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Nearly every entry is concise and accurate...especially handy for the non-specialist...a welcome addition to Friends' resources. Quaker Monthly An excellent starting point for anyone interested in the Religious Society of Friends...High school and university libraries should consider this volume for their reference collections. Arba Every monthly meeting should have a copy of this dictionary in its library. An invaluable reference guide, it provides a comprehensive view of the history of the Quaker movement, its present status and its future prospects. It goes beyond the usual reference guide because those who are not only knowledgeable about Quakers but also personally involved edited it...an indispensable asset for anyone interested in Quakers, their history and beliefs. Quaker Life ...the entries are both brief and informative, and the work successfully captures the worldwide scope of the Friends movement...The choice of entries and the breadth of information available in approximately 400 pages make this a most worthy investment for both the personal and public library. Reviews In Religion and Theology This book will be eagerly received by Friends as a useful one-stop source for ready information about the Quaker movement in all its complexity. While other valuable ready references exist...none attempts to cover the same range of topics. There is much useful to this book, and we can be grateful to the editors and the many contributors of individual articles for their work. Meeting libraries that have a good basic Quaker collection will do well to have this available. Friends Journal

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Margery Post Abbott is a Released Friend who writes about Quakerism and travels in the ministry with the support of her Monthly Meeting. Her book, A Certain Kind of Perfection, brings together the writings of evangelical and liberal Quakers from North America, Europe, and Australia. She has published numerous articles and pamphlets about Friends and lectured in America and England. Mary Ellen Chijioke is Director of the Hege Library at Guilford College in North Carolina and has served as curator of the Friends Historical Library at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, the academic center of Hicksite Quakerism. For many years she wrote the biennial review of recent literature for the journal Quaker History and is currently co-editing Willis R. Hotchkiss's diary. Pink Dandelion is Tutor in Postgraduate Quaker Studies at Woodbrooke College in Birmingham, England, Director of the Centre for Quaker Studies at the University of Sunderland, England, and is an honorary lecturer in its Department of Theology. He is convener of the Quaker Studies Research Association and editor of the journal Quaker Studies. John W. Oliver is Professor Emeritus of the History Department at Malone College in Ohio. He served as clerk/convener for two biennial conferences of Quaker Historians and Archivists, a member of the executive committee of the Ohio Academy of History, and is now Coordinator for the North American Chapter of the Orthodox Peace Fellowship.

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