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- catalog abstract "Have you ever wondered what it would be like to remove yourself wholly from the bustling, modern world and live in an atmosphere of simplicity and peacefulness? Where your daily activities consist of baking bread, crafting furniture, and singing songs in a place where men and women are true equals? Suzanne Skees found such a place at the Shaker Village in Sabbathday Lake, Maine, where for more than two hundred years men and women have cultivated not wealth and riches, but a heaven here on earth. The radical Christian sect arrived in the New World in 1774 when Mother Ann Lee and a straggle of English followers sought refuge from religious persecution. The group, called "Shakers" for the whirling dances they once performed to invoke the spirit of God, soon established America's most successful utopian community. Although the faith surged in the thousands during the nineteenth century, today the celibate Shakers have dwindled down to one small community of eight men and women in Sabbathday Lake. While studying at Harvard Divinity School, Skees was introduced to them and began a correspondence that continued for many years. Eventually she received permission to visit and to learn the Shaker Way.".
- catalog contributor b10508985.
- catalog coverage "Sabbathday Lake (Me.) Religious life and customs.".
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description "Have you ever wondered what it would be like to remove yourself wholly from the bustling, modern world and live in an atmosphere of simplicity and peacefulness? Where your daily activities consist of baking bread, crafting furniture, and singing songs in a place where men and women are true equals? Suzanne Skees found such a place at the Shaker Village in Sabbathday Lake, Maine, where for more than two hundred years men and women have cultivated not wealth and riches, but a heaven here on earth. The radical Christian sect arrived in the New World in 1774 when Mother Ann Lee and a straggle of English followers sought refuge from religious persecution. The group, called "Shakers" for the whirling dances they once performed to invoke the spirit of God, soon established America's most successful utopian community. Although the faith surged in the thousands during the nineteenth century, today the celibate Shakers have dwindled down to one small community of eight men and women in Sabbathday Lake. While studying at Harvard Divinity School, Skees was introduced to them and began a correspondence that continued for many years. Eventually she received permission to visit and to learn the Shaker Way.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-275).".
- catalog extent "275 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "God among the Shakers.".
- catalog identifier "0786862378".
- catalog isFormatOf "God among the Shakers.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Hyperion,".
- catalog relation "God among the Shakers.".
- catalog spatial "Sabbathday Lake (Me.) Religious life and customs.".
- catalog subject "289/.8 21".
- catalog subject "BX9768.S2 S54 1998".
- catalog subject "Shakers Maine Sabbathday Lake.".
- catalog subject "Spirituality Shakers.".
- catalog title "God among the Shakers : a search for stillness and faith at Sabbathday Lake / Suzanne Skees.".
- catalog type "text".