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Author:   Hugh S. Barbour ,  J Willia Frost
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Greenwood Press
Volume:   No 3
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 3.40cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.785kg
ISBN:  

9780313228162

ISBN 10:   0313228167
Pages:   421
Publication Date:   15 November 1988
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

The Quakers: A History of Friends in America Introduction: The Society of Friends The Religious Setting of the Early Friends The Lamb's War and the Awakening of the North of England Quaker Worship and Ethics and Their Transformation, 1652-1662 The Mission to America England, 1660-1689: Persecution, Theology, and the Universalizing of Truth The Quaker Colonies A Tolerated Sociey of Friends A Spiritual Existence A Disciplined Christian Life Crisis and Reformation The American Revolutions Quaker Migrants to Carolina and the Midwest: Eastern Philanthropists Separations The Midcontinent in the Midcentury, 1828-1867: Gurneyites and Conservatives and Slavery West and Midwest, 1867-1902: Revivals, Holiness, Missions, and Pastors The Liberal Transformation Suburban and College Friends: West and Midwest, 1902-1960 Creativity in Peacemaking Social Service and Social Change, 1902-1970 New Forms of Quaker Interaction, 1960-1987 A Biographical Dictionary of Former Quaker Leaders in America Abbreviations for Standard Sources and Quaker Organizations Bibliography Index

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.,. The authors have done an excellent job of bringing the American Quaker landscape up to date. -Church History

Author Information

HUGH BARBOUR is Professor of Religion at Earlham College and Professor of Church History at Earlham School of Religion. His previous books include Quakers in Puritan England, Slavery and Theology: Writings of Seven Quaker Reformers, and Reading and Understanding the Old Testament. J. WILLIAM FROST is Howard M. and Charles F. Jenkins Professor of Quaker History and Research and Director of the Friends Historical library, Swarthmore College. He is the author of The Quaker Family in Colonial America and editor of numerous volumes, including Quaker Origins of Antislavery and The Keithian Controversy in Early Pennsylvania.

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