| Description |
xvi, 351 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Ann Lee leads the way -- Opening the testimony in America -- Mission into New England -- Early Shaker communism -- Expansion westward -- Temporal labor, principles and practice -- Spiritual labor, mode of worship -- 'Mother Ann's work' -- Internal order -- Relations with the world -- Decline of the Order -- Appendices. The millennial laws -- Statistical view of the Shaker communities -- A note on sources |
| Summary |
Studies the history of the Shakers in America and their cultural influence |
| Analysis |
Shakers History |
| Notes |
"T1081." |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 293-297 |
| Subject |
Shakers -- History.
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Shakers.
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History.
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Religion and Medicine.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Church history.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139926
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United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
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United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
| LC no. |
63017896 |
| ISBN |
0486210812 |
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