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Abstract: "I felt like the Pied Piper as I walked," remarked William Miner in a 1960 report from Israel. In 1950, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) had leveraged its relief work in Gaza and Galilee amidst the Palestinian refugee crisis of 1948–49 into formal socioeconomic development projects as part of a wider effort to build peace among Jews and Arabs.1 Miner, a community organizer hired by the Quaker-affiliated AFSC, was commenting upon his unofficial return visit to the Arab village of Tur'an where the AFSC had operated a development project from 1950 to 1955. As he made numerous social calls, catching up with the growing families of his acquaintances, he reported happily that the way the villagers ... Read More PubDate: 2021-12-12T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In a 1979 review of Arthur J. Mekeel's The Relation of the Quakers to the American Revolution, Robert M. Calhoun, a Quaker historian, praised the publication of what had already become, in his 1940 Harvard doctoral dissertation version, a "magnificent piece of work" that formed part of "the very foundation of scholarship on Quakers in America" for nearly forty years. Yet he bemoaned the fact that the author did not connect the text to his own intellectual and political history.1 In the present article, new research for the first time reveals the broader context for Arthur J. Mekeel's writing of his most important book. It reveals that Mekeel's personal and professional history, as well as the career of his mature ... Read More PubDate: 2021-12-12T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Between 1882 and 1909 Quakers established three meetings in the American frontier town of Pasadena, California, incorporated in 1886—two quite progressive, and one very conservative. During that quarter century each of the three groups in question built radically different places of worship in the city, each drawing upon and/or resisting the long Quaker architectural tradition they inherited. This study thus starts by tracing that inheritance from its beginning in George Fox's England to colonial North America. It savors an American Quaker architectural invention, the "ideal Quaker plan" that emerged in the mid eighteenth century (and dominated Quaker building for more than a century thereafter). The paper then ... Read More PubDate: 2021-12-12T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Richard Allen and Rosemary Moore's The Quakers, 1656–1723, is a slim volume considering the wealth of material covered. Its introduction and thirteen chapters offer impressive and accessible breadth for those less familiar with the early history of the Religious Society of Friends as well as extraordinary depth for those wishing to engage classic and current scholarship about this period.Both an update of and response to William Braithwaite's The Second Period of Quakerism (1919, revised 1961) and, to a lesser extent, Rufus Jones's The Quakers in the American Colonies (1909), the authors provide a thorough introduction to the people, places, and themes of these crucial decades. Yet they also helpfully complicate ... Read More PubDate: 2021-12-12T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: As the title suggests, Quaker Studies: An Overview surveys the current state of scholarship regarding Quakers and Quakerism, and in that ambitious goal it succeeds admirably. This short and accessible volume, the first in a series from Brill publishers on Quaker Studies, ably sets the stage for the volumes to follow, describing the major themes and key publications that define Quaker studies today. It is instantly indispensable for anyone working in the field. The book opens with an introductory essay from leading scholars and series editors Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion that lays out the purpose and scope of the work. Angell and Dandelion note the tremendous growth of scholarship in Quaker studies in the ... Read More PubDate: 2021-12-12T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: An ambitious and inspiring documentary film intended for the general public, Quakers, the Quiet Revolutionaries provides a broad introduction both to Quakers as a contemporary religious group—primarily the more liberal part – and to the history of Quakers in early modern England and in America. Award-winning documentary film director Janet Paxton Gardner and senior producer Richard E. Nurse worked with a star-studded cast of Quaker historians and scholars, both as consultants (Max Carter, Ben Pink Dandelion, Thomas Hamm, Candace McCoy, and Andrew Murphy) and as on-screen interviewees, ensuring that the factual background and the general narrative of particular sections are authoritative. Indeed, as he introduced a ... Read More PubDate: 2021-12-12T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Lindsay DiCuirci's book Colonial Revivals seeks to join the "history-as-process" and the "constructed archive" genres so popular in recent American historiography. Her topic is the "documania" of nineteenth-century American antiquarians and their "near pathological obsession with manuscripts and documents related to colonial history in particular." (18) While some men, like author Washington Irving, wrote of their fear of navigating a chaos of overproduction—of too much being in print and of thus losing authorial possession—most of the nineteenth-century emphasis was on preservation. Had the ancient Egyptians spent more time finding ways to immortalize their words in print, by producing copies of their hieroglyphs ... Read More PubDate: 2021-12-12T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The Southern Friend: Journal of the North Carolina Friends Historical Society, published from 1979 to 2007 and covering the history of the Society of Friends in North Carolina, is now freely available online (https://www.jstor.org/site/guilford/southern-friend-ncfhs/). Previously behind a pay-wall, The Southern Friend provides information to researchers of Quaker history in the southeastern United States. The Southern Friends joins The Journal of the Friends Historical Society (https://journals.sas.ac.uk/fhs) and the Canadian Friends Historical Association's journal, Canadian Quaker History Journal. ... Read More PubDate: 2021-12-12T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Hugh Stewart Barbour of Sleepy Hollow, New York, departed this life on January 8, 2021, at the age of 99. Born in Beijing, China on August 7, 1921, Hugh was the son of George Brown Barbour, a geologist renowned for his study of Chinese stratigraphy, and his wife, Dorothy Dickinson Barbour–a religious-education teacher at Hartford Theological Seminary. Inspired by the lives of his parents—who, shortly after their marriage, were dispatched by the London Missionary Society to Peking, China where they worked with the Famine Relief Commission—Hugh Barbour pursued a long and prolific intellectual and religious career as Professor of Religion at Earlham College and Professor of Church History at Earlham School of ... Read More PubDate: 2021-12-12T00:00:00-05:00
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