RT Article
T1 The Quakers: LGBTIQ+ Activism and Institutional Cohesion
JF Journal for the academic study of religion
VO 34
IS 2
SP 180
OP 202
A1 Boland, Joshua
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1796363952
AB Liberal Quakerism’s engagement with the public sphere acts as a mechanism for producing social solidarity within the movement. This argument is demonstrated through an examination of Quaker engagement with Queer social issues in the UK, US and Australia. The social activism of Quakers sustains their identity as a liberal religious organisation sympathetic to progressive causes and nurtures a sense of common purpose within the movement that subsumes internal differences. It is argued that, while Quaker orthopraxis within the Society binds internal diversity together, this can also include Friends’ activist engagement with the secular world. This focus on the dialectical relationship between Quakerism’s internal culture and external social processes suggest that a dynamic relationship exists between contemporary secularism and liberal religious groups.
K1 Quakerism
K1 Religious Society of Friends
K1 Same-sex marriage
K1 Social Activism
K1 Symbolism
DO 10.1558/jasr.20746