Articles and Publications

Articles and Publications By Christopher Densmore and Barbara Addison The Creation of Quaker Theory: Insider Perspectives, edited by Pink Dandelion (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004), contains twelve essays by scholars who are either Friends or share close affinities with the Society of Friends, reflecting on the state ofQuaker studies, particularly on historical and theological interpretations of seventeenth century Quakerism. Contributors include Richard Bailey, Hugh Barbour, Pink Dandelion, Martin Davie, Douglas Gwyn, Thomas D. Hamm, Rosemary Moore, Gay Pilgrim, JohnPunshon, Glen D. Reynolds, Arthur O. Roberts, Carole D. Spencer and Michele Lise Tarter. Thomas D. Hamm's The Quakers in America (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003), part of the Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series, provides a much needed overview of Friends from early America to the twenty-first century, recognizing the theological diversity amongmodernFriends andhowFriendshavereactedto issues ofrace, gender, sexuality and involvement in the world. The Quaker Presence in America: "Let Us Then Try WhatLove WiIlDo" edited by Barbara A. and Charles W. Heavilin (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2003), the fifth volume in Mellen's Quaker Studies series, consists ofreprints oflectures and popular articles largely by twentieth century Quakers, including D. Elton Trueblood, Rufus Jones andDavidJohns. Original material includes CharlesHeavilin on "Placing Friends in an American Context" and Thomas Hamm on "Indiana Quakers and Politics, 1 8 1 0-1 865." Chuck Fager "Quaker History and Theology : Three Interviews," Quaker Theology 5.1 (Spring/Summer 2003) presents interviews with Thomas Hamm, Thomas Kennedy and Erin Bell from the 2002 sessions ofthe Conference of Quaker Historians and Archivists. The writings of early Quaker women continue to engage scholars. Undaunted Zeal: The Letters ofMargaret Fell, edited and introduced by Elsa F. Glines, foreword by Rosemary Moore (Richmond, IN: Friends United Press, 2003), includes all known letters by Fell, dating from 1652 to 1 700. Recent articles include Shelia Wright, "Gaining a Voice: An Interpretation of Quaker Women's Writing, 1740-1850," Quaker Studies 8.1 (September2003): 36-50, CatieGill, "Identities in QuakerWomen's Writing, 1652-1660," Women 's Writing [Great Britain] 9.2 (2002): 267-83, Naomi Baker, "MenofOurOwnNation: Gender, Race andthe OtherinEarlyModern Quaker Writing," Literature andHistory 1 0.2 (Autumn 200 1 ): 1-25, "I Had a Religious Mother: MaternalAncestry, Female Spaces, and Spiritual Synthesis in Elisabeth Ashbridge's Account," Early American Literature 36.3 (200 1): 37 1 -394 andHelen Plant, "Subjective Testimonies: Women Quaker Articles and Publications85 Ministers and Spiritual Authorities in England, 1750-1835," Gender and History 1 5.2 (2003): 296-3 18. Strength in Weakness: Writings ofEighteenthCentury Quaker Women edited and introduced by Gil Skidmore (Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press in cooperation with the International Sacred LiteratureTrust, 2003)reproducestexts fromeightBritishFriends: Grace Hall Chamber, LydiaRawlinsonLancaster,RuthAlcockFollows, Catherine Payton Phillips, Sarah Tuke Grubb, Priscilla Hannah Gurney, Mary Alexander and AnnCrowley. PhyllisMack, "Religion, Feminism, andtheProblemofAgency: Reflections onEighteenthCenturyQuakerism,"Signs:JournalofWomen in CultureandSociety29A (Val\2003): 149-177, drawinglargelyonher research with Quaker women's journals, urges scholars to take women's religious sensibilities seriously. Christine Trevett, '"NotFittobe Printed' : the Welsh, the Women and the Second Day's Morning Meeting,"Journal oftheFriends Historical Society 59.2 (2001): 1 12-144 examines the deliberations ofLondon Yearly Meeting's Second Day's Morning Meeting on the publication of Quakerbooks, withparticularreference to manuscriptspresentedbywomen. Studies of seventeenth and eighteenth century British Friends include "Tradition Versus Innovation: The Hat, Wilkinson-Story and Kethian Controversies," by Clare LL. Martin, QuakerStudies 8.1 (September2003): 5-22; Erin Bell, "Vain Unsettled Fashions: The Early Durham Friends and Popular Culture," Quaker Studies 8.1 (September 2003): 23-35, Richard J. Hoare, "The Balby Seekers and Richard Farnsworth," Quaker Studies 8.2 (March 2004): 194-207, John Wood, "The Complaints Book of Richard Hutton," concerning Clerkenwell, circa 171 1-1737, in The Journal ofthe Friends Historical Society 59.2 (2001): 145-154 and Peter Collins, "Discipline : The Codification ofQuakerism as Orthopraxy, 1650-1 738," History and Anthropology [Great Britain], 13.2 (2002): 79-92. Quaker Religious Thought99-100 (April2003): 37-66, contains reviews ofRosemaryMoore's The Light in Their Consciences by Stephen Angeli and Corey Beals with a response by Moore. Quakers on the European continent are the subject of Claus Bernet, "Ames, Caton, and Furly: Three Quaker Missionaries in the Late Seventeenth Century...