Qualitative studyOne focal Quaker community; six recorded Quaker Dialogues alongside wider fieldwork
Religion, ritual and shared silence
How communities teach people to recognise and name their experience, and how a group can keep silence together.
1 work from this field, lit on the map
Moves it sheds light on
Our reading. None of these fields tests a move inside a circle.
Studies ritual and shared silence as something a group does together.
Shows that what people notice and name is partly taught by their community, so what a circle reveals is shaped by its vocabulary.
In the catalogue
- Making Silence Together: Collaboration in the Silent Gatherings of Quakers