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Mysticism and Reform, 1400–1750, edited by Sara S. Poor and Nigel Smith (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015) includes a chapter by Genelle C. Gertz, “Quaker Mysticism as the Return of the Medieval Repressed: English Women Prophets Before and After the Reformation.” Kristianna Polder, Matrimony in the True Church: the Seventeenth-Century Quaker Marriage Approbation Discipline (Burlington: Ashgate, 2015) examines marriage among English Friends, with particular attention to the marriage of George Fox and Margaret Fell. Elizabeth Bouldin, Women Prophets and Radical Protestantism in the British Atlantic World, 1640–1730 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015) includes a chapter, “Female Prophecy, Election, and the Transatlantic Quaker Community” and other references to Quakers.
Other studies of Quaker religious thought in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries include: Jonathan Warren, “‘Out of Whose Hive the Quakers Swarm’d’: Polemics and the Justification of Infant Baptism in the Early Restoration,” Perichoresis, 13:1 (June 2015) 97–113; Carol Dale Spencer, “James Nayler and Jacob Boehme’s The Way to Christ,” Quaker Religious Thought, No. 125 (Oct. 2015), 43–56; Jon R. Kershner, “Mysticism and Revelation in John Woolman’s Theology,” Quaker Religious Thought, No. 125 (Oct. 2015), 34–42; and Judith Roads, The Distinctiveness of Quaker Prose, 1650–1699: a Corpus-Based Enquiry (Thesis (Ph.D.), University of Birmingham, 2015).
Works on early Quakerism with an American context include: Natalie Spar, “The Politics of the Pure Language in Seventeenth-Century Quakerism: Speech, Silence, and the Founding of Pennsylvania,” Early American Studies 13.3 (Summer 2015), 692–713; Andrew R. Murphy, “The Emergence of William Penn, 1668–1671,” Journal of Church & State, 57:2 (Spring 2015), 333–359; and Heather E. Barry, “Naked Quakers Who Were Not So Naked: Seventeenth-Century Quaker Women in the Massachusetts Bay Colony,” Historical Journal of Massachusetts, 43.2 (Summer 2015) 116–135.
Two recent studies examine the meaning of travel among seventeenth and eighteenth century Friends. Hillary Hinds, “Going Nowhere: the Stranger and the Pilgrim in the Journal of George Fox,” Quaker Studies 20:1 (Sept. 2015), 84–102, looks at the place of the journey, the rhetoric of movement and the figure of the stranger in the writings and behavior of early Friends. Jon R. Kershner, “‘A More Lively Feeling’: the Correspondence and Integration of Mystical and [End Page 70] Spatial Dynamics in John Woolman’s Travels,” Quaker Studies 20:1 (Sept. 2015), 103–116, examines the impact of his travels on his social and religious convictions. Tony Seaton, “Travel and Touring in England by Elite Quaker, Industrial Families in The Long Nineteenth Century: the Journeys of Mary-Anne Schimmelpenninck (née Galton) of Birmingham (1778–1856),” Quaker Studies 20:1 (Sept. 2015), 117–144, considers the role of tourism in promoting connections among British Quakers in the nineteenth century. A related work is by Jordan Landes, London Quakers in the Trans-Atlantic World: the Creation of an Early Modern Community (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [UK]: New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
Two studies examine material culture among American Quakers: Michael Lawrence Young, The Style of Quaker Consumption in British Colonial New Jersey: the Link Between Religious Beliefs and Values and the Archaeological Record of the Society of Friends (Thesis (Ph.D.), School of Archaeology and Ancient History, 2015); and Neil Larson, “The Architecture of Quaker Meeting Houses in Dutchess County,” Hudson River Valley Review 31.2 (Spring 2015), 62–87.
Quakers and Their Allies in the Abolitionist Cause, 1754–1808, edited with an introduction by Maurice Jackson and Susan Kozel (Abingdon, Oxon. [UK]; New York: Routledge, 2015) contains a wealth of chapters by leading scholars: Gary B. Nash, “Warner Mifflin (1745–98): The Remarkable Life of an Unflinching Abolitionist”; Geoffrey Plank, “Sarah Woolman and the Anti-Slavery Family”; Julie Winch, “Friends, Family and Freedom in Colonial Philadelphia: A Black Slave-Owner Settles Her Accounts”; Maurice Jackson, ‘What Shall Be Done with the Negroes?’: Anthony Benezet’s Legacy: Then and Now”; Richard C. Allen, “Samuel Meredith (1741–1817): American Patriot and Welsh Philanthropist”; Jon R. Kershner, “‘Come Out of Babylon, My People’: John Wool-man’s (1720–72) Anti-Slavery Theology and the Transatlantic Economy”; Julie L...
