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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches > Quakers (Religious Society of Friends)
This landmark volume is the first in a century to examine the
"Second Period" of Quakerism, a time when the Religious Society of
Friends experienced upheavals in theology, authority and
institutional structures, and political trajectories as a result of
the persecution Quakers faced in the first decades of the
movement's existence. The authors and special contributors explore
the early growth of Quakerism, assess important developments in
Quaker faith and practice, and show how Friends coped with the
challenges posed by external and internal threats in the final
years of the Stuart age-not only in Europe and North America but
also in locations such as the Caribbean. This groundbreaking
collection sheds new light on a range of subjects, including the
often tense relations between Quakers and the authorities, the role
of female Friends during the Second Period, the effect of major
industrial development on Quakerism, and comparisons between
founder George Fox and the younger generation of Quakers, such as
Robert Barclay, George Keith, and William Penn. Accessible,
well-researched, and seamlessly comprehensive, The Quakers,
1656-1723 promises to reinvigorate a conversation largely ignored
by scholarship over the last century and to become the definitive
work on this important era in Quaker history. In addition to the
authors, the contributors are Erin Bell, Raymond Brown, J. William
Frost, Emma Lapsansky-Werner, Robynne Rogers Healey, Alan P. F.
Sell, and George Southcombe.
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