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  • 3 - Robinson Crusoe and Defoe’s Career as a Writer

  • from Part I - Robinson Crusoe and Daniel Defoe: The Eighteenth Century
  • Edited by John Richetti, University of Pennsylvania
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to ‘Robinson Crusoe'
    Published online:
    04 May 2018
    Print publication:
    26 April 2018, pp 32-48
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  • 13 - Quakers in Asia-Pacific

  • from Part III - Regional Studies
  • Edited by Stephen W. Angell, Pink Dandelion, University of Birmingham
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism
    Published online:
    06 April 2018
    Print publication:
    19 April 2018, pp 237-256

  • Summary

    Spanning from India in the west, up to China in the north, and down to New Zealand in the southeast, the Asia-Pacific region is home to approximately 35,000 Friends in about twenty countries. By the numbers, close to 90% are Evangelical, 6% are non-pastoral Programmed, and 5% are Unprogrammed. This chapter looks beyond these statistics by outlining the work of Quakers, and touches on Quaker-related organizations that operate in the region.

  • 7 - Quakers and Education

  • from Part II - Expressions of Quaker Faith
  • Edited by Stephen W. Angell, Pink Dandelion, University of Birmingham
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism
    Published online:
    06 April 2018
    Print publication:
    19 April 2018, pp 128-146

  • Summary

    This chapter surveys educational institutions, philosophies, and trends in schools started by Friends worldwide, examining both practical and religious dimensions of Friends’ education, with attention to how these have evolved within the different branches of Quakerism. It explores the nature of the “guarded and select” education that Quakers gave their own youth, and the ways they educated the poor and African Americans. It considers the effects of nineteenth-century Holiness revivals on Quaker education. It examines the recent growth of the religious and theological dimensions of Quaker studies. It also examines controversies that concern contemporary Quaker education, especially as it relates to the education of the children of the wealthy and powerful.

  • 6 - Seeking Peace: Quakers Respond to War

  • from Part II - Expressions of Quaker Faith
  • Edited by Stephen W. Angell, Pink Dandelion, University of Birmingham
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism
    Published online:
    06 April 2018
    Print publication:
    19 April 2018, pp 106-127

  • Summary

    This chapter surveys the history of the Quaker Peace Testimony (QPT), explores challenges of defining peace, and uses an original model to explain how modern QPT is of two sorts, ‘war abolishing’ and ‘conflict-transforming’. It describes some current expressions of QPT, including examples from the authors’ countries, Canada and Korea, and closes with some challenges, as Friends seek to maintain their witness for peace into the future.

  • 15 - Quakers and Non-theism

  • from Part IV - Emerging Spiritualities
  • Edited by Stephen W. Angell, Pink Dandelion, University of Birmingham
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism
    Published online:
    06 April 2018
    Print publication:
    19 April 2018, pp 274-289

  • Summary

    This chapter focuses on non-theist perspectives, including non-theist publications as well as non-theist writings within Universalist publications. This chapter includes: a discussion on ways which non-theists have chosen to define themselves; interpretations of Quaker history and identity; assessments of the priority of reason and Quaker practice as core aspects of both theist and non-theist Quakerism; and a potential outline for a unique a/theology for non-theism, including avenues where non-theist Friends have demonstrated efforts to bridge the theist/non-theist divide, and potential areas of future development in non-theist thought.

  • Introduction

  • Edited by Stephen W. Angell, Pink Dandelion, University of Birmingham
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism
    Published online:
    06 April 2018
    Print publication:
    19 April 2018, pp 1-10

  • Summary

    The Quakers (or Friends) today are a global faith, highly distinctive in their theological emphases and practice, and comprised of different branches. The recent history has been one of schism, diversification, mission and varying degrees of intra-denominational ecumenism. For all but a few Quakers, there still exists a ‘world family of Friends’, rooted in both an historical tradition of faith, practice and witness that transcends doctrinal, liturgical and political diversity.

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