The Quakers in America

Hamm, Thomas D.

The Quakers in America [electronic resource] / Thomas D. Hamm. - New York : Columbia University Press, 2003. - 1 online resource (viii, 293 p.) : ill., 1 map. - Columbia contemporary American religion series . - Columbia contemporary American religion series. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Meeting for worship and meeting for business -- The origins of American Quakerism, 1640-1800 -- Their separate ways : American Friends since 1800 -- Quaker faiths and practices -- Contemporary Quaker debates -- Quakers and the world -- "A quarterly meeting in herself" : Quaker women, marriage, and the family -- Quaker lives, past and contemporary.

023150893X (electronic bk.) 9780231508933 (electronic bk.)


Society of Friends--United States.
RELIGION--Christianity--Quaker.


Electronic books.

BX7635 / .H26 2003eb

289.6/73