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127 S.; sehr zahlr. Illustr.; 26 cm. Originalhalbleinen; Umschlag.

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Gutes Ex.; Umschl. etwas berieben. - Englisch. // Die Shaker (engl. für ?Schüttler?) sind eine christliche Freikirche in den USA, die aus dem Quäkertum hervorgegangen ist. Ihr Name leitet sich von dem rituellen Schütteltanz her, der bei ihnen als eine Form der Verehrung Gottes gilt, und ist eine Zusammenziehung aus Shaking Quakers. ... // They called themselves the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, but because of their ecstatic dancing, the world called them Shakers. The Shakers were celibate, they did not marry or bear children, yet they are the most enduring religious experiment in American history. Seventy-five years before the emancipation of the slaves, and 150 years before women began voting in America, the Shakers were practicing social, economic, and spiritual equality for all members. They believed in pacifism and feminism, freedom from prejudice, natural health and hygiene, and joyful personal worship. At their height in 1840, more than 6,000 believers lived in nineteen communal villages from New England to Ohio and Kentucky. Tales of their peaceful and prosperous lives impressed the world's Utopians. But Shaker aspirations were divine, not social or material. As millennialists, they were unified in the belief that Christ had come again, first in the person of Mother Ann, their founder, and subsequently "in all in whom the Christ consciousness awakens. " It was therefore the duty of each believer to live purely "in the kingdom of heaven on earth," and to strive for perfection in everything they did. Today, fewer than a dozen Shakers still live in two two- hundred year old villages in New Hampshire and Maine. Although their numbers have dwindled, their importance has not, and the longing to understand these mysterious people is greater than ever. For two hundred years, the Shakers have put their hands to work and their hearts to God. In their buildings, their furniture, their stone walls, in the turn of a wooden peg, the Shakers' striving for simplicity and perfection is plainly stated. (Verlagstext) // INHALT : FOREWORD, ELDRESS BERTHA LINDSAY INTRODUCTION --- OPENING THE GOSPEL --- GATHERING INTO ORDER --- THE KENTUCKY REVIVAL --- HEARTS TO GOD --- HANDS TO WORK --- REAPING THE HARVEST --- MOTHER ANN'S WORK --- TO THE END OF THE WORLD EPILOGUE --- BIBLIOGRAPHY, CREDITS, --- AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. ISBN 0893812676