"Writings of Shaker Apostates and Anti-Shakers, 1782?850 Vol 3 "


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The Shakers are perhaps the best known of American religious communities. Their ethos and organization had a practical influence on many other communities and on society as a whole. This three volume collection presents writings from a broad cross-section of those who opposed the Shakers and their way of life.




Writings of Shaker Apostates and Anti-Shakers, 1782-1850 Vol 1


Book Description

The Shakers are perhaps the best known of American religious communities. Their ethos and organization had a practical influence on many other communities and on society as a whole. This three volume collection presents writings from a broad cross-section of those who opposed the Shakers and their way of life.




"Writings of Shaker Apostates and Anti-Shakers, 1782?850 Vol 1 "


Book Description

The Shakers are perhaps the best known of American religious communities. Their ethos and organization had a practical influence on many other communities and on society as a whole. This three volume collection presents writings from a broad cross-section of those who opposed the Shakers and their way of life.




Writings of Shaker Apostates and Anti-Shakers, 1782-1850 Vol 3


Book Description

The Shakers are perhaps the best known of American religious communities. Their ethos and organization had a practical influence on many other communities and on society as a whole. This three volume collection presents writings from a broad cross-section of those who opposed the Shakers and their way of life.




Shaker Autobiographies, Biographies and Testimonies, 1806–1907 Vol 1


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In the late eighteenth century a small Shaker community travelled to America under the leadership of ?Mother Ann? Lee. The American communities they founded were based on ideals of pacifism, celibacy and gender equality. The texts included in this edition come from first-hand accounts of life in the Shaker communities during the nineteenth century.




Transatlantic Spiritualism and Nineteenth-Century American Literature


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This book asks about the cultural and political meanings of spiritualism in the Nineteenth century United States. In order to re-assess both transatlantic spiritualism and the culture in which it emerged, Bennet locates spiritualism within a highly technologized transatlantic capitalist culture.




Lancashire Gleanings


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