| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
|
| Title Information: |
conflicting visions, contested boundaries |
| Author: |
TaysomStephen C, |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
| Place of Publication: |
Bloomington |
| Published: |
Indiana University Press; |
| Year of Publication: |
c2011 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (xiv, 259 p.). |
| Series: |
Religion in North America |
| Subject: |
Christian sociology - History - United States - 20th century - |
| Subject: |
United States - Church history - 19th century - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780253004895/ |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Summary: |
This volume demonstrates how the Shakers and the Mormons maintained boundaries and created their own thriving, but insular communities separate and distinct from mainstream American Protestantism. The author describes the innovation deployed by both the Shakers and the Mormons through which they embraced their status as outsiders. He feels that theirmarginalization was critical to their initial success. He points out the differences between Shakers and Mormons and illuminates the characteristics which set these groups apart and helped them to become true religious dissenters |
| ISBN: |
9780253004895electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0253004896electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780253355409hbk. |
| ISBN: |
0253355400hbk. |
| Content Note: |
The Shakers in the world : walls and bridges -- Imagination and reality in the Mormon Zion : cities, temples, and bodies -- Godly marriage and divine androgyny : polygamy and celibacy -- Boundaries in crisis : the Shaker era of manifestations and the Mormon reformation |