TY - GEN N2 - 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. AB - 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. T1 - Shakers, Mormons, and religious worldsconflicting visions, contested boundaries / DA - 2010. CY - Bloomington : AU - Taysom, Stephen C. CN - Proquest Ebook Central CN - BX9765 PB - Indiana University Press, PP - Bloomington : PY - 2010. N1 - Description based on print version record. ID - 351764 KW - Christian sociology SN - 9780253004895 (electronic bk.) TI - Shakers, Mormons, and religious worldsconflicting visions, contested boundaries / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=624333 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=624333 ER -