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A Sociological Analysis of the Theology of Quakers

Author : Pink Dandelion
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Sociological Analysis of the Theology of Quakers written by Pink Dandelion and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text represents a major sociological investigation into present day Quakerism in Britain. Its main focus is how belief has become individuated within the group and the consequences of this postmodern condition. It is argued that Quakers in Britain have become post-Christian, and that unity and cohesion are provided by adherence to a behavioural creed, that a liberal belief culture operates alongside a conservative and confromist culture. The relationship between these two aspects of the Quaker double-culture is explored, as is the way aspects of the behavioural creed, especially the sacralization of silence, have accommodated and promoted a paradigmatic shift in the nature of Quaker theology in the last 30 years, a silent revolution. The study examines alternative ways in which membership of a group can be constructed, how apparently contradictory sets of values can be accommodated within a single culture, how liberalism can be both promoted and constrained simultaneously and how organizational change can occur without any explicit or common agreement over the nature of change.

The Quaker Condition

Author : Pink Dandelion
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443807168
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book The Quaker Condition written by Pink Dandelion and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses primarily on what we have termed the ‘Quaker Condition’. It looks sociologically at the condition of present-day British Quakerism. This original and innovative collection contributes to several different, though obviously connected, fields within the study of religion. It operates on five levels. In the first place, the volume is the first to represent, substantially, the contribution of social science to the study of Quakerism and therefore provides useful comparative material for those whose focus is on other faith groups. Second , the book focuses largely on British Quakerism and so enriches the pool of resources relating to the sociology of British religion and British culture more generally Third , there are very few sociological volumes dedicated to the analysis of a single faith group. Fourth, the book represents an in-depth study of a liberal faith group, when liberal religion is the focus of much scholarly debate at present particularly with reference to the secularisation thesis. The study of British Quakerism is especially fascinating in this regard, given how the group can be described almost as hyper- or ultra-liberal, prefiguring many of the developments which may overtake currently more conservative groups. Fifth, the volume represents a particularly collective way of working of interest to all those concerned with the methodology of social research, with the design and construction of the volume jointly agreed by all the authors. Regular meetings of the group and a conference based on these chapters has culminated in a book far more interwoven and layered than a typical ‘edited collection.’

A Sociological Analysis of the Theology of Quakers

Author : Ben Pink Dandelion
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book A Sociological Analysis of the Theology of Quakers written by Ben Pink Dandelion and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Quakers in America

Author : Thomas D. Hamm
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231123620
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book The Quakers in America written by Thomas D. Hamm and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Creation of Quaker Theory

Author : Pink Dandelion
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351892150
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book The Creation of Quaker Theory written by Pink Dandelion and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last forty years has witnessed a 'golden age' of Quaker Studies scholarship, with the bulk of this work into the history and sociology of Quakerism being undertaken by scholars who are also Quakers. For the scholars involved, their Quakerism has both prompted their research interests and affected their lives as Quakers. This book presents a unique study into Quakerism: it draws together the key theories of Quaker origins, subsequent history, and contemporary sociology, into a single volume; and it allows each of the contributors the opportunity to reflect on what led to the initial choice of research topic, and how their findings have in turn affected their Quaker lives. The result is a unique contribution to Quaker theory as well to the discussion on insider/outsider research. This book is invaluable to anyone interested in Quakerism, research into religion, notions of outsider objectivity within academia, and areas of theology, religious history and sociology in general.

A Sociological Analysis of the Modern Quaker Movement

Author : Caroline Beatrice Plüss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (536 download)

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Download or read book A Sociological Analysis of the Modern Quaker Movement written by Caroline Beatrice Plüss and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Theology from Listening: Finding the Core of Liberal Quaker Theological Thought

Author : Rhiannon Grant
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004431551
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Book Synopsis Theology from Listening: Finding the Core of Liberal Quaker Theological Thought by : Rhiannon Grant

Download or read book Theology from Listening: Finding the Core of Liberal Quaker Theological Thought written by Rhiannon Grant and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhiannon Grant explores continuities in liberal Quaker theology through close analysis of material produced by Quaker meetings and individuals. She concludes that liberal Quaker theology possesses a core claim: the belief that direct, unmediated contact with the Divine is possible.

The Cultivation of Conformity

Author : Pink Dandelion
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351728873
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book The Cultivation of Conformity written by Pink Dandelion and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the inter-relationship between religious groups and wider society and examines the way religious groups change in relation to societal norms, potentially to the point of undergoing processes of ‘internal secularisation’ within secular and secularist cultures. Received sociological wisdom suggests that over time religious groups moderate their claims. This comes with the potential loss of new adherents, for theorists of secularisation suggest unique or universal, rather than moderate, truth claims appear attractive to would-be recruits. At the same time, religious groups need to appear equivalent, in terms of harmlessness, to state-sanctioned religious expression in order to secure rights. Thus, religious organisations face a perpetual conundrum. Using British Quakers as a case study as they moved from a counter-cultural group to an accepted and accepting part of twentieth- and twenty-first-century society, the author builds on models of religion and non-religion in terms of flows and explores the consequences of religious assimilation when the process of constructing both distinctive appeal and ‘harmlessness’ in pursuit of rights is played out in a secular culture. A major contribution to the sociology of religion, The Cultivation of Conformity presents a new theory of internal secularisation as the ultimate stage of the cultivation of conformity, and a model of the way sects and society inter-relate.

Quaker Studies: An Overview

Author : C. Wess Daniels
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004365079
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Quaker Studies: An Overview written by C. Wess Daniels and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this introductory volume to the Brill Research Perspectives series on Quaker Studies, Quaker Studies, An Overview: The Current State of the Field, C. Wess Daniels, Robynne Rogers Healey, and Jon Kershner investigate Quaker Studies, divided into the three fields of history, theology and philosophy, and sociology. With a focus on schisms, transatlantic networks, colonialism, abolition, gender and equality, and pacifism from Quaker origins onward, Healey explores the rich diversity and complexity of research and interpretation that has emerged in Quaker history. Kershner explores comparisons and divergences in contemporary Quaker theology and philosophy. Special attention is paid to Quaker biblical hermeneutics, mysticism, ethics, epistemology and Global Quakerism. Daniels looks at the sociology of Quakerism as a new field of study that has only recently begun to be explored and developed. He surveys the field of sociological work done within Quakerism from the 1960s to the present day.

Good and Evil

Author : Jackie Leach Scully
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317126076
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Good and Evil written by Jackie Leach Scully and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this multi-disciplinary collection we ask the question, 'What did, and do, Quakers think about good and evil?' There are no simple or straightforwardly uniform answers to this, but in this collection, we draw together contributions that for the first time look at historical and contemporary Quakerdom's approach to the ethical and theological problem of evil and good. Within Quakerism can be found Liberal, Conservative, and Evangelical forms. This book uncovers the complex development of metaethical thought by a religious group that has evolved with an unusual degree of diversity. In doing so, it also points beyond the boundaries of the Religious Society of Friends to engage with the spectrum of thinking in the wider religious world.

Holiness: The Soul of Quakerism

Author : Carole Dale Spencer
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1556358091
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (563 download)

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Download or read book Holiness: The Soul of Quakerism written by Carole Dale Spencer and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No single word conjures up religion, spirituality, or the sacred more than holiness. Yet its meaning in Christian theology, and application in Christian practice, has been greatly misunderstood. Few Quakers today of any persuasion would recognize the mystical depth of meaning the concept had for Quakers down through the centuries. Holiness: The Soul of Quakerism recovers the essential place of holiness theology in three centuries of Quaker history. It explores how Quaker spirituality was shaped in its inception by the experience of union with God, otherwise known in the Christian tradition as perfection, and examines selected figures from Quaker history who represent different emphases of holiness in the context of their time and culture.

Early Quakers and their Theological Thought

Author : Stephen W. Angell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107050529
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Early Quakers and their Theological Thought written by Stephen W. Angell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive theological analysis of leading early Quakers' work, offers fresh insights into what they were really saying.

Quakering Theology

Author : David L. Johns
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317072995
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Quakering Theology written by David L. Johns and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quakers exist neither for themselves nor by themselves alone. Therefore, they ought not to construct Quaker theologies but rather quaker (verb) theology-to add their fingerprints to the larger conversation. David Johns contributes to a Quaker way of thinking theologically but also invites others to think through their denominational identities into a more expansive and ecumenical space. Placing contemporary Quaker thought in conversation with the wider theological tradition, Johns shows that Quakers have something important to contribute to the wider Christian family and he demonstrates how other groups may enter this conversation as well. Some themes explored may not spring immediately to mind as ’Quaker themes’-the saints, C.S. Lewis, sacraments, ritual, and Shakespeare-but Johns argues these are precisely the kind of issues that require Quaker fingerprints-that require quakering.

The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism

Author : Stephen W. Angell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107136601
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism written by Stephen W. Angell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vigorous, innovative, compelling introduction to Quakers, fully global in reach, and utilizing the best Quaker scholars from every continent.

The Liturgies of Quakerism

Author : Pink Dandelion
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351886541
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book The Liturgies of Quakerism written by Pink Dandelion and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Liturgies of Quakerism explores the nature of liturgy within a form of worship based in silence. Tracing the original seventeenth century Quakers' understanding of the 'liturgy of silence', and what for them replaced the outward forms used in other parts of Christianity, this book explains how early Quaker understandings of 'time', 'history', and 'apocalyptic' led to an inward liturgical form. The practices and understanding of twenty-first century Liberal Quakers are explored, showing that these contemporary Quakers maintain the same kind of liturgical form as their ancestors and yet understand it in a very different way. Breaking new ground in the study of Quaker liturgy, this book contrasts the two periods and looks at some of the consequences for the study of liturgy in general, and Quakerism in particular. It also explores evangelical Quaker understandings of liturgy.

The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism

Author : Stephen W. Angell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108547427
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism written by Stephen W. Angell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism offers a fresh, up-to-date, and accessible introduction to Quakerism. Quakerism is founded on radical ideas and its history of constancy and change offers fascinating insights into the nature of non-conformity. In a series of eighteen essays written by an international team of scholars, and commissioned especially for this volume, the Companion covers the history of Quakerism from its origins to the present day. Employing a range of methodologies, it features sections on the history of Quaker faith and practice, expressions of Quaker faith, regional studies, and emerging spiritualities. It also examines all branches of Quakerism, including evangelical, liberal, and conservative, as well as non-theist Quakerism and convergent Quaker thought. This Companion will serve as an essential resource for all interested in Quaker thought and practice.

Alternative Education for the 21st Century

Author : P. Woods
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230618367
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Alternative Education for the 21st Century written by P. Woods and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-01-05 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique collection of leading examples of education grounded in alternative philosophies and cultures – from initiatives to create more democratic schools, through Quaker, Buddhist, Islamic, Montessori and Steiner/Waldorf schools, to Maori and First Nations education in Canada and Palestinian Jewish schools in Israel.