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These two books form part of the seven-volume Rowntree History Series. Jones added to the series two volumes on Later Periods of Quakerism. [6] In 1955 Frederick James Smithen stated that The Beginnings of Quakerism was "still regarded as the standard work on the rise and early fortunes of the Quaker movement". [7]
[40] [41] Their books were burned, and most of their property confiscated. [40] Quaker Mary Dyer led to execution on Boston Common, 1 June 1660. In 1660, English Quaker Mary Dyer was hanged near [42] Boston Common for repeatedly defying a Puritan law banning Quakers from the colony. [43] She was one of the four executed Quakers known as the ...
Britain Yearly Meeting's current book of discipline is called Quaker Faith and Practice: The book of Christian discipline of the Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain. The text of the first edition was originally approved by the Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends in Britain in 1994, and it has ...
The Quaker Family in Colonial America: A Portrait of the Society of Friends (1973), emphasis on social structure and family life. Frost, J. William. "The Origins of the Quaker Crusade against Slavery: A Review of Recent Literature," Quaker History 67 (1978): 42–58. JSTOR 41946850. Hamm, Thomas. The Quakers in America.
Quakers were at the center of the movement to abolish slavery in the early United States; it is no coincidence that Pennsylvania, center of American Quakerism, was the first state to abolish slavery. In the antebellum period, "Quaker meeting houses [in Philadelphia] ...had sheltered abolitionists for generations." [2]: 1
A second edition appeared in 2016: Holy Silence: The Gift of Quaker Spirituality, 2nd Edition ISBN 978-0-8028-7403-0 [4] In a review of the second edition, the Presbyterian Outlook noted that "the Quakers are onto something" when it comes to silence. [5] The Catholic Library World recommended the book for readers open to that "still, small ...
Thomas Raymond Kelly (June 4, 1893 – January 17, 1941) was an American Quaker educator. He taught and wrote on the subject of mysticism. His books are widely read, especially by people interested in spirituality. Kelly was born in 1893 in Chillicothe, Ohio, to a Quaker family (members of
Its mission is "to communicate Quaker experience in order to connect and deepen spiritual lives." [8] The magazine is a founding member of Quakers Uniting in Publications. [9] It publishes poetry, news about Quaker affairs, letters, information about Quaker meetings, and book reviews. [10] The journal’s archives were digitized around 2012. [11]