Jon R. Kershner - QUAKERS AND MYSTICISM: comparative and syncretic approaches to spirituality

is the Leatherock Professor of Quaker Studies at the Earlham School of Religion in Richmond, Indiana, USA. He is the author and editor of numerous books and articles in the fields of Quaker Studies and African American Religious Studies. His most recent book, coedited with Pink Dandelion, is the Cambridge Companion to Quakerism (2018). He has also edited (together with Harold D. Weaver Jr. and Paul Kriese) Black Fire: African American Quakers on Spirituality and Human Rights (2011).

(Earlham School of Religion, USA) has written A Near Sympathy: The Timeless Quaker Wisdom of John Woolman (2003), Silence and Witness: Quaker Spirituality (2004), Engaging Scripture: Encountering the Bible with Early Friends (2005), (with Jeff Bach) Genius of the Transcendent: Mystical Writings of Jakob Boehme (2010), Quran in Conversation (2014), and Quakers Reading Mystics (2018). He has translated Robert Barclays Christianae quaedam animadversiones (2012) and has contributed to the Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies (2013), Contemplative Literature: A Comparative Sourcebook (2015), Early Quakers and Their Theological Thought: 16471723 (2016), and The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism (2018).

holds a PhD from Boston College and is Associate Professor of Christology and Cultures at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University. His books include Theodore the Studite: Writings on Iconoclasm (Paulist Press, 2014) as well as the edited collections Perceiving the Divine Through the Human Body: Mystical Sensuality (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), and Depth Psychology and Mysticism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). Cattoi is coeditor of the journal Buddhist-Christian Studies and is a licensed psychotherapist (LMFT) in the state of California.

is Adjunct Professor of Spiritual Formation at Portland Seminary of George Fox University. She holds a PhD in Theology from the University of Birmingham (UK). Her publications include Holiness: The Soul of Quakerism: An Historical Analysis of the Theology of Holiness in the Quaker Tradition , and she has authored many articles in Quaker Religious Thought, Quaker History , and Quaker Studies , and chapters in edited collections on Quaker history and theology.

teaches in the Religion department at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA. He earned a PhD in Theology from the University of Birmingham (UK) in 2013. His books include John Woolman and the Government of Christ: A Colonial Quakers Vision for the British Atlantic World (2018), To Renew the Covenant: Religious Themes in Eighteenth Century Quaker Abolitionism (2018) and a coauthored Quaker Studies: An Overview (2018). His articles have appeared in several academic journals, including Quaker Studies , Quaker Religious Thought , and Quaker History . He has also written chapters for