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Quakers and Mysticism (Kershner, Jon R. (Hrsg.))
Quakers and Mysticism
Untertitel Comparative and Syncretic Approaches to Spirituality
Autor Kershner, Jon R. (Hrsg.)
Verlag Springer Nature EN
Co-Verlag Palgrave Macmillan (Imprint/Brand)
Sprache Englisch
Einband Fester Einband
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
Seiten 255 S.
Artikelnummer 31957402
Verlagsartikelnummer 86955313
ISBN 978-3-030-21652-8
Reihe Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Mysticism
Sonstiges Research
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Zusammenfassung
This book examines the nearly 400-year tradition of Quaker engagements with mystical ideas and sources. It provides a fresh assessment of the way tradition and social context can shape a religious community while interplaying with historical and theological antecedents within the tradition. Quaker concepts such as "Meeting," the "Light," and embodied spirituality, have led Friends to develop an interior spirituality that intersects with extra-Quaker sources, such as those found in Jakob Boehme, Abu Bakr ibn Tufayl, the Continental Quietists, Kabbalah, Buddhist thought, and Luyia indigenous religion. Through time and across cultures, these and other conversations have shaped Quaker self-understanding and, so, expanded previous models of how religious ideas take root within a tradition. The thinkers engaged in this globally-focused, interdisciplinary volume include George Fox, James Nayler, Robert Barclay, Elizabeth Ashbridge, John Woolman, Hannah Whitall Smith, Rufus Jones, Inazo Nitobe, Howard Thurman, and Gideon W. H. Mweresa, among others.


Jon R. Kershner teaches in the Religion department at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, USA.