The Quakers: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

By Pink Dandelion

This is the right introductory advisor to the background and concepts of the Quakers, one of many world's so much interesting and enigmatic non secular teams. rising in England within the 1650s as a thorough sect not easy the established order, the Quakers are actually top identified for his or her anti-slavery actions, their principled stance opposed to struggle, and their pioneering paintings in penal reform. recognized Quakers contain Thomas Paine, Walt Whitman, Lucretia Mott, Herbert Hoover, James Dean, Judi Dench, and A.S. Byatt. And whereas the gang nonetheless continues a particular worship way to in attaining an immediate come across with God, which has been on the middle of the circulate on account that its starting, Quakers this day are hugely assorted: a few perform a protestant evangelicalism, others aren't any longer Christian. during this generously illustrated ebook, crimson Dandelion, the prime professional on Quaker experiences, attracts at the most recent scholarship to chart the background of the sect and its present-day variety world wide, exploring its new angle to worship, trust, theology and language, and ecumenism. It concludes by way of putting the Quakers within the wider spiritual photo and predicting its future.

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