Resource Author: Stephen Angell

Stephen W. Angell is the Geraldine C. Leatherock Professor of Religion at the Earlham School of Religion in Richmond, IN, USA. He has published extensively in Quaker Studies and African American Religious History. He is the author of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and African-American Religion in the South (1992) and has co-edited four books, most recently the Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies (2013) with ‘Ben’ Pink Dandelion. In six essays in Quaker Theology, he chronicled a 2013 schism in Indiana Yearly Meeting. He has written on the spirituality of African American Quakers, human rights views of Quaker women in Kenya, and on Quaker missions to and from Japan and China. Steve has had intense interest in the Second Period of Quakerism since writing an M.A. thesis on “Religious Toleration, Truth, and Reason in the Thought of William Penn” (ESR, 1982). He contributed articles on Penn, George Fox, and early Quaker understandings of Colossians to Quaker Studies and has authored “Renegade Oxonian: Samuel Fisher’s Importance in Formulating a Quaker Understanding of Scripture,” forthcoming in Early Quakers and their Theology, another collaborative project with Ben under contract with Cambridge University Press. Steve is a member of the Oxford, Ohio, Quaker meeting.