Shakers, Mormons, and Religious Worlds: Conflicting Visions, Contested Boundaries

by Stephen C. Taysom

Among America's more interesting new religious movements, the Shakers and the Mormons came to be thought of as separate and distinct from mainstream Protestantism. Using archives and historical materials from the 19th century, Stephen C. Taysom shows how these groups actively maintained boundaries and created their own thriving, but insular communities. Taysom discovers a core of innovation deployed by both the Shakers and the Mormons through which...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253355400
• ISBN13: 9780253355409
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"