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Product Identifiers
PublisherDover Publications, Incorporated
ISBN-100486210812
ISBN-139780486210810
eBay Product ID (ePID)1016288
Product Key Features
Book TitlePeople Called Shakers : a Search for the Perfect Society
Number of Pages384 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2011
TopicChristianity / Shaker, United States / General
IllustratorYes
GenreReligion, History
AuthorEdward D. Andrews
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight15.4 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.4 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
Table Of ContentTable of ContentsIntroduction I Ann Lee Leads the Way II Opening the Testimony in America III Mission into New England IV Early Shaker Communism V Expansion Westward VI Temporal Labor: Principles and Practice VII Spiritual Labor-Mode of Worship VIII 'Mother Ann's Work IX Internal Order X Relations with the World XI Decline of the Order APPENDICES The Millennial Laws Statistical View of Shaker Communities A Note on Sources Notes Index
Synopsis"A substantial contribution to American history." -- The New York Times. Definitive study provides detailed coverage of origins, ideology, industry and art, mode of worship, internal organization of communities. Author's reliance on original manuscript material, contemporary illustrations make this study especially useful to students of American social and religious movements. 33 illustrations., Definitive study provides detailed coverage of origins, ideology, industry and art, mode of worship, internal organization of communities. Author's reliance on original manuscript material make this study especially useful. 33 illustrations., For 35 years, the author of this book has been a devoted student of the history, beliefs, and ways of The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, better known as the Shakers. Out of his extensive research into manuscripts and primary sources and his conversations with friends in present-day Shaker communities has come a warm, illuminating history, the most thorough ever written on these pious, humble people and the distinct impression they made on American life. The book opens with an introductory assessment of the Shaker contribution to the history of American social experimentation, as seen from the modern point of view. There follows the often amazing story of Ann Lee and the origins of the movement in eighteenth-century England, its emigration to New England, the early Shaker experiments in communism, and the expansion to the American West. The author then pauses to examine in detail the ideology behind the Shaker dedication to physical labor; Shaker industry and design, including a discussion of the spare, utilitarian folk art so popular today; the highly formalized mode of worship, with its lively songs and dances and its often violent emotionalism; strange manifestations during the revival periods of the 1830s and 40s; the rigid internal organization of the Shaker community and its original economic and sociological theories; Shaker relations with the outside world; and the decline of the sect after the Civil War. This edition is the first to include the author's valuable notes, as well as the original appendixes containing the complete text of the Millennial Laws, a statistical breakdown of all the Shaker communities, and a bibliography. This material is especially useful to students of American social and religious movements, but the author's reliance upon original manuscript material and contemporary illustrations lend this book an exciting immediacy that makes it a pleasure for all readers interested in fascinating people and unique ways of life. -An excellent history of one of the most interesting of American religious cults.- -- Nation. -Satisfies the exacting standards of historical scholarship and promises at the same time to enlighten and hold the interest of the general reader.- -- Saturday Review. -A substantial contribution to American history.- -- The New York Times., "A substantial contribution to American history." -- The New York Times. Definitive study provides detailed coverage of origins, ideology, industry and art, mode of worship, internal organization of communities. Author's reliance on original manuscript material, contemporary illustrations make this study especially useful to students of American social and religious movements. 33 illustrations.Reprint of the original, 1953 edition.
