Stella & Rose's Books

Front cover

Contents

• List of Figures
• Note on Abbreviation and Terminology
• Introduction
• PART ONE: THE QUAKERS
• I. Theology: Some Patterns of Belief and Action
• The Evangelicals
• The Quietists
• The Unitarian Element
• The Spread of Liberal Theology
• II. Belief Divided: Three Schisms
• An An Evangelical Schism - The Beaconites
• A Quietist Schism - Fritchley
• A Unitarian Schism - The Manchester Rationalists
• The Forces which fostered Unity
• III. Quaker Organisation: Theory and Practice
• Membership
• Business Meetings
• The Decline of Interest in Business Meetings
• Quaker Democracy in Practice
• Meetings of Ministers and Elders
• Standing and ad hoc committee
• The Clerk
• Meetings for Worship and the Ministry
• Elders and Overseers
• Finance and Salaried Staff
• The Position of Women
• IV. Exits and Entrances
• The Pattern of Membership Figures
• Recruitment, Explusions and Resignations
• Two Case Studies:
• V. The Growth of 'Conformity to the World'
• The Machinery of Isolation
• Quakers and the State
• Quaker Puritanism
• The Forces of Conservation and the Forces of Change
• The Consequence of Change
• PART TWO: THE QUAKERS AND SOCIETY
• VI. The Economic and Demographic Structure of Quakerism
• Demographic characteristics
• Geographic Distribution
• Economic and Social Composition
• The Great Quaker Merchants, Financiers and Industrialists
• Conclusion
• VII. Quakers in Politics
• The Era of Political Quietism
• Political Queitism Challenger
• The Party Allegiances of Friends
• Quakers in Parliament
• Other Quakers in Politics
• VIII. Quakers and Philanthrophy
• The Well-Springs of Philanthropy
• The Peace Movement
• The Anti-Slavery Movement
• The Temperance Movement
• Free Trade and Factory Legislation
• Prisons and Capital Punishment
• Social Purity
• The Changing Face of Late Victorian Philanthropy
• IX. A Special Calling: Quakers in Adult Education
• The Background
• The Spread of First Day Schools
• The Changing Character of Adult Schools
• The Relationship of the Schools to Quakerism
• Conclusion: Image and Reality
• Appendix
• Bibliography
• Index