HOLY MOUNT: Identity, Place, Religion, and Narrative at New Lebanon Shaker Village 1759-1861
While the Shakers are associated in North American with simplicity and communalism, an examination of Shaker history reveals a dynamic and complex society. Shaker life was structured by a powerful metanarrative: the Shakers were the ‘Chosen People of God,’ who lived in ‘His Promised Land.’ This narr...
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2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1974/1882 |