Overview

This book examines the nearly 400-year tradition of Quaker engagements with mystical ideas and sources. It provides a fresh assessment of the way tradition and social context can shape a religious community while interplaying with historical and theological antecedents within the tradition. Quaker concepts such as “Meeting,” the “Light,” and embodied spirituality, have led Friends to develop an interior spirituality that intersects with extra-Quaker sources, such as those found in Jakob Boehme, Abū Bakr ibn Tufayl, the Continental Quietists, Kabbalah, Buddhist thought, and Luyia indigenous religion. Through time and across cultures, these and other conversations have shaped Quaker self-understanding and, so, expanded previous models of how religious ideas take root within a tradition. The thinkers engaged in this globally-focused, interdisciplinary volume include George Fox, James Nayler, Robert Barclay, Elizabeth Ashbridge, John Woolman, Hannah Whitall Smith, Rufus Jones, Inazo Nitobe, Howard Thurman, and Gideon W. H. Mweresa, among others.

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Author:   Jon R. Kershner
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2019
Weight:   0.483kg
ISBN:  

9783030216528

ISBN 10:   3030216527
Pages:   255
Publication Date:   18 September 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1) Introduction: Quaker Engagements with Mysticism 2) “Meeting”: The Mystical Legacy of George Fox 3) James Nayler and Jacob Boehme’s The Way to Christ 4) How Ecology, Economics, and Ethics Brought Winstanley and Nitobe to Quakerism 5) Robert Barclay and Kabbala 6) Elizabeth Ashbridge and Spiritual Autobiography: The Old Awakened in the New 7) John Woolman’s Christological Model of Discernment 8) Hannah Whitall Smith’s Highway of Holiness 9) The Unifying Light of Allah: Ibn Tufail and Rufus Jones in Dialogue 10) Howard Thurman (1899-1981): Universalist Approaches to Buddhism and Quakerism 11) The Singing Mysticism: Kenyan Quakerism, the Case of Gideon W. H. Mweresa 12)  Liberal Quakers and Buddhism 13) Conclusion

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Jon R. Kershner teaches in the Religion department at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, USA.

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