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| List of Figures | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| A New and Strange Religion: The Age of the Founders, 1747-1787 | |
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| Background | |
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| Beginnings in America | |
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| An Apostate's View | |
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| Ann Lee's Public Ministry: An Insider's View | |
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| The Teachings of the First Witnesses | |
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| The Close of the Age of the Founders | |
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| The Gathering and Building of the Church: The Establishment of the United Society, 1787-1826 | |
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| The Beginnings of Communitarianism | |
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| The Ministration of Lucy Wright | |
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| Expansion into the West | |
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| The Origins of Shaker Theology | |
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| The Creation of a History | |
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| The Consolidation of the Millennial Church | |
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| The Close of the Formative Period | |
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| Too Much of the Wind, Fire, and Earthquake: The Maturation and Revitalization of the Society, 1827-1875 | |
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| A New Generation of Leaders | |
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| The Economics of Community | |
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| The Social Situation | |
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| The Spiritualistic Revivals | |
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| The Legacy of the Manifestations | |
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| The Changing Situation | |
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| The View from the Outside | |
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| The Closing of the Middle Period | |
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| In the Van of an Advancing Host: The Transformation of the Society, 1876-1947 | |
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| Declining Membership and Geographical Retreat | |
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| The Feminization of the Society | |
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| The World of Finance Capitalism | |
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| The Impact of Modern Thought and Life | |
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| Reconciliation with the World | |
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| Varieties of Religious Experience | |
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| The Issue of Decline | |
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| I Almost Expect to Be Remembered as a Chair: The Rebirth of Shakerism, 1948 to the Present | |
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| Waiting for the End | |
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| The Beginnings of a Shaker Revival | |
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| Controversy among the Believers | |
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| The Selling of the Shakers | |
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| The Ecumenical Shakers | |
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| The Shaker Myth: A National Treasure | |
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| Looking to the Future | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Notes | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Index | |