The Quaker World: (Routledge Worlds)

The Quaker World is an outstanding, comprehensive and lively introduction to this complex Christian denomination. Exploring the global reach of the Quaker community, the book begins with a discussion of the living community, as it is now, in all its diversity and complexity. The book covers well-known areas of Quaker development such as the formation of Liberal Quakerism in North America, alongside topics which have received much less scholarly attention in the past, such as the history of Quakers in Bolivia and the spread of Quakerism in Western Kenya. It includes over sixty chapters by a distinguished international and interdisciplinary team of contributors and is organised into three clear parts: Global Quakerism Spirituality Embodiment Within these sections, key themes are examined including: global Quaker activity; significant Quaker movements; biographies of key religious figures; important organisations; pacifism; politics; the abolition of slavery; education; industry; human rights; racism; refugees; gender; disability; sexuality; and environmentalism. The Quaker World provides an authoritative and accessible source of information on all topics important to Quaker studies. As such, it is essential reading for students studying world religions, Christianity and comparative religion, and it will also be of interest to those in related fields such as sociology, political science, anthropology and ethics.

Table of Contents:
Introduction C. Wess Daniels and Rhiannon Grant Part 1: Global Quakerism 1. A History of the Quaker Movement in Africa Robert Wafula 2. Transmission of Quaker Missionary Ideas as a Development of Christianity in Western Kenya, 1902-1907 Sychellus Wabomba Njibwakale 3. A Brief History of Quakers in South Africa Penelope Cummins 4. Quakers in Bolivia Emma Condori Mamani 5. Quakerism in Europe Hans Eirik Aarek 6. Friends World Committee for Consultation in the Section of the Americas Robin Mohr 7. An Overview of the Asia West Pacific Section of Friends World Committee for Consultation Ronis Chapman and Virginia Jealous 8. Nitobe Inazō and Quaker Influences on Japanese Colonialism Isaac May and Richard Barnes 9. Progress Friends and the Formation of Modern American Liberal Quakerism Chuck Fager 10. Stubborn Friends: Quakers and Native Americans in the Long Nineteenth Century Damon B. Akins 11. Evangelical Friends Jennifer Buck 12. Richard Foster Jennifer Buck 13. Movements with Quakerism: Liberalism Isaac May 14. The Life and Thought of Rufus Jones Richard Kent Evans 15. H. Louise Brown Wilson: Exemplary North Carolina Conservative Friend Lloyd Lee Wilson 16. The development of Quaker Institutions Robin Mohr 17. The religious roots of the Quaker way Stuart Masters 18. Quakerism in the Eighteenth Century Andrew Fincham 19. Elizabeth Fletcher: youngest of the Valiant Sixty Barbara Luetke 20. Margaret Fell Kristianna Polder Part 2: Spirituality 21. Early American Quaker Spiritual Autobiography Andrew Pisano 22. Bayard Rustin: the faith of a conscientious objector in the 1940s Carlos Figueroa 23. Thomas Kelly's mystical itinerary as a spiritual orientation for personal spirituality David Pocta 24. Hannah Whitall Smith: nineteenth century freelance Quaker heretic Carole Spencer 25. Loving 'that of God' in others: participatory love and the Quaker way Matt Boswell 26. How far the theological message of liberal British Quakerism has changed over the last fifty years: an analysis of key introductory texts for enquirers Hugh Jones 27. Quaker decision-making meetings through the ages: consistency and variation Judith Roads 28. Quaker decision-making in Burundi David Niyonzima 29. The Work of Equality: Supporting Quaker Women in Ministry Ashley Wilcox 30. William Penn's high Christology: a Christian philosophy of religion(s) Benjamin J. Wood 31. Quaker Pneumatology Christy Randazzo 32. Baptised with the Holy Spirit Emma Condori Mamani 33. Language and Labels in the theism-nontheism debate Stewart Yarlett 34. Worshipping at the Edge of Words Ann Wrightson 35. Testimony as Consequence Pink Dandelion Part 3: Embodiment 36. Networked to freedom, but not my neighbour Krishuna Hines-Gather 37. Sarah Mapps Douglas: An American Saint Abigail Lawrence 38. Quaker Advocacy: from grassroots to the US Congress Diane Randall 39. Bayard Rustin: the political activist life of pragmatic Quaker Carlos Figueroa 40. The Body is Enough: Towards a Liberal Quaker Theology of Disability Benjamin J. Wood 41. Theological Foundations in Disability Issues: Evaluating the African Christian Quaker Experience Oscar Malande 42. Representations of Quakers in television and Film Stephen Brooks 43. Quakers will soon engross the whole trade of the kingdom Michael Dutch 44. John Woolman and the Lenape Jon Kershner 45. A Short History of Quakers Inclusions of Gay and Lesbian People Brian Blackmore 46. Young adult Quakers and epilogue Matt Alton 47. Quaker archival collections in the United States Mary Crauderueff 48. Dismantling White Supremacy in Quaker Archives Mary Crauderueff 49. The radical political and economic vision of James Naylor Stuart Masters 50. George Cadbury: faith in practice Andy Fincham 51. Quaker dress Deb Fuller 52. Modern understandings of plain dress Mackenzie Morgan 53. Capturing the Light: Materializing Past Quaker Lives Christopher Allison 54. Quakers and Other Animals Chris Lord 55. Quakers and marriage Kristianna Polder 56. Paul Cuffe, religious hope, and racial identity Timothy Rainey II 57. Distinctive and Harmless? Quaker nonviolence as a resource for future religiosity Stewart Yarlett 58. British Quakers and the Boer War, 1899-1902 Penelope Cummins 59. Quaker Workcamps Greg Woods 60. The Ramallah Friends Meeting: Examining 100 years of Peace and Justice Work Maia Carter Hallward 61. 'Go anywhere, do anything': the Friends Ambulance Unity 1914-1959 Rebecca Wynter. Index

About the Author :
C. Wess Daniels is the William R. Rogers Director of Friends Center & Quaker Studies at Guilford College, USA. He is the author of Resisting Empire: The Book of Revelation (2019), and A Convergent Model of Renewal: Remixing The Quaker Tradition in Participatory Culture (2015). Rhiannon Grant is Deputy Programme Leader in the Centre for Research in Quaker Studies at Woodbrooke, and also Honorary Senior Lecturer in Modern Quaker Thought at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her most recent books are Theology from Listening: Finding the Core of Liberal Quaker Theological Thought (2020), and Hearing the Light: The core of Quaker theology (2021).