Quaker Meeting
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Quaker Meeting may refer to:
- Monthly meetingMonthly meetingMonthly Meetings are, traditionally, the basic unit of administration in the Religious Society of Friends .For some Friends a Monthly Meeting is a single Meeting , while for others it is a grouping of Meetings which come together for administrative purposes. Membership in the Religious Society of...
(or Area meeting in the UK), the basic organisational unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) - Preparative meeting (or Preparatory meeting; Local meeting in the UK), a common basic local worship group in the Religious Society of FriendsReligious Society of FriendsThe Religious Society of Friends, or Friends Church, is a Christian movement which stresses the doctrine of the priesthood of all believers. Members are known as Friends, or popularly as Quakers. It is made of independent organisations, which have split from one another due to doctrinal differences...
- Meeting for worshipMeeting for worshipA meeting for worship is a practice of the Religious Society of Friends in many ways comparable to a church service. These services have a wide variety of forms, creating a spectrum from typical Protestant liturgy to silent waiting for the Spirit .A Meeting for Worship may start with a query;...
, a Quaker religious practice somewhat akin to a church service - Quaker Meeting (child's game)Quaker Meeting (child's game)Quaker Meeting, or "Quaker's Meeting", is a child's game which is initiated with a rhyme and becomes a sort of quiet game where the participants may not speak, laugh, or smile...
, a children's game - Quaker Meeting HouseFriends meeting houseA Friends meeting house is a meeting house of the Religious Society of Friends , where meeting for worship may be held.-History:Quakers do not believe that meeting for worship should take place in any special place. They believe that "where two or three meet together in my name, I am there among...
, where Quaker Meetings for worship often take place