with other colonists to convert the natives and …
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