Description
Book SynopsisA collection of essays examining the history of Quakerism from 1830 to 1937, tracing the resurgence of missionary work and the development of Quakerism as a global faith.
Trade Review“The Creation of Modern Quaker Diversity, 1830-1937 is the authoritative assessment of global Quakerism from 1830 to 1937. It makes extensive use of multiple genres of primary sources and has left no stone unturned in finding a diverse range of voices to include. While other books have dealt with individual topics, this volume provides in one place an examination of the period.”
—Jon R. Kershner,author of John Woolman and the Government of Christ: A Colonial Quaker's Vision for the British Atlantic World
“This collection of essays represents the most significant scholarship on modern Quakerism produced to date. It will be the go-to source for all future students and scholars working on Quakerism during the key period of its modernization.”
—Matthew S. Hedstrom,author of The Rise of Liberal Religion: Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth Century
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: The Remapping of Quakerism, 1830–1937
Pink Dandelion
1. Quakers and Empire
Sylvester A. Johnson and Stephen W. Angell
2. Quakers and Reform in Nineteenth-Century America: Friends’ Response to Antislavery, Women’s Rights, and the American Civil War
Julie L. Holcomb
3. The Loss of Peculiarity and the New Quaker Identity: The Outward and the Inward Life
Emma Jones Lapsansky
4. The Revival, 1860–1880
Thomas D. Hamm
5. Quakers and the Growth of the Pastoral System
Isaac Barnes May
6. Quakers and “Religious Madness”
Richard Kent Evans
7. Quakers of the Liberal Renaissance, 1870–1930: Rediscovering the Light Within
Joanna Clare Dales
8. The Delineation of Quaker Spiritualities
Carole Dale Spencer
9. Quakers and the Social Order, 1830–1937
Nicola Sleapwood and Thomas D. Hamm
10. Quakers and Missions, 1861–1937
Stephen W. Angell
11. The Peace Testimony and the Crisis of World War I
Robynne Rogers Healey
12. Quakers in Politics
Stephanie Midori Komashin and Randall L. Taylor
13. The All-Friends Conferences and Their Effects
Douglas Gwyn
Afterword: Rufus Jones and Quaker History
David Harrington Watt
Notes
Selected Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
