The Creation of Modern Quaker Diversity, 1830–1937

“This volume and series deserve to attract readers from inside and outside the denomination who will embrace this collection as an intrinsically diverse replacement for single-author magisterial histories.”—Jennifer Rycenga, Reading Religion

“The Creation of Modern Quaker Diversity, 1830-1937 is the authoritative assessment of global Quakerism from 1830 to 1937. It makes extensive use of multiple genres of primary sources and has left no stone unturned in finding a diverse range of voices to include. While other books have dealt with individual topics, this volume provides in one place an examination of the period.”—Jon R. Kershner, author of John Woolman and the Government of Christ: A Colonial Quaker's Vision for the British Atlantic World

“This collection of essays represents the most significant scholarship on modern Quakerism produced to date. It will be the go-to source for all future students and scholars working on Quakerism during the key period of its modernization.”—Matthew S. Hedstrom, author of The Rise of Liberal Religion: Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth Century

Stephen W. Angell is Leatherock Professor of Quakerism at the Earlham School of Religion.

Pink Dandelion directs the work of the Centre for Research in Quaker Studies at Woodbrooke and is Professor of Quaker Studies at the University of Birmingham and a Research Fellow at Lancaster University.

David Harrington Watt is Dorothy and Douglas Steere Professor of Quaker Studies at Haverford College.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Remapping of Quakerism, 1830–1937

Pink Dandelion

1. Quakers and Empire

Sylvester A. Johnson and Stephen W. Angell

2. Quakers and Reform in Nineteenth-Century America: Friends’ Response to Antislavery, Women’s Rights, and the American Civil War

Julie L. Holcomb

3. The Loss of Peculiarity and the New Quaker Identity: The Outward and the Inward Life

Emma Jones Lapsansky

4. The Revival, 1860–1880

Thomas D. Hamm

5. Quakers and the Growth of the Pastoral System

Isaac Barnes May

6. Quakers and “Religious Madness”

Richard Kent Evans

7. Quakers of the Liberal Renaissance, 1870–1930: Rediscovering the Light Within

Joanna Clare Dales

8. The Delineation of Quaker Spiritualities

Carole Dale Spencer

9. Quakers and the Social Order, 1830–1937

Nicola Sleapwood and Thomas D. Hamm

10. Quakers and Missions, 1861–1937

Stephen W. Angell

11. The Peace Testimony and the Crisis of World War I

Robynne Rogers Healey

12. Quakers in Politics

Stephanie Midori Komashin and Randall L. Taylor

13. The All-Friends Conferences and Their Effects

Douglas Gwyn

Afterword: Rufus Jones and Quaker History

David Harrington Watt

Notes

Selected Bibliography

List of Contributors

Index

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