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Quakers and Mysticism: Comparative and Syncretic Approaches to Spirituality

Edited by Jon R. Kershner

Paperback: 269 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (September 18, 2020)
Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.8 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.7 ounces
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Synopsis

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, Abū 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.

Part of Palgrave’s “Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Mysticism” series.