Quakerism (Religious Society of Friends)

Denomination·Founded 1652 CE

Judaism → Christianity → Catholicism → Protestantism → Quakerism (Religious Society of Friends) → 1 branch

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Core tenet of Quakerism (Religious Society of Friends)

Worship is expectant silence.

No liturgy, no pulpit: Friends sit until the Spirit gives someone words worth breaking silence for.

Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held

Unprogrammed Quaker worship is an hour of shared silence in which anyone may speak if they feel genuinely moved, and often no one does. The discipline is corporate rather than private: the silence is understood to be listening together. Programmed Quaker meetings, common in parts of the United States and much of Kenya, have pastors and hymns, and the divergence between the two is the tradition's main structural split.

The same ground, other faiths

claims that share this one's ideas
The Jesus Prayer. Christianity · rite Go deeper →
Dhikr — remembrance. Islam · rite Go deeper →
Dhikr — the remembrance circle. Sufism · rite Go deeper →
The Book of Lamentations — the Narek. The Armenian Apostolic Church · scripture Open the book →
Sound rightly spoken has power. Vedic Religion Go deeper →
Samadhi — union in stillness. Hinduism · the interior Go deeper →

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