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Introduction

Print copies of theses for the Earlham School of Religion are housed with the college's rare book collections. The call number range for ESR theses is Archives LD1741.E4t. Because ESR theses are unique items created by students of the Earlham School of Religion, they are kept in a secure and environmentally controlled environment. A member of the Archives' staff will be happy to assist you if you wish to study them.

ESR Theses

Hope for peace : the gospel message of nonviolence and its application in Africa by Silas Siboe Wanjala
Publication Date: 2012
The impact of Quaker missionaries in Kenya : the work of Emory and Deborah Rees by Rose Adede
Publication Date: 1986
The I of the institution : an American learns Americanism abroad. by Elisabeth Beasley
Publication Date: 2007
A model for conflict transformation : Ubuntu, mediation, and forgiveness by Simon Khayala
Publication Date: 2015
Quakerism and the Isukha culture : the impact of Quakerism on the culture of the Isukha people of Western Kenya by Benson Khamasi Amugamwa
Publication Date: 2008

A study of the Isukha people, a sub-tribe of the Luhya living in Western Kenya (especially in the Kakamega District), and the success of the Society of Friends' missionary work among them beginning in the early 20th century. The author describes how a sizable Quaker community developed among the Luhya, struggling to adapt indigenous customs and beliefs to Quaker ways. The author concludes offering the idea that, due to similarities in culture and beliefs, there might have been early contact between the Bantu people (including the Luhya) and the biblical Israelites residing in Egypt.
Tithing for the development of the African Christian Church : in a Kenyan perspective by Robert Juma Wafula
Publication Date: 1999