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Shakers, Mormons, and religious worlds conflicting visions, contested boundaries
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Shakers, Mormons, and religious worlds [electronic resource] : conflicting visions, contested boundaries / Stephen C. Taysom.
ISBN
0253004896
9780253004895
0253355400 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780253355409 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 259 p. )
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Summary
This volume demonstrates how the Shakers and the Mormons maintained boundaries and created their own thriving, but insular communities separate and distinct from mainstream American Protestantism. The author describes the innovation deployed by both the Shakers and the Mormons through which they embraced their status as outsiders. He feels that their marginalization was critical to their initial success. He points out the differences between Shakers and Mormons and illuminates the characteristics which set these groups apart and helped them to become true religious dissenters.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - UPCC 2010-2012 Current Complete Collection Bundle.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2011 Current Complete Collection.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2011 Philosophy and Religion Collection.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 25, 2012
Series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The Shakers in the world : walls and bridges
Imagination and reality in the Mormon Zion : cities, temples, and bodies
Godly marriage and divine androgyny : polygamy and celibacy
Boundaries in crisis : the Shaker era of manifestations and the Mormon reformation.
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