Stephen W Angell
Biographic Data
| ID | 954478 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen W Angell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen W |
| FAMILY NAME | Angell |
| SIGNATURE | ANGELL S W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Earlham School of Religion, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
George Fox’s Great Mistery and the New England Returnees
This article focuses on the anti-Quaker critiques of three Puritan ministers returned from New England (Francis Higginson, Jr., Thomas Weld, and Samuel Eaton), as well as the response by George Fox in his 1659 work, The Great Mistery, and in other works. It identifies two areas in which these Puritans, because of their American experiences, made a contribution to sharpening debates over Quakerism in ways different from other Puritans: first, high…
Citizen George. Directed by GlennHolston; Produced by Natalie Valentine. Oley, PA
The author of this review has known George Lakey for about 50 years. The author declares no conflicts of interest. The author has nothing to report
Research note
Reflecting on two research notes in this editionof Quaker Studies, this conversation piece considers the commonalitiesbetween them and what they tell us about the direction of future research. Thecontent of each note concerns Quakerism in a local context – examining specificcivic, parochial, and educational debates in the East of England – suggesting aneed to write Quaker history in a plural fashion. Both authors equally reflect,however, on the m…
Quakerism in the Atlantic World, 1690–1830
Douglas Steere and Elton Trueblood as Interpreters of John Woolman
Douglas V. Steere and D. Elton Trueblood were among the most influential Quaker voices in the middle decades of the twentieth century among liberal and evangelical Friends, respectively. Each turned to John Woolman’s writings as inspiration for the needs of their times, from matters of spirituality and moral example to social justice and ecumenism. This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/…
Sarah Mapps Douglass and Sojourner Truth
The lives and witness of Black American Quaker women are far too little known, both in academic scholarship and in the broader society. Through fine-grained comparison and contrast of the lives of two nineteenth-century Black Quaker women, Sojourner Truth—closely associated with Progressive Friends—and Sarah Mapps Douglass—closely associated with Orthodox Friends—this essay partially remedies that lack, while deeply rooting both women firmly in t…
Dennis C. Dickerson. The African Methodist Episcopal Church
In the long and storied history of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, there have been many excellent historical surveys of the denomination, starting with Daniel Alexander Payne’s History of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (1891). But the volume under review, The African Methodist Episcopal Church: A History by Dennis C. Dickerson, is by far the best of them all. In clear and engaging prose, bolstered by superlative in-depth res…
Leaving Father or Mother for Christ’s Sake
This article examines Penn’s attitudes toward family as displayed in two books (Innocency with Her Open Face Presented and No Cross, No Crown) that he wrote in 1669 while incarcerated in the Tower of London. The examination of Penn’s use of certain biblical references printed in the margins (Mt. 10:37; Mt. 19:29) suggests that Penn used these to create a layered text (similar to twenty-first-century hypertext) that helped to communicate in a veil…
Judith Weisenfeld. New World A-Coming
Children of Lucifer
This is a thought-provoking treatment of a movement that has captured the attention of scholars and laypeople alike. Its chronological scope is wide, beginning with a chapter on “The Christian invention of Satanism” (actually, Van Luijk looks briefly at pre-Christian roots of the figure called Satan) up to the twenty-first century. He defines Satanism as “religiously motivated veneration of Satan” (not, e.g., admiration of Satan as one deity or s…
Langston's Salvation
This is a careful, subtle, and insightful study of the religious relationships of Langston Hughes, one of the most important African American literary figures of the first two-thirds of the twentieth century. Wallace D. Best closely interrogates the usual depiction of Hughes as an atheist or as antireligious and finds such portrayals gravely wanting. A shift in religious attitudes among the African American cultural elite in the early twentieth c…
Roundtable
Louis Venters. No Jim Crow Church
The Bahá’í Faith, intended by its founder Bahá’u’lláh and his successors to reach all peoples and to bind them into “an organic, interdependent global commonwealth” (2), confronted an enormous structural barrier of racism in the U.S. This book, while centered on the story of South Carolina’s Bahá’í community, analyzes the many constructive avenues that Bahá’ís in the U.S. undertook to address the challenges posed by racism. This is the story of t…
An Early Version of George Fox’s ‘Letter to the Governor of Barbados’
This essay explores the textual history and history of the ‘Letter to the Governor of Barbados’, referred to in its earliest published version (1672) as ‘For the Governour and his Council and Assembly’. Most publications of this letter are based on the version of this letter in Thomas Ellwood’s 1694 edition of Fox’s Journal. The fuller, more defiantly polemical, more strongly Quaker, and less ecumenical version reproduced below was the only text …
Richard Farnworth, Samuel Fisher, and the Authority of Scripture Among Early Quakers
This essay traces the development of Quaker doctrines of Scriptural authority, concentrating on the years between 1653 and 1662. Utilizing controversies conducted by Richard Farnworth and Samuel Fisher with a series of non-Quaker critics, this study focuses on four areas: the possible status of Quaker epistles as revelation; whether the Bible, for Quakers, was human words, or God’s words, or both; Quaker views of the Scriptural canon; and Quaker …
The Shadows of the Evening Stretched Out”
Richard Robinson was an important and neglected figure in the early history of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. The AME Church's success in its first forty-six years of existence should be attributed partly to Robinson's wise, patient, and steady long-term leadership. This study examines his conversion and call to the ministry. It closely analyzes his interest in transnational ministry, especially his mission work in Haiti. In addition, it…
Race Patriotism
E. Franklin Frazier identified the African American Church as a “nation within a nation,” and now Julius H. Bailey explores what professions of allegiance to such a body entail, mostly confining his discussion to the nineteenth-century African Methodist Episcopal (ame) Church (E. Franklin Frazier, The Negro Church in America, 1964, p. 49). Using an examination of the extensive print culture of the ame Church as his springboard, Bailey proceeds to…
William Penn’s Debts to John Owen and Moses Amyraut on Questions of Truth, Grace, and Religious Toleration
William Penn studied at Oxford University and at Saumur at a time when two giants in the field of theology and statesmanship among Reformed Protestants, namely, John Owen and Moses Amyraut, were alive. This essay seeks to work toward a comparative and contrastive assessment of the influences of both Amyraut and Owen upon the young Penn and particularly with questions of truth, grace, and responses to religious pluralism in the thought of these th…
Tell Them We Are Singing for Jesus
Starting in 1871, the Fisk University Jubilee Singers played an important role in American history in several respects. They pioneered the concert performance of African American spirituals, bringing a then-controversial but later widely beloved body of music to wide public consciousness; Mark Twain was among their earliest boosters. They were successful fund-raisers, ensuring the survival of Fisk University and aiding the construction of college…
Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans
UnAfrican Americans
Though many scholars will acknowledge the Anglo-Saxon character of black American nationalism, few have dealt with the imperialistic ramifications of this connection. Now, Nigerian-born scholar Tunde Adeleke reexamines nineteenth-century black American nationalism, finding not only that it embodied the racist and paternalistic values of Euro-American culture but also that nationalism played an active role in justifying Europe's intrusion into Afr…
A Mighty Baptism
Journal Article A Mighty Baptism: Race, Gender, and the Creation of American Protestantism. Ed. by Susan Juster and Lisa MacFarlane Ithaca and Peculiar Power: A Quaker Woman Preacher in Eighteenth-Century America. By Cristine Levenduski Washington Get access Stephen W. Angell Stephen W. Angell Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 8…
Sparks from the Anvil of Oppression
Journal Article Sparks from the Anvil of Oppression: Philadelphia's African Methodists and Southern Migrants, 1890–1940. By Robert Gregg. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993. xvi, 272 pp. $39.95, ISBN 1-56639-063-X.) Get access Stephen W. Angell Stephen W. Angell Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 4, March 1995…
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Sparks from the Anvil of Oppression
Journal Article Sparks from the Anvil of Oppression: Philadelphia's African Methodists and Southern Migrants, 1890–1940. By Robert Gregg. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993. xvi, 272 pp. $39.95, ISBN 1-56639-063-X.) Get access Stephen W. Angell Stephen W. Angell Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 4, March 1995…
A Mighty Baptism
Journal Article A Mighty Baptism: Race, Gender, and the Creation of American Protestantism. Ed. by Susan Juster and Lisa MacFarlane Ithaca and Peculiar Power: A Quaker Woman Preacher in Eighteenth-Century America. By Cristine Levenduski Washington Get access Stephen W. Angell Stephen W. Angell Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 8…
UnAfrican Americans
Though many scholars will acknowledge the Anglo-Saxon character of black American nationalism, few have dealt with the imperialistic ramifications of this connection. Now, Nigerian-born scholar Tunde Adeleke reexamines nineteenth-century black American nationalism, finding not only that it embodied the racist and paternalistic values of Euro-American culture but also that nationalism played an active role in justifying Europe's intrusion into Afr…
Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans
Tell Them We Are Singing for Jesus
Starting in 1871, the Fisk University Jubilee Singers played an important role in American history in several respects. They pioneered the concert performance of African American spirituals, bringing a then-controversial but later widely beloved body of music to wide public consciousness; Mark Twain was among their earliest boosters. They were successful fund-raisers, ensuring the survival of Fisk University and aiding the construction of college…
William Penn’s Debts to John Owen and Moses Amyraut on Questions of Truth, Grace, and Religious Toleration
William Penn studied at Oxford University and at Saumur at a time when two giants in the field of theology and statesmanship among Reformed Protestants, namely, John Owen and Moses Amyraut, were alive. This essay seeks to work toward a comparative and contrastive assessment of the influences of both Amyraut and Owen upon the young Penn and particularly with questions of truth, grace, and responses to religious pluralism in the thought of these th…
Race Patriotism
E. Franklin Frazier identified the African American Church as a “nation within a nation,” and now Julius H. Bailey explores what professions of allegiance to such a body entail, mostly confining his discussion to the nineteenth-century African Methodist Episcopal (ame) Church (E. Franklin Frazier, The Negro Church in America, 1964, p. 49). Using an examination of the extensive print culture of the ame Church as his springboard, Bailey proceeds to…
An Early Version of George Fox’s ‘Letter to the Governor of Barbados’
This essay explores the textual history and history of the ‘Letter to the Governor of Barbados’, referred to in its earliest published version (1672) as ‘For the Governour and his Council and Assembly’. Most publications of this letter are based on the version of this letter in Thomas Ellwood’s 1694 edition of Fox’s Journal. The fuller, more defiantly polemical, more strongly Quaker, and less ecumenical version reproduced below was the only text …
Richard Farnworth, Samuel Fisher, and the Authority of Scripture Among Early Quakers
This essay traces the development of Quaker doctrines of Scriptural authority, concentrating on the years between 1653 and 1662. Utilizing controversies conducted by Richard Farnworth and Samuel Fisher with a series of non-Quaker critics, this study focuses on four areas: the possible status of Quaker epistles as revelation; whether the Bible, for Quakers, was human words, or God’s words, or both; Quaker views of the Scriptural canon; and Quaker …
The Shadows of the Evening Stretched Out”
Richard Robinson was an important and neglected figure in the early history of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. The AME Church's success in its first forty-six years of existence should be attributed partly to Robinson's wise, patient, and steady long-term leadership. This study examines his conversion and call to the ministry. It closely analyzes his interest in transnational ministry, especially his mission work in Haiti. In addition, it…
Roundtable
Louis Venters. No Jim Crow Church
The Bahá’í Faith, intended by its founder Bahá’u’lláh and his successors to reach all peoples and to bind them into “an organic, interdependent global commonwealth” (2), confronted an enormous structural barrier of racism in the U.S. This book, while centered on the story of South Carolina’s Bahá’í community, analyzes the many constructive avenues that Bahá’ís in the U.S. undertook to address the challenges posed by racism. This is the story of t…
Judith Weisenfeld. New World A-Coming
Children of Lucifer
This is a thought-provoking treatment of a movement that has captured the attention of scholars and laypeople alike. Its chronological scope is wide, beginning with a chapter on “The Christian invention of Satanism” (actually, Van Luijk looks briefly at pre-Christian roots of the figure called Satan) up to the twenty-first century. He defines Satanism as “religiously motivated veneration of Satan” (not, e.g., admiration of Satan as one deity or s…
Langston's Salvation
This is a careful, subtle, and insightful study of the religious relationships of Langston Hughes, one of the most important African American literary figures of the first two-thirds of the twentieth century. Wallace D. Best closely interrogates the usual depiction of Hughes as an atheist or as antireligious and finds such portrayals gravely wanting. A shift in religious attitudes among the African American cultural elite in the early twentieth c…
Leaving Father or Mother for Christ’s Sake
This article examines Penn’s attitudes toward family as displayed in two books (Innocency with Her Open Face Presented and No Cross, No Crown) that he wrote in 1669 while incarcerated in the Tower of London. The examination of Penn’s use of certain biblical references printed in the margins (Mt. 10:37; Mt. 19:29) suggests that Penn used these to create a layered text (similar to twenty-first-century hypertext) that helped to communicate in a veil…
Dennis C. Dickerson. The African Methodist Episcopal Church
In the long and storied history of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, there have been many excellent historical surveys of the denomination, starting with Daniel Alexander Payne’s History of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (1891). But the volume under review, The African Methodist Episcopal Church: A History by Dennis C. Dickerson, is by far the best of them all. In clear and engaging prose, bolstered by superlative in-depth res…
Douglas Steere and Elton Trueblood as Interpreters of John Woolman
Douglas V. Steere and D. Elton Trueblood were among the most influential Quaker voices in the middle decades of the twentieth century among liberal and evangelical Friends, respectively. Each turned to John Woolman’s writings as inspiration for the needs of their times, from matters of spirituality and moral example to social justice and ecumenism. This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/…
Sarah Mapps Douglass and Sojourner Truth
The lives and witness of Black American Quaker women are far too little known, both in academic scholarship and in the broader society. Through fine-grained comparison and contrast of the lives of two nineteenth-century Black Quaker women, Sojourner Truth—closely associated with Progressive Friends—and Sarah Mapps Douglass—closely associated with Orthodox Friends—this essay partially remedies that lack, while deeply rooting both women firmly in t…
Research note
Reflecting on two research notes in this editionof Quaker Studies, this conversation piece considers the commonalitiesbetween them and what they tell us about the direction of future research. Thecontent of each note concerns Quakerism in a local context – examining specificcivic, parochial, and educational debates in the East of England – suggesting aneed to write Quaker history in a plural fashion. Both authors equally reflect,however, on the m…
Quakerism in the Atlantic World, 1690–1830
George Fox’s Great Mistery and the New England Returnees
This article focuses on the anti-Quaker critiques of three Puritan ministers returned from New England (Francis Higginson, Jr., Thomas Weld, and Samuel Eaton), as well as the response by George Fox in his 1659 work, The Great Mistery, and in other works. It identifies two areas in which these Puritans, because of their American experiences, made a contribution to sharpening debates over Quakerism in ways different from other Puritans: first, high…
Citizen George. Directed by GlennHolston; Produced by Natalie Valentine. Oley, PA
The author of this review has known George Lakey for about 50 years. The author declares no conflicts of interest. The author has nothing to report
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