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Campus | Haverford |
Semester | Spring 2018 |
Registration ID | RELGH186B001 |
Course Title | Reinventing Quakerism: Rufus Jones, Henry Cadbury, and the Rise of Liberal Quakerism |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Religion |
Instructor | Watt,David Harrington |
Times and Days | TTh 01:00pm-02:30pm
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Room Location | LNKL205 |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2297 Quakerism isn’t stable. It varies from generation to generation. The form of Quakerism that is mostly closely associated with Haverford College today is, for example, quite distinct from the sort of Quakerism that was connected to the college in 1970s. That variety of Quakerism was, in turn, quite distinct from the one that was connected to Haverford a century earlier. Students in the course will examine some of the changes that Quakerism underwent between the 1870s and the 1970s by examining the writings of two Haverfordians: Rufus Jones (1863-1948) and Henry Cadbury (1883-1974). Both men tried to reconcile Quaker traditions with modern life and thought, but they reached markedly different conclusions about what Quakerism had been in the past and about what it should be in the future. Open only to first-year students as assigned by the Director of College Writing. ; Crosslisted: Writing Program, Religion; Enrollment Limit: 12 First Year Writing (FW) |
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