Articles and Publications

Articles and Publications by Mary Ellen Chijioke and Patricia A. Silva There is a very rich range of recent new literature in Quaker history, includingreligioushistory, social activism, and theprivate lives ofFriends— and how these interact. Two articles provide brief overviews ofthe full span of Quaker religious history. In "Changing Patterns of Koinonia and Authority," (Friends Quarterly 30.6. (1997): 285-297), Jim Wickens examines the state of communion, fellowship, way of life, self-image, and authority in five periods of Quakerism. His analysis pinpoints authority and identity as the central problems of twentieth-century Quakerism. Warren Steinkraus presents an historical review in his contribution on "Quaker Mysticism" in Mysticism and the Mystical Experience, edited by Donald H. Bishop (Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna University Press, 1995; pp. 110-132). There is a wide range of works on regional Quaker history. As a by product ofhis extensive research on Irish Quakers and business, Richard S. Harrison has producedABiographicalDictionary ofIrish Quakers(O\\b\m; Portland: Four Courts Press, 1997). At the time ofher death, Marjorie Sykes was combining her personal experience with her considerable intellectual skills to write a seminal history of Quakerism on the Indian subcontinent. It has been completed and edited by Geoffrey Carnali as An Indian Tapestry: Quaker Threads in the History ofIndia, Pakistan & Bangladesh, from the Seventeenth Century to Independence (York: Sessions, 1997). Margaret Hope Bacon has provided a very useful concise history of American Quakerism in her article, "On the Verge: The Evolution of American Quakerism," in America's Alternative Religions, edited by Timothy Miller (Albany, NY: State University ofNew York, 1995), pp. 6976 . She concludes that, despite its evolution from an alternative to a mainstream religion, Quakerism retains some ofits outsider characteristics. Elsewhere in North America, Jason Michael Yaremko includes information on Quakers in his Ph.D. dissertation on American Protestant missions in Cuba, 1898-1935. There is a great deal of recent material on seventeenth-century Quakerism . Two books cover early Quakerism in the context of regional dissent: Friends appear in the second and third volumes of John Breay's lawyerly work, Light in the Dales: The Agrarian Background to the Rise ofPolitical and Religious Dissent in the Northern Dales in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 1996); and Phil Kilroy's Articles and Publications67 work onProtestantDissentand Controversy in Ireland, 1660-1714 (Cork: Cork University Press, 1994) includes a chapter on controversies between Quakers and other dissenters. A third article, "Un masaniello Quachero: James Nayler" (Revista di storia e litteratura relgiosa (Firenze) 33.1 (1997): [67]-91), by Stefani Villano, discusses the impact of Nayler's life on Italy. Seventeenth-century Quakers provoked varying reactions in continental Europe. In his article, "Pierre Bayle, Benjamin Furly and Quakerism," (in De l'humanisme aux lumières, Bayle et le protestantisme, ed by M. Magdelaine et al. (Paris: Universitas; Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1996), 623-633) William H. Barber discusses contacts between Pierre Bayle and Benjamin Furley after the Huguenot philosopher moved to Rotterdam in 1681. It is uncertain what influence Quakers may have had on Bayle, but it is clear that they were considered beyond the pale by the Dutch. In discussing "A Quakerin Jan Steen" (Notes in the HistoryofArñA.2 (Winter 1950): 30-34), B. Wind demonstrates how this explains the apparent discrepancy of a sober Quaker appearing among licentious figures in Steen's allegorical painting of licentiousness, Beware ofLuxury. Seventeenth century Quaker missionary activities are seen from a Mennonite perspective in Michael Dennis Driedger's Ph.D. dissertation, "Mennonites ? Heretics? Obedient Citizens?: Categorizing People in Hamburg and Altona, 1648-1713" (Queens University at Kingston (Canada), 1996). The volume and range of recent research into Quaker women's religious activity in the seventeenth century is reflected in current publications. In Hidden inPlain Sight: QuakerWomen's Writings, 1650-1700(Wallingford, PA: Pendle Hill, 1996), Mary Garman and others in the Quaker Women Research Group at Earlham have edited a selection of 36 of the 200 items they included in their microfilm. In his article " 'And Your Daughters Shall Prophesy': Gender and Culture in Early Quaker Biblical Interpretation" (in Text and Experience: Towards a Cultural Exegesis of the Bible, ed. by Daniel Smith-Christopher. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press...