Shakers category: 12 books
by Stephen J. Paterwic
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, commonly known as the Shakers, followed Mother Ann Lee to the United States in 1774 when life in England became difficult. In the United States, they established several colonies whose governing principals included celibacy and agrarian...
Restoring Shakertown
The Struggle to Save the Historic Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Mother Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers, articulated a vision of a community that embraced sacrifice over the needs of the individual; the result was one of the most successful utopian experiments of nineteenth-century America. The Shakers, an idealistic offshoot of the ascetic Quaker religion, grew...
by Cheryl Bauer
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2007
Founded in 1805, Union Village began as a religious and communal experiment. Eventually it became one of America's largest and most productive Shaker communities, its members achieving many firsts in education, equality, music, horticulture, and animal husbandry. Their unique faith influenced every aspect...
by Flo Morse
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Featuring a new introduction, a compassionate look at a religious movement that shaped America
“Put your hands to work and your hearts to God,” Mother Ann Lee told her spiritual children more than 200 years ago. Today, as the number of Shakers has dwindled to only a handful, the story of...
by Stephen J. Paterwic
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
“Shakerism teaches God’s immanence through the common life shared in Christ’s mystical body.” Like many religious seekers throughout the ages, they honor the revelation of God but cannot be bound up in an unchanging set of dogmas or creeds. Freeing themselves from domination by the state religion,...
by Edward D. Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
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...
Richard McNemar, Music, and the Western Shaker Communities
Branches of One Living Tree
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A pioneering study of the Shaker west’s opening generation and an analytical reconstruction of the first Ohio Shaker hymnal
The arrival of the Shakers in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana in the decades after 1805 saw a substantial escalation in the movement. In Richard McNemar, Music, and the...
by F.W. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Shakers : Compendium of the Origin, History, Principles, Rules and Regulations, Government, and Doctrines of the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing also includes six biographies of the founders of the Shaker Society.
Chosen Faith, Chosen Land
The Untold Story of America's 21st Century Shakers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book takes a look at the faith, philosophy, and way of life of the country's one remaining Shaker community. Lauber explores their spiritual and daily lives by weaving together proprietary Shaker quotations, interviews, and photographs. The result is a book that pierces many misconceptions, most...
Yearning for the New Age
Laura Holloway-Langford and Late Victorian Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
This biography of an unconventional woman in late 19th Century America is a study of the search for individual autonomy and spiritual growth.
Laura Holloway-Langford, a “rebel girl” from Tennessee, moved to New York City, where she supported her family as a journalist. She soon became famous...
Faith and Practice
of Southeastern Yearly Meeting of The Religious Society of Friends
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Quaker Faith and Practices are the Society of Friends' guidelines and advices to Friends worldwide. Southeastern Yearly Meeting is pleased to provide eReader formats for the reader curious about Quaker faith and practice as expressed in the southeastern United States. Contents include support for same...
Mapping Exile and Return
Palestinian Dispossession and a Political Theology for a Shared Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
One of the most persistent, if vexing, issues is the state of affairs in the ancient land of Palestine. Palestinian Christians bear the enormous brunt of suffering and dispossession in the current situation, and are burdened even more by Christian political appropriation of Zionism. Through an analysis...