| Book Review | Indiana Magazine of History, 101.2

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The Quakers in America

By Thomas D. Hamm

(New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 293. Illustrations, chronology, glossary, notes, resources for further study, index. $40.00.)

The Society of Friends, or Quakers, has long attracted the attention of scholars and activists, particularly at times of social stress or crisis when their Friendly determination to stand against the dominant society has made their witness relevant to contemporary concerns. Since the end of the Vietnam era, issues such as conscientious objection have become less urgent, and the Quakers, together with the Amish and Mennonites, have fallen into sectarian obscurity. Their philosophy is viewed as possessing little pertinence to the major social issues of the day, despite the ongoing toll which violence takes in our turbulent world.

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