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Shaker religion valued women and men equally in religious leadership. The church was hierarchical, and at each level women and men shared authority. This was reflective of the Shaker belief that God was both female and male. They believed men and women were equal in the sight of God, and should be treated equally on earth, too.
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 34 (1995): 35–48. In JSTOR; Murray, John E. "The white plague in utopia: tuberculosis in nineteenth-century Shaker communes." Bulletin of the History of Medicine: 1994, volume 68: 278–306; erratum, 510. Paterwic, Stephen. "From Individual to Community: Becoming a Shaker at New Lebanon, 1780–1947."
The chronology of Shakers is a list of important events pertaining to the history of the Shakers, a denomination of Christianity. Millenarians who believe that their founder, Ann Lee, experienced the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, the Shakers practice celibacy, confession of sin, communalism, ecstatic worship, pacifism, and egalitarianism.
One man's attempt to build a Shaker community in Windsor stretched over 400 acres of land and included several successful businesses.
Purple on Silk: A Shaker Eldress and Her Dye Journal. Shaker Manifesto Archived 2012-07-24 at the Wayback Machine. The Shakers' monthly magazine, 1871-1899. Suzanne Skees (1999). God Among the Shakers: Search for Stillness & Faith at Sabbathday Lake. Hyperion Books. ISBN 978-0-7868-8364-6. Stephen J. Stein (1994).
Ann Lee (29 February 1736 – 8 September 1784), commonly known as Mother Ann Lee, was the founding leader of the Shakers, later changed to United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing following her death.
Hancock Shaker Village is a former Shaker commune in Hancock and Pittsfield, Massachusetts. It emerged in the towns of Hancock, Pittsfield, and Richmond in the 1780s, organized in 1790, and was active until 1960. It was the third of nineteen major Shaker villages established between 1774 and 1836 in New York, New England, Kentucky, Ohio and ...
Mount Lebanon's main building became a National Historic Landmark in 1965. [2] [8]Although the first of the Shaker settlements in the U.S. was in the Watervliet Shaker Historic District, Mount Lebanon became the leading Shaker society, and was the first to have a building used exclusively for religious purposes.