Global Quakerism, 1938-2018.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Angell, Stephen W.

Series:

The New History of Quakerism Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Society of Friends--History.

Society of Friends.

Quakers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2026.

Summary:

Despite the British and Anglo-American origins of Quakerism, the majority of Friends today are persons of color living in the Global South.Reflecting this profound shift, this volume examines the transformation and diversification of Quaker belief, practice, and community across the past century, while situating these developments within.

Contents:

COVER Front

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1 Toward a Postcolonial Revaluation of Liberal Quaker Missions in China

Chapter 2: Missionary Methods of Asian Evangelical Friends

Chapter 3: The Development of a Holistic Approach to Ministry Among Aymara Quakers of Bolivia

Chapter 4: Peace Grounded in Prayer The Case of Women in White in Postcolonial Quakerism in Kenya, 1938-2018

Chapter 5: Quaker Reunification in North America

Chapter 6: "Laying Down Church" The Lasting Impact of Freedom Friends Church

Chapter 7: "Good Will and Mutual Confidence"Some Quakers' Experiments with "Intentional Community

Chapter 8: From Peace Church Pacifists to Friendly Cold Warriors Varieties of the Peace Testimony in the United Statesfrom World War II Through the Vietnam War

Chapter 9: Quakers, Socialism Communism and Anticommunism in the UnitedStates and Britian 1937- 1991

Chapter 10: Representation and Reality Bayard Rustin's Twentieth-CenturyLife

Chapter 11: Quakerism as Transnational Feminist Resistance to Global Capitalism

Chapter 12: Quakers in Monteverde

Chapter 13: A Postmissionary Contextual Analysis of Kenyan Quakerism

Chapter 14: Learning, Borrowing, or Taking from Other Faiths British Quakers and (Mis)appropriation of Religious Language

Chapter 15: British Quakers and the Retreat from EmpireIndia and Palestine

Chapter 16: A Postcolonial Approach to Global Quakerism

Index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Angell, Stephen W. Global Quakerism, 1938-2018

ISBN:

9780271102719

OCLC:

1607920016