Isaac Barnes May
Biographic Data
| ID | 1037412 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Isaac Barnes May |
| GIVEN NAMES | Isaac Barnes |
| FAMILY NAME | May |
| SIGNATURE | MAY I B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Invention of Professional Quakerism
This article describes the emergence of ‘professional Quakers’, or Friends who emerged as leaders of Quaker institutions based on secular credentials. In the early twentieth century, many American Quaker institutions, especially Quaker colleges, large yearly meetings, and Quaker organisations like the American Friends Service Committee, began hiring full-time staff and assembling boards that resembled the structures of corporations and other secu…
When History Substitutes for Theology
This article argues that histories of 19th century Quakerism are often veiled interdenominational theological arguments among Quakers. It looks at the historiography of the Hicksite Separation and the emergence of the pastoral system to suggest that the branch of Quakerism from which the author originates often plays a critical role in how they narrate history. The article suggests that objectivity is not an achievable or desirable aim for Quaker…
The Great Fight for Democracy, Religion, and the Home
This study examines a peace group created during the Second World War, the Committee Opposed to the Conscription of Women ( COCW ), in order to reframe the apparent secularization of activism in the postwar period. Despite the fact that the COCW did not openly use religious rhetoric, it was a liberal religious project and part of what Patricia Appelbaum describes as “Protestant Pacifist culture.” Its members professed religious commitments, and t…
Hardly Quakerism
Opening the Shutters
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries American Gurneyite Quakers ended the practice of having separate women’s Meetings for Business. This article examines the discourse among Gurneyite Quakers that argued for and against ending these separate Meetings and the creation of co-gendered ‘joint’ Meetings. It argues based on this inquiry that while this process may have been linked to larger shifts in gender roles that were occurring wi…
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Opening the Shutters
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries American Gurneyite Quakers ended the practice of having separate women’s Meetings for Business. This article examines the discourse among Gurneyite Quakers that argued for and against ending these separate Meetings and the creation of co-gendered ‘joint’ Meetings. It argues based on this inquiry that while this process may have been linked to larger shifts in gender roles that were occurring wi…
Hardly Quakerism
The Great Fight for Democracy, Religion, and the Home
This study examines a peace group created during the Second World War, the Committee Opposed to the Conscription of Women ( COCW ), in order to reframe the apparent secularization of activism in the postwar period. Despite the fact that the COCW did not openly use religious rhetoric, it was a liberal religious project and part of what Patricia Appelbaum describes as “Protestant Pacifist culture.” Its members professed religious commitments, and t…
When History Substitutes for Theology
This article argues that histories of 19th century Quakerism are often veiled interdenominational theological arguments among Quakers. It looks at the historiography of the Hicksite Separation and the emergence of the pastoral system to suggest that the branch of Quakerism from which the author originates often plays a critical role in how they narrate history. The article suggests that objectivity is not an achievable or desirable aim for Quaker…
The Invention of Professional Quakerism
This article describes the emergence of ‘professional Quakers’, or Friends who emerged as leaders of Quaker institutions based on secular credentials. In the early twentieth century, many American Quaker institutions, especially Quaker colleges, large yearly meetings, and Quaker organisations like the American Friends Service Committee, began hiring full-time staff and assembling boards that resembled the structures of corporations and other secu…
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Religious studies (3 works) · Protestantism (2 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (2 works)