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Locating the Shakers : cultural origins and legacies of an American religious movement / edited by Mick Gidley with Kate Bowles ; with an afterword by John Fowles.
- Title
- Locating the Shakers : cultural origins and legacies of an American religious movement / edited by Mick Gidley with Kate Bowles ; with an afterword by John Fowles.
- Publication
- Exeter : University of Exeter Press for AmCAS, 1990.
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- Description
- 158 p., [8] p. of plates; 22 cm.
- Series Statement
- Exeter studies in American and Commonwealth arts ; no. 3
- Uniform Title
- Exeter studies in American and Commonwealth arts ; no. 3.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings
- Note
- Papers originally presented at the Shaker Symposium mounted by the Centre for American & Commonwealth Arts and Studies at the University of Exeter in March 1989.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The Shakers : a brief historical sketch / Rosemary Gooden -- "In true imitation of Christ" : the tradition of mystical communitarianism in early eighteenth-century England / Tim V. Hitchcock -- Different paths to perfection : the Shakers and radical sects in New England, 1780-1850 / Louis Billington -- The American utopian context of the Shakers / Lyman T. Sargent -- The economic context of the Shakers / Ken Penney -- Perfect and plain : Shaker approaches to design / Paul Oliver -- "Blessed are the peacemakers" : the Shakers as pacifists / Elizabeth Kolmer -- "Who do you say that I am?" : Mother Ann as Christ / Marjorie Procter-Smith -- Shakers as feminists? : Shakerism as a vanguard in the Antebellum American search for female autonomy and independence / Alison M. Newby.
- The Hopedale Sewing Circle and Tract Society : microcosm of the Hopedale community / Christopher W. Gregory -- Elder Evans, Mrs. Girling and the children of God / Geoffrey Gale -- Maternal paradigms, erotic strategies and sororal conciousness : sexuality and women's experiences among the Shakers and in the Kerista commune / Louis J. Kern -- Past and present comment / John Fowles.
- ISBN
- 0859893510 (pbk) :
- LCCN
- gb^90038119^
- OCLC
- 22179121
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library