Battle Creek Spiritualist - Quaker Ranter https://www.quakerranter.org A Weekly Newsletter and Blog from Martin Kelley Thu, 17 Jan 2019 03:19:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/www.quakerranter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/cropped-qr-512.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Battle Creek Spiritualist - Quaker Ranter https://www.quakerranter.org 32 32 16720591 The rise and fall of Harmonia, Battle Creek’s Spiritualist utopia https://www.quakerranter.org/the-rise-and-fall-of-harmonia-battle-creeks-spiritualist-utopia/ https://www.quakerranter.org/the-rise-and-fall-of-harmonia-battle-creeks-spiritualist-utopia/#respond Thu, 17 Jan 2019 03:19:23 +0000 https://www.quakerranter.org/?p=61666 A nice profile on a Quaker community in Michigan that went full-in in Spiritualism:

As they came west, a number brought Spiritualism with them. A lot of liberal Quakers were very interested in Spiritualism. Battle Creek had a Quaker base, they predominated for a while. They converted to Spiritualism as a body, and Battle Creek became this southwest Michigan center for Spiritualism.

Quakera were among many of rhe early leaders of the Spiritualist movement; while it eventually mostly burned out, a lot of the ideas about authority and spiritual diversity in turn influenced Hicksite Friends.

https://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/story/life/2019/01/16/rise-and-fall-harmonia-battle-creeks-spiritualist-utopia/2214809002/?fbclid=IwAR2veCNZVtIzlqSkaLs152yCp0x3vjiJvmil3TBBbfOk95P0eGPYjKSrmmU

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