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  2. Shakers - Wikipedia

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    Mother's First-Born Daughters: early Shaker writings on women and religion. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993. Kern, Louis J. An Ordered Love: Sex Roles and Sexuality in Victorian Utopias: The Shakers, the Mormons, and the Oneida Community (University of North Carolina Press, 1981) online Archived July 8, 2017, at the Wayback Machine

  3. Shaker communities - Wikipedia

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    Thriving on the religious enthusiasm of the first and second Great Awakenings, the Shakers declared their messianic, communitarian message with significant response. One early convert observed: "The wisdom of their instructions, the purity of their doctrine, their Christ-like deportment, and the simplicity of their manners, all appeared truly ...

  4. Category:Shakers - Wikipedia

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    The United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, known as the Shakers, was a religious sect founded in the 18th century in England, having branched off from a Quaker community. They were known as "Shaking Quakers" because of their ecstatic behavior during worship services.

  5. Ann Lee - Wikipedia

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    She was born during a time of the Evangelical revival in England, and became a figure that greatly influenced religion at this time, especially in the Americas. After nearly two decades of participation in a religious movement that became the Shakers, in 1774 Ann Lee and a small group of her followers emigrated from England to New York.

  6. Indian Shaker Church - Wikipedia

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    The first Indian Shaker Church at Mud Bay, Eld Inlet, Washington State, c. 1892. As tradition tells, Slocum (Squ-sacht-um) had died from sickness in 1881 when he revived during his wake reporting a visit to heaven, where he was told by an angel that, "you've been a pretty bad Indian", and where he received instructions to start a new religion. [2]

  7. Pleasant Hill, Kentucky - Wikipedia

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    Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, USA, is the site of a Shaker religious community that was active from 1805 to 1910. Following a preservationist effort that began in 1961, the site, now a National Historic Landmark, has become a popular tourist destination.

  8. Chronology of Shakers - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. John Slocum - Wikipedia

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    John Slocum's first Indian Shaker Church at Mud Bay, Eld Inlet, Washington State, circa 1892. In 1881 he became ill and allegedly fell into a coma. [4] His family believed that he was dead, however Slocum revived after a few hours and said that he had had a vision in which he was transported to the gates of heaven. [5]