Quakers

===Relations with other faiths===
Relationships between Quakers and non-Christians vary considerably, according to sect, geography, and history.

Early Quakers distanced themselves from practices that they saw as [[Paganism|pagan]]. For instance, they refused to use the usual names of the days of the week, since they were derived from the names of pagan deities.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Yount |first=David |title=How the Quakers invented America |year=2007 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc |isbn=978-0-7425-5833-5 |page=11}}</ref> They refused to celebrate [[Christmas]] because they believed it was based on pagan festivities.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Frost |first=Jerry William |title=The Quaker family in colonial America: a social history of the Society of Friends, Volume 2 |year=1968 |publisher=University of Wisconsin |location=Madison, Wisconsin |page=436}}</ref>

Early Friends called on adherents of other world religions to turn to the 'Light of Christ within' that they believed was present in all people born into the world.<ref>For example, George Fox, ''Turcae, et omnibus sub ejus ditione, ut hoc perlegant quod ad salvationem eorum spectat'' (1660), pp. 10, 11, 13; cf. John 1:9)</ref> For example, George Fox wrote a number of open letters to [[Jew]]s and [[Muslim]]s, in which he encouraged them to turn to Jesus Christ as the only path to salvation (e.g. ''A Visitation to the Jews'',<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fox |first=George |title=A Visitation to the Jews. From Them Whom The Lord Hath Visited From on High, Among Whom He Hath Performed His Promise Made To Abraham, Isaac, And Jacob. The Mighty Day of the Lord Is Come, And Coming, Who Dwells Not in Temples Made With Hands, Nor Is He Worshipped With Men's Hands, But in the Spirit, From Whom The Scripture Was Given Forth |url=http://dqc.esr.earlham.edu:8080/xmlmm/docButtonB?XMLMMWhat=builtPageCorpusToc&XMLMMWhere=E12877488D-005&XMLMMBeanName=docBean&XMLMMNextPage=/tocPrintBuiltPageBrowse.jsp |work=Works of George Fox}}</ref> ''To the Great Turk and King of Algiers in Algeria, and all that are under his authority, to read this over, which concerns their salvation''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Fox |first=George |title=The Works of George Fox: Gospel truth demonstrated, in a collection of doctrinal books, given forth by that faithful minister of Jesus Christ, George Fox: containing principles essential to Christianity and salvation, held among the people called Quakers |year=1821 |publisher=Marcus T. C. Gould |pages=216–221 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wuEYAAAAYAAJ |chapter=To the Great Turk and King of Algiers in Algeria, and all that are under his Authority, to read this over, which concerns their Salvation}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Fox |first=George |title=To the Great Turk and King of Algiers in Algeria, And All That Are Under His Authority, To Read This Over, Which Concerns Their Salvation (in: "Works of George Fox" (volume 4) |url=http://dqc.esr.earlham.edu:8080/xmlmm/docButtonB?XMLMMWhat=builtPage&XMLMMWhere=E12877488D-023.P00000215-UN&XMLMMBeanName=docBean&XMLMMNextPage=/printBuiltPageBrowse.jsp}}</ref> and ''To the Great Turk and King of Algiers in Algeria'').<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fox |first=George |title=To The Great Turk And King at Algiers in Algeria |url=http://dqc.esr.earlham.edu:8080/xmlmm/docButtonB?XMLMMWhat=builtPageCorpusToc&XMLMMWhere=E12877488F-003&XMLMMBeanName=docBean&XMLMMNextPage=/tocPrintBuiltPageBrowse.jsp|work=Works of George Fox (volume 6)}}</ref> In the letters to Muslim readers, Fox is exceptional for his time in his sympathetic and wide-ranging use of the [[Qur'an]], and his belief that its contents were consistent with Christian scripture.<ref>Matar, Nabil. 1989. 'Some Notes on George Fox and Islam'. ''Journal of the Friends' Historical Society'' 55: 271–76</ref><ref>Meggitt, Justin J. 2016. 'Islam and Christianity in the Works of George Fox'. In ''Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 8. Northern and Eastern Europe (1600–1700)'', edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth, 527–34. Leiden: Brill.</ref>

[[Mary Fisher (missionary)|Mary Fisher]] probably preached the same message when she appeared before the Muslim [[Mehmed IV]] (the Sultan of the [[Ottoman Empire]]) in 1658.<ref>{{cite book|last = Meggitt|first= Justin J.|date=2016|chapter=Mary Fisher|title =Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History|volume =8. Northern and Eastern Europe (1600–1700)|editor1-first=David|editor1-last= Thomas |editor2-first= John|editor2-last= Chesworth|pages= 367–74|location= Leiden|publisher = Brill|isbn=9789004326637}}</ref>

In 1870, Richard Price Hallowell argued that the logical extension of Christian Quakerism is a universal Church, which "demands a religion which embraces Jew, Pagan and Christian, and which cannot be limited by the dogmas of one or the other".<ref name=Hollowell1870/>

Since the late 20th century, some attenders at Liberal Quaker Meetings have actively identified with world faiths other than Christianity, such as [[Judaism]], [[Islam]],<ref name=makingmuslimquaker/> [[Buddhism]]<ref name=mindfulquaker/> and [[Paganism (contemporary)|Paganism]].