This handbook provides an in-depth survey of historical readings of Quakerism; a treatment of its key theological premises and its links with wider Christian thinking; an analysis of its distinctive ecclesiastical forms and practices; chapters on its social, economic, political, and ethical outcomes; as well as an extensive bibliography.

Stephen Angell is Leatherock Professor of Quaker Studies at the Earlham School of Religion.

Pink Dandelion is Professor of Quaker Studies at the University of Birmingham.

• List of Contributors


• Introduction


• I: History of Quakerism


• 1: Rosemary Moore: Seventeenth Century Context and Quaker Beginnings, 1646-1666


• 2: Richard C. Allen: Restoration Quakerism, 1666-1691


• 3: Robynne Rogers Healey: Quietist Quakerism, 1692-ca. 1805


• 4: Thomas D. Hamm: Hicksite, Orthodox and Evangelical Quakerism, ca. 1805 1887


• 5: J. William Frost: Modernist and Liberal Quakers, 1887-2010


• 6: Gregory P. Hinshaw: Five Years Meeting and Friends United Meeting, 1887 2010


• 7: Arthur O. Roberts: Evangelical Quakers, 1887-2010


• 8: Lloyd Lee Wilson: Conservative Quakers, 1845-2010


• II: Quaker Theology and Spirituality


• 9: Carole Dale Spencer: Quakers in Theological Context


• 10: Stephen W. Angell: God, Christ, and the Light


• 11: Nikki Coffey Tousley: Sin, Convincement, Purity, and Perfection


• 12: Howard R. Macy: Quakers and Scripture


• 13: Douglas Gwyn: Quakers, Eschatology and Time


• 14: Gerard Guiton: The Kingdom of God, Quakers and the Politics of Compassion


• 15: Mary Van Vleck Garman: Quaker Women s Lives and Spiritualities


• 16: Michael Birkel: Leadings and Discernment


• 17: David L. Johns: Worship and Sacraments


• III: Quaker Witness


• 18: Michael Phillip Graves: Ministry and Preaching


• 19: Sylvia Stevens: Travelling Ministry


• 20: Jacalynn Stuckey Welling: Mission


• 21: Janet Scott: Quakers, other churches and other faith


• 22: Emma Lapsansky: Plainness and Simplicity


• 23: Elizabeth Cazden: Quakers, Antislavery and Race


• 24: Lonnie Valentine: Quakers, War, and Peacemaking


• 25: Mike Nellis and Maureen Waugh: Quakers and Penal reform


• 26: Charles L. Cherry: Quakers and Asylum Reform


• 27: Elizabeth Ann O Donnell: Quakers and Education


• 28: Mark Freeman: Quakers, Business and Philanthropy


• 29: Edwina Newman: Quakers and the Family


• 30: Petra L. Doan and Elizabeth P. Kamphausen: Quakers and Sexuality


• 31: Max L. Carter and Simon Best: Quakers, Youth, and Young Adults


• IV: Quaker Expression


• 32: Betty Hagglund: Quakers. Print Culture, and Literature


• 33: Roger Homan: Quakers and Visual Culture


• 34: Jeffrey Dudiak and Laura Rediehs: Quakers, Philosophy and Truth


• 35: Geoffrey Cantor: Quakers and Science


• 36: Jackie Leach Scully: Quakers and Ethics


• 37: Margery Post Abbott: Global Quakerism and the Future of Friends.