The Quaker Condition: The Sociology of a Liberal Religion Hardcover - 2008

Pink Dandelion directs the work of the Centre for Postgraduate Quaker Studies, Woodbrooke and the University of Birmingham. He edits Quaker Studies and acts as Series Editor for the Edwin Mellen series in Quaker Studies. His books include The Quakers: a very short introduction (2008), (with Jackie Leach Scully) Good and Evil: Quaker perspectives (2007), Introduction to Quakerism (2007), The Liturgies of Quakerism (2005), The Creation of Quaker Theory (2004), the co-authored Towards Tragedy/Reclaiming Hope (2004) and The Sociological Analysis of the Theology of Quakers: the silent revolution (1996). Peter Collins teaches Anthropology at Durham University. His interests include religion, aesthetics, space and place, and qualitative methodology. He has recently co-edited Locating the Field: space place and context in anthropology (Berg, 2006), with Simon Coleman; Reading Religion in Text and Context: reflections of faith and practice in religious materials (Ashgate 2006), with Elisabeth Arweck; and Religion, Identity and Change: perspectives on global transformations (ed.). Ashgate (2004), with Simon Coleman. He is preparing Continuity and Change: Bolton Quakers 1650-1990 (Edwin Mellen) for publication and Keeping an Open 'I': memory and experience as resources in ethnography (co-edited with Anselma Gallinat) is in press.