TY - BOOK AU - Andrews,Edward Deming TI - The people called Shakers: a search for the perfect society SN - 0486210812 AV - BX9765 .A6 1963 U1 - 289.8 PY - 1963/// CY - New York PB - Dover Publications KW - Shakers KW - History KW - fast KW - gtt KW - United States KW - Religion and Medicine KW - Church history N1 - Originally published: London : Oxford University Press, 1953; "T1081."; APPE gift; Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-297) and index (p. 341-351); Ann Lee leads the way -- Opening the testimony in America -- Mission into New England -- Early Shaker communism -- Expansion westward -- Temporal labor : principles and practice -- Spiritual labor : mode of worship -- 'Mother Ann's work' -- Internal order -- Relations with the world -- Decline of the order N2 - Studies the history of the Shakers in America and their cultural influence ER -