• 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.

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.