Shakers, Mormons, and religious worlds [electronic resource] : conflicting visions, contested boundaries / Stephen C. Taysom.

Shakers, Mormons, and religious worlds [electronic resource] : conflicting visions, contested boundaries / Stephen C. Taysom.

9780253004895 (electronic bk.)
0253355400
9780253355409

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2010.

English

1 online resource (xiv, 259 pages).

BX9765 .T38 2010eb

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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.

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Religion in North America.

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