Through their expansion west into the American frontier, the religious group known as the Shakers experienced theological and cultural changes between their original New England communities and the newer established communities in the west. Three specific death traditions are examined as means to measure the changes in expressions of religiosity among two sites: Mount Lebanon, New York and Pleasant Hill, Kentucky. Higher amounts of change among religiosity represents the Shakers’ culture becoming more “worldly” opposed to remaining traditional in their cultural theologies and practices
In 1805, at the height of the period of early religious excitement in Kentucky, three members of the...
Illustration titled "Shakers at Meeting The Final Procession." The Shakers were a religious group th...
The United Society of Believers in Christ\u27s Second Appearing, or the Shakers, are a small progres...
Through their expansion west into the American frontier, the religious group known as the Shakers ex...
Through analysis of doctrine, cult, social and political organisation and the relations with the out...
The Indian Shaker Church is an indigenous spiritual tradition that incorporates Christian-in-origin ...
This research studies the nature of theological space and its production by examining the spatial pr...
"Observations on church government, by the presbytery of Springfield" (p. [133]-156) has special t.p...
Among America\u27s more interesting new religious movements, the Shakers and the Mormons came to be ...
The Shakers were ever changing their policies and daily practices. To imagine that the Shakers never...
The arrival of the Shakers in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana in the decades after 1805 saw a substantia...
This article traces the construction, use, and ultimate fates, of the first generation of Shaker mee...
In the early nineteenth century, a young man belonging to the prominent Byrd family of Virginia, the...
Of the seven major western Shaker sites, one in particular stands out as distinctive. This elusive a...
Illustration of Shakers dancing in Warren County, Ohio, from "Historical Collections of Ohio" by Hen...
In 1805, at the height of the period of early religious excitement in Kentucky, three members of the...
Illustration titled "Shakers at Meeting The Final Procession." The Shakers were a religious group th...
The United Society of Believers in Christ\u27s Second Appearing, or the Shakers, are a small progres...
Through their expansion west into the American frontier, the religious group known as the Shakers ex...
Through analysis of doctrine, cult, social and political organisation and the relations with the out...
The Indian Shaker Church is an indigenous spiritual tradition that incorporates Christian-in-origin ...
This research studies the nature of theological space and its production by examining the spatial pr...
"Observations on church government, by the presbytery of Springfield" (p. [133]-156) has special t.p...
Among America\u27s more interesting new religious movements, the Shakers and the Mormons came to be ...
The Shakers were ever changing their policies and daily practices. To imagine that the Shakers never...
The arrival of the Shakers in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana in the decades after 1805 saw a substantia...
This article traces the construction, use, and ultimate fates, of the first generation of Shaker mee...
In the early nineteenth century, a young man belonging to the prominent Byrd family of Virginia, the...
Of the seven major western Shaker sites, one in particular stands out as distinctive. This elusive a...
Illustration of Shakers dancing in Warren County, Ohio, from "Historical Collections of Ohio" by Hen...
In 1805, at the height of the period of early religious excitement in Kentucky, three members of the...
Illustration titled "Shakers at Meeting The Final Procession." The Shakers were a religious group th...
The United Society of Believers in Christ\u27s Second Appearing, or the Shakers, are a small progres...