Pink Dandelion
Biographic Data
| ID | 3586399 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pink Dandelion |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pink |
| FAMILY NAME | Dandelion |
| SIGNATURE | DANDELION P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Believing and Belonging in Britain Yearly Meeting
To Live Peaceably Together
This historical monograph chronicles the varying strategies adopted by the Quaker organization, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), to improve the housing opportunities for black families. For almost three decades beginning from the 1940s, the AFSC made cohousing a priority whilst rarely being able to achieve wholesale success. Using the detailed local and national minutes and reports typical of Quaker organizations, Tracey K’Meyer has…
Quakers and Host Cultures
This research note focuses on how present-day British Quakers fit into theories of social accommodation that are seen as predictable for religious groups over time. Typically this has been cast in terms of move from a sectarian sensibility to a denominational one. Here I suggest, however, that in a highly secular society, the desire to accommodate can lead to a process of internal secularisation as an internal linguistic coherence becomes develop…
‘When two or three are gathered’ in a Zoom Room
This research note uses data from surveys of Quaker Meetings in Britain in 2020 to offer reflections into the theology of online worship. It provides both an overview of the changes Meetings made as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic and a discussion of the nature of online worship, including to what extent 'meeting' online is experienced as 'gathered' or 'worship'. It ends by highlighting the longer-term consequences that may result from the t…
The Cultivation of Conformity
This book explores the inter-relationship between religious groups and wider society and examines the way religious groups change in relation to societal norms, potentially to the point of undergoing processes of ‘internal secularisation’ within secular and secularist cultures. Received sociological wisdom suggests that over time religious groups moderate their claims. This comes with the potential loss of new adherents, for theorists of seculari…
The Cultivation of Conformity
This book explores the inter-relationship between religious groups and wider society and examines the way religious groups change in relation to societal norms, potentially to the point of undergoing processes of 'internal secularisation' within secular and secularist cultures. Received sociological wisdom suggests that over time religious groups moderate their claims. This comes with the potential loss of new adherents, for theorists of seculari…
Religion and Youth
Religion, Equalities, and Inequalities
Transition as Normative
This article presents a consideration of the ways in which current Quaker belief and practice exemplify the condition identified by Zygmunt Bauman as liquid modernity. After a brief overview of Bauman’s thesis, we describe recent patterns of believing within British Quakerism within its socio-cultural context. While belief has been cast as marginal by scholars of this group, with the creation of habitus centred on behavioural codes or values narr…
The Oxford handbook of Quaker studies
This volume provides an indispensable reference work for the study of Quakerism. It is global in its perspectives and interdisciplinary in its approach whilst offering the reader a clear narrative through the academic debates. In addition to an in-depth survey of historical readings of Quakerism, the handbook provides a treatment of the group's key theological premises and its links with wider Christian thinking. Quakerism's distinctive ecclesias…
Collected Essays of Maurice Creasey, 1912–2004
Present and Prevented, 2006 and 2008
This article gives an interim report of the tripartite longitudinal study within Britain Yearly Meeting on worship and business meeting attendance and on appointments being made within Local and Area Meetings
"Guarded Domesticity and Engagement With "The World
This contribution to a symposium on quietism concerns what is known as the Quietist period of Quakerism in the eighteenth century. Dandelion addresses the key question of conflict between the quietist commitment of the Quaker faithful and the commitment of many among them to abolitionism and other pressing social causes. He reviews the scholarship on this issue, noting the recent tendency to look for mystical aspects to the social commitment of Q…
Introduction
In this introduction to the fourth part of an ongoing symposium on quietism, Perl, the editor of the sponsoring journal Common Knowledge, remarks on a new question raised in this latest grouping of articles. Can there be such a thing as a "mezza voce quietism"? Can there be activist quietists or quietist activists or active teachers of quietism without self-contradiction? Perl takes Gandhi and "passive resistance" as his own test case, concluding…
Comparing Two Surveys of Britain Yearly Meeting
Comparison of postal surveys of Friends in Britain Yearly Meeting in 1990 and 2003 showed modest differences for reported self-descriptions and beliefs. Quakers in 2003 appear to be less pacifist, somewhat less likely to describe God as ‘Spirit’, ‘Inward Light’, or ‘Love’ in absolute percentages, and less likely to describe Jesus as ‘containing that of God within as we all do’. Meeting for Worship was described less as ‘Seeking God’s will’, and m…
‘Choose Life!’ Quaker Metaphor and Modernity
In 2003, Grace Jantzen presented the George Richardson Lecture, the annual international lecture in Quaker studies, entitled 'Choose Life! Early Quaker Women and Violence in Modernity', which was published in Quaker Studies. It was part of her ongoing work on the preoccupation of modernity with death and violence. In the lecture she argued that Margaret Fell and most other early Quaker women encouraged a choice of life over a preoccupation with d…
The Quaker condition
Present and Prevented
A questionnaire was sent to all Monthly, Preparative and other Business Meetings and worshipping groups in Britain Yearly Meeting for completion on 7 May 2006. With an over 80 percent response rate meaningful statistics can be calculated for attendance at Meetings for worship, Meetings for business and involvement by Friends and attenders in the business of the Society.1
Research note
This research note takes Steve Bruce's analysis of secularisation within liberal religious groups and applies it to British Quakerism, noted for its permissiveness towards theology. It contends that Bruce has failed to allow for a conservative 'behavioural creed' operating to maintain conformity and elements of certainty within liberal groups. It also argues that the emphasis on a shared concept of 'towards' or 'perhaps' theology within the group…
Those Who Leave and Those Who Feel Left
Unprogrammed Friends (Quakers) in Britain provide an interesting counter-example within the sociology of religion, particularly with regard to their patterns of believing and belonging. Due to its permissive belief patterns and conformist behavioural patterns, the group has been described in terms of a 'double-culture', as a group which behaves as both sect and denomination in alternate spheres of church life. The paper reports on a study of Brit…
A Sociological Analysis of the Theology of Quakers
This text represents a major sociological investigation into present day Quakerism in Britain. Its main focus is how belief has become individuated within the group and the consequences of this postmodern condition. It is argued that Quakers in Britain have become post-Christian, and that unity and cohesion are provided by adherence to a behavioural creed, that a liberal belief culture operates alongside a conservative and confromist culture. The…
The religious basis of resistance and non‐response
The reluctance to participate in enquiries about religious belief and practice takes a variety of forms and has a number of bases. This paper draws upon enquiries of belief and behaviour conducted with samples of 692 Quakers and 238 clergy in the Church of England: in both cases a postal questionnaire was followed by selective interviewing. The paper explores the hazards of operating standard designs across a variety of religious tendencies. Resi…
Questioning Quakers
Religion and globalization
Journal Article Religion and globalization Get access Religion and globalization. By Peter Beyer. London: Sage. 1994. 250pp. Index. £37.50; ISBN 0 8039 8916 4. Pb.: £12.95; ISBN 0 8039 8917 2. Pink Dandelion Pink Dandelion Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 70, Issue 4, October 1994, Pages 778–779, https://doi.org/10.2307/2624584 Published: 01 October 1994
Research note
This research note takes Steve Bruce's analysis of secularisation within liberal religious groups and applies it to British Quakerism, noted for its permissiveness towards theology. It contends that Bruce has failed to allow for a conservative 'behavioural creed' operating to maintain conformity and elements of certainty within liberal groups. It also argues that the emphasis on a shared concept of 'towards' or 'perhaps' theology within the group…
Religion and globalization
Journal Article Religion and globalization Get access Religion and globalization. By Peter Beyer. London: Sage. 1994. 250pp. Index. £37.50; ISBN 0 8039 8916 4. Pb.: £12.95; ISBN 0 8039 8917 2. Pink Dandelion Pink Dandelion Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 70, Issue 4, October 1994, Pages 778–779, https://doi.org/10.2307/2624584 Published: 01 October 1994
Those Who Leave and Those Who Feel Left
Unprogrammed Friends (Quakers) in Britain provide an interesting counter-example within the sociology of religion, particularly with regard to their patterns of believing and belonging. Due to its permissive belief patterns and conformist behavioural patterns, the group has been described in terms of a 'double-culture', as a group which behaves as both sect and denomination in alternate spheres of church life. The paper reports on a study of Brit…
Transition as Normative
This article presents a consideration of the ways in which current Quaker belief and practice exemplify the condition identified by Zygmunt Bauman as liquid modernity. After a brief overview of Bauman’s thesis, we describe recent patterns of believing within British Quakerism within its socio-cultural context. While belief has been cast as marginal by scholars of this group, with the creation of habitus centred on behavioural codes or values narr…
Collected Essays of Maurice Creasey, 1912–2004
"Guarded Domesticity and Engagement With "The World
This contribution to a symposium on quietism concerns what is known as the Quietist period of Quakerism in the eighteenth century. Dandelion addresses the key question of conflict between the quietist commitment of the Quaker faithful and the commitment of many among them to abolitionism and other pressing social causes. He reviews the scholarship on this issue, noting the recent tendency to look for mystical aspects to the social commitment of Q…
Religion and globalization
Journal Article Religion and globalization Get access Religion and globalization. By Peter Beyer. London: Sage. 1994. 250pp. Index. £37.50; ISBN 0 8039 8916 4. Pb.: £12.95; ISBN 0 8039 8917 2. Pink Dandelion Pink Dandelion Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 70, Issue 4, October 1994, Pages 778–779, https://doi.org/10.2307/2624584 Published: 01 October 1994
Questioning Quakers
The religious basis of resistance and non‐response
The reluctance to participate in enquiries about religious belief and practice takes a variety of forms and has a number of bases. This paper draws upon enquiries of belief and behaviour conducted with samples of 692 Quakers and 238 clergy in the Church of England: in both cases a postal questionnaire was followed by selective interviewing. The paper explores the hazards of operating standard designs across a variety of religious tendencies. Resi…
A Sociological Analysis of the Theology of Quakers
This text represents a major sociological investigation into present day Quakerism in Britain. Its main focus is how belief has become individuated within the group and the consequences of this postmodern condition. It is argued that Quakers in Britain have become post-Christian, and that unity and cohesion are provided by adherence to a behavioural creed, that a liberal belief culture operates alongside a conservative and confromist culture. The…
Those Who Leave and Those Who Feel Left
Unprogrammed Friends (Quakers) in Britain provide an interesting counter-example within the sociology of religion, particularly with regard to their patterns of believing and belonging. Due to its permissive belief patterns and conformist behavioural patterns, the group has been described in terms of a 'double-culture', as a group which behaves as both sect and denomination in alternate spheres of church life. The paper reports on a study of Brit…
Research note
This research note takes Steve Bruce's analysis of secularisation within liberal religious groups and applies it to British Quakerism, noted for its permissiveness towards theology. It contends that Bruce has failed to allow for a conservative 'behavioural creed' operating to maintain conformity and elements of certainty within liberal groups. It also argues that the emphasis on a shared concept of 'towards' or 'perhaps' theology within the group…
The Quaker condition
Present and Prevented
A questionnaire was sent to all Monthly, Preparative and other Business Meetings and worshipping groups in Britain Yearly Meeting for completion on 7 May 2006. With an over 80 percent response rate meaningful statistics can be calculated for attendance at Meetings for worship, Meetings for business and involvement by Friends and attenders in the business of the Society.1
Comparing Two Surveys of Britain Yearly Meeting
Comparison of postal surveys of Friends in Britain Yearly Meeting in 1990 and 2003 showed modest differences for reported self-descriptions and beliefs. Quakers in 2003 appear to be less pacifist, somewhat less likely to describe God as ‘Spirit’, ‘Inward Light’, or ‘Love’ in absolute percentages, and less likely to describe Jesus as ‘containing that of God within as we all do’. Meeting for Worship was described less as ‘Seeking God’s will’, and m…
‘Choose Life!’ Quaker Metaphor and Modernity
In 2003, Grace Jantzen presented the George Richardson Lecture, the annual international lecture in Quaker studies, entitled 'Choose Life! Early Quaker Women and Violence in Modernity', which was published in Quaker Studies. It was part of her ongoing work on the preoccupation of modernity with death and violence. In the lecture she argued that Margaret Fell and most other early Quaker women encouraged a choice of life over a preoccupation with d…
Present and Prevented, 2006 and 2008
This article gives an interim report of the tripartite longitudinal study within Britain Yearly Meeting on worship and business meeting attendance and on appointments being made within Local and Area Meetings
"Guarded Domesticity and Engagement With "The World
This contribution to a symposium on quietism concerns what is known as the Quietist period of Quakerism in the eighteenth century. Dandelion addresses the key question of conflict between the quietist commitment of the Quaker faithful and the commitment of many among them to abolitionism and other pressing social causes. He reviews the scholarship on this issue, noting the recent tendency to look for mystical aspects to the social commitment of Q…
Introduction
In this introduction to the fourth part of an ongoing symposium on quietism, Perl, the editor of the sponsoring journal Common Knowledge, remarks on a new question raised in this latest grouping of articles. Can there be such a thing as a "mezza voce quietism"? Can there be activist quietists or quietist activists or active teachers of quietism without self-contradiction? Perl takes Gandhi and "passive resistance" as his own test case, concluding…
Collected Essays of Maurice Creasey, 1912–2004
The Oxford handbook of Quaker studies
This volume provides an indispensable reference work for the study of Quakerism. It is global in its perspectives and interdisciplinary in its approach whilst offering the reader a clear narrative through the academic debates. In addition to an in-depth survey of historical readings of Quakerism, the handbook provides a treatment of the group's key theological premises and its links with wider Christian thinking. Quakerism's distinctive ecclesias…
Transition as Normative
This article presents a consideration of the ways in which current Quaker belief and practice exemplify the condition identified by Zygmunt Bauman as liquid modernity. After a brief overview of Bauman’s thesis, we describe recent patterns of believing within British Quakerism within its socio-cultural context. While belief has been cast as marginal by scholars of this group, with the creation of habitus centred on behavioural codes or values narr…
Religion and Youth
Religion, Equalities, and Inequalities
The Cultivation of Conformity
This book explores the inter-relationship between religious groups and wider society and examines the way religious groups change in relation to societal norms, potentially to the point of undergoing processes of ‘internal secularisation’ within secular and secularist cultures. Received sociological wisdom suggests that over time religious groups moderate their claims. This comes with the potential loss of new adherents, for theorists of seculari…
The Cultivation of Conformity
This book explores the inter-relationship between religious groups and wider society and examines the way religious groups change in relation to societal norms, potentially to the point of undergoing processes of 'internal secularisation' within secular and secularist cultures. Received sociological wisdom suggests that over time religious groups moderate their claims. This comes with the potential loss of new adherents, for theorists of seculari…
‘When two or three are gathered’ in a Zoom Room
This research note uses data from surveys of Quaker Meetings in Britain in 2020 to offer reflections into the theology of online worship. It provides both an overview of the changes Meetings made as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic and a discussion of the nature of online worship, including to what extent 'meeting' online is experienced as 'gathered' or 'worship'. It ends by highlighting the longer-term consequences that may result from the t…
Quakers and Host Cultures
This research note focuses on how present-day British Quakers fit into theories of social accommodation that are seen as predictable for religious groups over time. Typically this has been cast in terms of move from a sectarian sensibility to a denominational one. Here I suggest, however, that in a highly secular society, the desire to accommodate can lead to a process of internal secularisation as an internal linguistic coherence becomes develop…
Believing and Belonging in Britain Yearly Meeting
To Live Peaceably Together
This historical monograph chronicles the varying strategies adopted by the Quaker organization, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), to improve the housing opportunities for black families. For almost three decades beginning from the 1940s, the AFSC made cohousing a priority whilst rarely being able to achieve wholesale success. Using the detailed local and national minutes and reports typical of Quaker organizations, Tracey K’Meyer has…
Sociology (20 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (15 works) · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (9 works) · History (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works)