Quakers in America

Name: Quakers in America
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ISBN: 9780231508933

ISBN-10: 023150893X

ISBN-13: 9780231508933

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Authors: Thomas D. Hamm

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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 children, and how gender and sexuality shape religious belief and behavior. Praised for its rich insight and…

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List price: $31.99
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 12/3/2003
Pages: 304
Language: English

Thomas D. Hamm is archivist for the Friends Collection and professor of history at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. This is his fourth book on Quakerism.



Foreword



Introduction



The Initiates Arthur Koestler Ignazio Silone Richard Wright Worshipers from Afar AndrT Gide



Starkie Louis Fischer