Author: David Yount
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: america, invented, quakers
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2007-06-28
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0742558339
ISBN-13: 9780742558335

This book shows how the Quakers shaped the basic distinctive features of American life from the days of the founders and the colonies through the revolution and up to the civil rights movement. It also points out how Quaker values like freedom, equality, straightforwardness, and spirituality can be seen in modern day peace advocates.

Author: William Wistar Comfort
Publisher: Thackeray Press
Keywords: world, modern, quakers
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $28.45
ISBN-10: 1406747882
ISBN-13: 9781406747881

QUAKERS IN THE MODERN WORLD Quakers IN THE MODERN WORLD By William Wistar Comfort President Emeritus of Haverford College THE MACMILLAN COMPANY New York 1949 Copyright, 1949, by William W. Comfort All rights reserved no part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review written for inclusion in magazine or newspaper. FIRST PRINTING Printed in the United States of America Foreword MY DEAR FRIEND Like others of my acquaintance, you have from time to time asked me que

Author: Dobson
Publisher: Clearfield
Keywords: america, quakers, scottish
Number of Pages: 58
Published: 2009-06-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0806347651
ISBN-13: 9780806347653

Mr. Dobson continues with his series of booklets pertaining to unexplored aspects of Scottish genealogy. The first of these new titles is his Scottish Quakers and Early America, the aim of which is to identify members of the Society of Friends in Scotland prior to 1700 and the Scottish origins of many of the Quakers who settled in East Jersey in the 1680s. Quakerism came to Scotland with the Cromwellian occupation of the 1650s. Scottish missionaries eventually spread the faith to various locations throughout the country, including Aberdeen in the Northeast, Edinburgh and Kelso in the s

Author: Thomas D. Hamm
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: religion, series, american, contemporary, america, columbia, quakers
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2006-08-25
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 0231123639
ISBN-13: 9780231123631

The Quakers in America is a multifaceted history of the Religious Society of Friends and a fascinating study of its culture and controversies today. Lively vignettes of Conservative, Evangelical, Friends General Conference, and Friends United meetings illuminate basic Quaker theology and reflect the group’s diversity while also highlighting the fundamental unity within the religion. Quaker culture encompasses a rich tradition of practice even as believers continue to debate whether Quakerism is necessarily Christian, where religious authority should reside, how one transmits faith to chi

Authors:David McFadden, Claire Gorfinkel, Sergei Nikitin,
Publisher: Intentional Productions
Keywords: russia, revolutionary, quakers, spirit, constructive
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2004-03
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0964804255
ISBN-13: 9780964804258

In the chaotic aftermath of WWI, six American Quaker women went to Russia to help refugees fleeing from Poland. The Quakers stayed on through famine and the early years of the Bolshevik revolution, negotiating uniqe agreements with the American and Soviet governments, providing innovative relief and reconstruction programs while witnessing to their religious convictions. Constructive Spirit includes their dramatic first-hand narratives. It examines American responses to the emerging communist nation, and issues of service, advocacy and witness that are still relevant today. 232 pag

Author: Margaret E. Hirst
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: peace, practice, principles, war, quakers, account
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 2008-06-13
List price: $57.95
ISBN-10: 1436673461
ISBN-13: 9781436673464

Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

Author: Pink Dandelion
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: short, introductions, introduction, quakers
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2008-03-20
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0199206791
ISBN-13: 9780199206797

Here is the perfect introductory guide to the history and ideas of the Quakers, one of the world’s most fascinating and enigmatic religious groups. Emerging in England in the 1650s as a radical sect challenging the status quo, the Quakers are now best known for their anti-slavery activities, their principled stance against war, and their pioneering work in penal reform. Famous Quakers include Thomas Paine, Walt Whitman, Lucretia Mott, Herbert Hoover, James Dean, Judi Dench, and A.S. Byatt. And while the group still maintains a distinctive worship method to achieve a direct encounter wit