ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the aspects from the case study, the Quakers. Quakers is an old-fashioned sect devoted to very Christian Protestant, neo-Puritan principles of moral probity, conscientious work and selflessness, typically characterized by plain dress and visually caricatured as the jovial man in the black hat depicted on a box of Quaker Porridge Oats. Modern Quakers continue to profess their belief in a personally defined, collectively achieved Inner Light'; they adhere to a message of tolerance yet mobilize against social injustice. In the fragment of contemporary belief, the liberal humanist essence of Quaker faith and practice emerging, a form of religious thought that can be most clearly described as post-Christian in its emphasis on the self. Queer Quakers have renegotiated their sexualities and their spiritualities in tandem, utilizing a range of strategies apprehended from the public and private spheres, constructing narratives of selfhood that were perceived to be mutually enhancing inter-subjectivities.
