Friendly Connections
Philadelphia Quakers and Japan since the Late Nineteenth Century
Linda H Chance editor Paul B Reagan editor Tetsuko Toda editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:8th Jan '24
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Friendly Connections: Philadelphia Quakers and Japan since the Late Nineteenth Century discloses the history of relations among members of the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers, of Philadelphia and Japanese intellectuals, educators, and activists. In this book, Japanese and North American experts demonstrate that education, women’s rights, interracial equality, politics, disaster relief, reform, and peace efforts have all benefited. Seventeen chapters detail this underappreciated history. Throughout the modern era, these ties, often between women, have transformed efforts for peace, equality, and women’s rights in Japan and the United States. With a focus on “women’s work for women,” and revelations about supportive British Quakers, this book uncovers networks that sustained Japan-America ties for a century and a half.
This book reads like a Who’s Who of Philadelphia–Japan Quaker catalysts of change, with abundant photographs depicting women piloting the Japan initiative… In its layered weavings, Friendly Connections provides clear contexts for the thinking and deeds of its subjects whose continuing revelation affirmed Quakerism in modern Japan. * Friends Journal *
This book is so valuable; it moves the central focus of Quaker studies beyond an Anglo-American emphasis, highlights the role of women, and breaks new scholarly ground in a compelling way. The authors and editors are to be congratulated for such fine work. -- Ben Pink Dandelion, University of Birmingham
This excellent collection of essays gathers an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars from Japan and the United States to explore the partnerships that developed between Philadelphian and Japanese Quakers from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Strongly researched and clearly written, Friendly Connections offers important insights into this special relationship at the same time as it opens the door for further study. -- Robynne Rogers Healey, Trinity Western University
ISBN: 9781793623331
Dimensions: 237mm x 161mm x 27mm
Weight: 667g
372 pages