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Jon R. Kershner, Robynne Rogers Healey and C. Wess Daniels explore the historiography and contemporary fields of Quaker theology and philosophy, history, and the rise of sociology. Developments within Quaker Studies are compared to external sources and tracked over time.
About the author
Jon R. Kershner, Ph.D. (2013, University of Birmingham) is Honorary Researcher in Quaker Studies at Lancaster University. His publications include
John Woolman and the "Government of Christ" A Colonial Quaker's Vision for the British Atlantic World (Oxford University Press, 2018).
C. Wess Daniels, is the William R. Rogers Director of Friends Center and Quaker Studies at Guilford College in Greensboro, NC. His Ph.D. is in Intercultural Studies from Fuller Theological Seminary. He has published widely on renewal, culture and change within the church. His most recent book is titled
A Convergent Model of Renewal: Remixing the Quaker Tradition in a Participatory Culture (Cascade Books, 2015).
Robynne Rogers Healey, Ph.D. (2001), University of Alberta, is professor of history and co-director of the Gender Studies Institute at Trinity Western University in Langley, British Columbia. Her publications include
From Quaker to Upper Canadian: Faith and Community Among Yonge Street Friends, 1801-1850 (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006), and multiple chapters and articles on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century transatlantic Quakerism.
