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Quaker women in South Africa during the apartheid era
Quaker women in South Africa during the apartheid era
by Woodbrooke - Petronella Clark, Fran Cetti
This study explores the idea that women members of the Quaker community (the Religious Society of Friends) in South Africa played a ‘highly visible and significant role’ in the struggle against apartheid. The author uses both archive material and her findings from questionnaires,…
The Quaker experience in Kenya
The Quaker experience in Kenya
by Woodbrooke - David Kikaya
This thesis explores the roots of East Africa Yearly Meeting, at the time of writing the largest Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends in the world, with 50,000 members. The study centres on the American Friends’ Mission to Kaimosi, British Colonial Kenya between the…
The temporal collage
The temporal collage
by woodbrooke - Judy Firth, Fran Cetti
This thesis argues that Quakers (members of the Religious Society of Friends) create their own ‘temporal collages’ through which they balance the competing demands on their time. In order to capture the varied qualities of Quaker time, the author portrays it as ‘polychronic’ (mul…
Friendly patriots: British quakerism and the imperial nation, 1890-1910
Friendly patriots: British quakerism and the imperial nation, 1890-1910
by Woodbrooke - Brian Phillips, Rebecca Wynter
This thesis examines the public image and dominant attitudes of British Friends between 1890 and 1910 through the Quaker press – The Friend, The British Friend, Friends’ Quarterly Examiner and Peace and Goodwill – as well as reports from Yearly Meeting and British Weekly, a Nonco…
Introduction to Friendly patriots: British quakerism and the imperial nation
Introduction to Friendly patriots: British quakerism and the imperial nation
by Woodbrooke - Brian Phillips, Rebecca Wynter
This thesis examines the public image and dominant attitudes of British Friends between 1890 and 1910 through the Quaker press – The Friend, The British Friend, Friends’ Quarterly Examiner and Peace and Goodwill
Early Quaker Christology
Early Quaker Christology
by Woodbrooke - Maurise Creasey, Andrew Harvey
Creasey argues that the concept of the ‘inner light’ must be understood in Christological terms, but also that traditional Christological formulas are less valuable than knowing Christ experimentally; and that Christ the Light is redemptively active throughout creation: the Incar…
Quakerly Conflict
Quakerly Conflict
by Woodbrooke - Douglas Kline, Fran Cetti
This thesis examines the issue of internal conflict in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) through an analysis of the author’s fieldwork findings. It uses a conceptual framework that proposes that individual identity is culturally constructed by its social setting – within…
In love and life: Towards a quaker therapy and the pastoral care of those in mental dis-ease
In love and life: Towards a quaker therapy and the pastoral care of those in mental dis-ease
by Woodbrooke - Carolyn Sansom, Fran Cetti
The theme of this thesis is the centrality of relationship to individual well-being; its focus is the help offered to those who experience mental ‘dis-ease’ by the theory and practice of ‘therapeutic Quakerism’. It argues that a different model of care to that of the current biom…
On Earth as it is in Heaven
On Earth as it is in Heaven
by Woodbrooke - Kathryn Damiano, Andrew Harvey
This thesis argues against the received view of 18th century Quakerism, which is heavily influenced by the work of Rufus Jones and effectively depreciates it in favour of the 17th c. It is widely thought that the tightening discipline and regulation of the minutiae of life found …
Quakerism and the approaches to mental affliction
Quakerism and the approaches to mental affliction
by Woodbrooke - Amanda Lawrence, Rebecca Wynter
This thesis explores the association of George Fox (1624-1691) – Leicestershire-born founder of the Society of Friends – and William Tuke (1732-1822) – leading York Quaker, businessman and philanthropist – to the treatment of mental illness. Split into three main chapters, the au…
The Quaker understanding of the Ministerial Vocation
The Quaker understanding of the Ministerial Vocation
by Woodbrooke - Lucia Beamish, Andrew Harvey
This thesis considers Quaker ministry from George Fox through the 18th into the 19th century, and argues that there was a diversion from the conception of Fox, represented by both an increasingly oppressive formal structure, and by shallow lack of considered discernment concernin…
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