How Ecology, Economics, and Ethics Brought Winstanley and Nitobe to Quakerism

Gerrard Winstanley, the seventeenth-century English leader of the True Levellers, as they called themselves, a Dissenter group better known as the Diggers, and Inazo Nitobe, co-founder of the nineteenth-century Sapporo Band in Japan and Under-Secretary-General of the League of Nations, were both inv...

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Published in:Quaker studies
Main Author: Komashin, Stephanie Midori (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Liverpool University Press [2017]
In: Quaker studies
RelBib Classification:KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KBF British Isles
KBM Asia
KDG Free church
NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics
Further subjects:B Economics
B Gerrard Winstanley
B Japan
B Inazo Nitobe
B Agriculture
B Ecology
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Summary:Gerrard Winstanley, the seventeenth-century English leader of the True Levellers, as they called themselves, a Dissenter group better known as the Diggers, and Inazo Nitobe, co-founder of the nineteenth-century Sapporo Band in Japan and Under-Secretary-General of the League of Nations, were both involved in founding indigenous Christian movements but ultimately joined the Religious Society of Friends. Their views about agricultural ecology, personal financial troubles and ethical commitments led them to Quakerism. Each believed there was no separation of the ethical, spiritual and secular within the experience of nature and ecological cultivation, and shared a commitment to earthcare, sustainable farming, non-violence and ethical living.
ISSN:2397-1770
Contains:Enthalten in: Quaker studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.3828/quaker.2017.22.1.3