Author: Great Britain. Charity Commission
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Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
Languages : en
Pages : 1204

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Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
Languages : en
Pages : 1490

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Author: Pink Dandelion
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443807168
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 275

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This book focuses primarily on what we have termed the ‘Quaker Condition’. It looks sociologically at the condition of present-day British Quakerism. This original and innovative collection contributes to several different, though obviously connected, fields within the study of religion. It operates on five levels. In the first place, the volume is the first to represent, substantially, the contribution of social science to the study of Quakerism and therefore provides useful comparative material for those whose focus is on other faith groups. Second , the book focuses largely on British Quakerism and so enriches the pool of resources relating to the sociology of British religion and British culture more generally Third , there are very few sociological volumes dedicated to the analysis of a single faith group. Fourth, the book represents an in-depth study of a liberal faith group, when liberal religion is the focus of much scholarly debate at present particularly with reference to the secularisation thesis. The study of British Quakerism is especially fascinating in this regard, given how the group can be described almost as hyper- or ultra-liberal, prefiguring many of the developments which may overtake currently more conservative groups. Fifth, the volume represents a particularly collective way of working of interest to all those concerned with the methodology of social research, with the design and construction of the volume jointly agreed by all the authors. Regular meetings of the group and a conference based on these chapters has culminated in a book far more interwoven and layered than a typical ‘edited collection.’

Author: United States. Internal Revenue Service
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Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
Languages : en
Pages : 1518

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Author: Sarah D. Greer
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Category : Quakers
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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Author: Christine Kinealy
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441133089
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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The Great Irish Famine was one of the most devastating humanitarian disasters of the nineteenth century. In a period of only five years, Ireland lost approximately 25% of its population through a combination of death and emigration. How could such a tragedy have occurred at the heart of the vast, and resource-rich, British Empire? Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland explores this question by focusing on a particular, and lesser-known, aspect of the Famine: that being the extent to which people throughout the world mobilized to provide money, food and clothing to assist the starving Irish. This book considers how, helped by developments in transport and communications, newspapers throughout the world reported on the suffering in Ireland, prompting funds to be raised globally on an unprecedented scale. Donations came from as far away as Australia, China, India and South America and contributors emerged from across the various religious, ethnic, social and gender divides. Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland traces the story of this international aid effort and uses it to reveal previously unconsidered elements in the history of the Famine in Ireland.

Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 674

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Author: Commonwealth Shipping Committee
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Category : Shipping
Languages : en
Pages : 1064

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Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1092

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