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<p>The Shakers, once a radical religious sect whose members were despised and harassed by their fellow Americans, have in recent years become celebrated - and sentimentalized - for their communal way of life, the simplicity of their worship, their belief in celibacy, pacifism, and equality of the sexes, and not least, their superb furniture and handicrafts. This monumental book is the first general history of the Shakers from their origins in eighteenth-century England to the present day.</p> <p>Drawing on written and oral testimony by Shakers over the past two centuries, Stephen J. Stein offers a full and often revisionist account of the movement: their charismatic leaders, the early years in revolutionary New York and New England, the expansion into the West, the maturation and growth of the sect before the Civil War, the decline in their fortunes after the war, the painful adjustments to society Shakers had to make during the first half of the twentieth century, the renaissance of interest after 1950, and the "forbidden topic" within contemporary Shakerism - the conflict between the two remaining villages at Canterbury, New Hampshire, and Sabbathday Lake, Maine. Stein provides m

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Author

Lester D. Langley

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300160857

Category

nonfiction

Rating

3.83 / 5 (38 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13