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This paper focuses on the historical development of ecospirituality, that is, a faith and practice both generating and informed by an appreciation of environmental concerns, among the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain. Decisions made within and by such groups are significantly determined by their understanding of the moral and ethical character of the environment and their relation to it. This ethical and moral character might derive from a variety of sources; in contemporary concerns for the environment it resides primarily in the cultural, economic, and political context of particular social phenomena. Quakers, it would seem, are more or less typical environmentalists in so far as their decision either to buy or refrain from buying this or that item is informed by both moral and religious judgement. The historical trajectory of Quaker consumption is characterised by a principle, plaining, that has enabled Quakers to frame their environmentalism in a more or less unique way. During the first hundred years of the movement (1650-1750), Quakers adopted a system of discipline in which committees (local, regional, and national) imposed upon the membership a strict regime of prescriptions and proscriptions. These lists of dos and don'ts, justified by reference to Biblical and other texts, concerned virtually every aspect of life, and these decisions were informed by specific environmental sensibilities central to Quaker faith and practice. From 1750 to 1950, this intense and intrusive discipline, upheld through group-surveillance, diminished. After 1950, the evolution of the group from a discipline which itemised the plain to the internalisation of individual members of the process of plaining was more or less complete. Discipline was increasingly a matter of self-surveillance. Contemporary Quakers emphasise efficient and effective dissemination of information, particularly relating to issues such as human rights and the environment. This process contributes to the local and national narratives which ...

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