Shaking the Faith Women, Family, and Mary Marshall Dyer's Anti-Shaker Campaign, 1815-1867

Name: Shaking the Faith Women, Family, and Mary Marshall Dyer's Anti-Shaker Campaign, 1815-1867
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ISBN: 9780312295035

ISBN-10: 0312295030

ISBN-13: 9780312295035

Edition: 2002 (Revised)

Authors: Elizabeth A. De Wolfe

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Winner of the 2003 Communal Studies Association Outstanding Publication Award! When Mary Marshall Dyer (1780-1867) joined the Shakers in 1813 with her husband and five children, she thought she had found salvation. But two years later, she fled the sect, calling them subversive of Christian morality and a danger to American society. When her husband and the Shaker authorities denied her request for the return of her children, Dyer joined forces with an aggressive anti-Shaker movement – an informal yet effective group linked together by their despisal of Shakerism and their determination to thwart the new faith. Distraught, angry, and alone, Dyer turned her anguish into action and embarked…

Book details

List price: $54.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 8/19/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 233
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



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Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Shakers and Anti-Shakers



Conversion, Deconversion and Apostasy



The Sympathy and Malice of Mankind



The World Worked Up to Some Purpose



A Spectacle for Remark



In Deep Affliction



Notorious Against Them


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index