Author: Suzanne R. Thurman
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815629344
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
In her account of the founding, golden years, and eventual demise of the two Massachusetts villages, Thurman (history, U. of Alabama- Huntsville) augments the narrative history with discussion of how gender, family, and community functioned in them. They were founded by English-born visionary Ann Lee. She called her sect the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, but they were commonly known as Shakers or Believers. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
O Sisters Ain't You Happy?
Author: Suzanne R. Thurman
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815629344
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
In her account of the founding, golden years, and eventual demise of the two Massachusetts villages, Thurman (history, U. of Alabama- Huntsville) augments the narrative history with discussion of how gender, family, and community functioned in them. They were founded by English-born visionary Ann Lee. She called her sect the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, but they were commonly known as Shakers or Believers. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815629344
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
In her account of the founding, golden years, and eventual demise of the two Massachusetts villages, Thurman (history, U. of Alabama- Huntsville) augments the narrative history with discussion of how gender, family, and community functioned in them. They were founded by English-born visionary Ann Lee. She called her sect the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, but they were commonly known as Shakers or Believers. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Gift to be Simple
Author: Edward Deming Andrews
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486200224
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Features the songs, dances, rituals of American Shakers -- only authoritative account. Origin, development, notation, dance figures. Includes 80 songs in notation and 17 illustrations.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486200224
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Features the songs, dances, rituals of American Shakers -- only authoritative account. Origin, development, notation, dance figures. Includes 80 songs in notation and 17 illustrations.
As it is in Heaven
Author: Arlene Hutton
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822218609
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
THE STORY: A religious community is changed when a non-believer has an ecstatic experience. The 1830's Shaker society of Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, is set in ordered ways. Their once dramatic form of worship has by now developed into routine. The arr
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822218609
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
THE STORY: A religious community is changed when a non-believer has an ecstatic experience. The 1830's Shaker society of Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, is set in ordered ways. Their once dramatic form of worship has by now developed into routine. The arr
Life in the Hills of Kentucky
Author: William Eleazar Barton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kentucky
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kentucky
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The Wind-up of the Big Meetin' on No Bus'ness
Author: William Eleazar Barton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Color of Your Skin Ain't the Color of Your Heart, The
Author: Michael Phillips
Publisher: Bethany House
ISBN: 0764227025
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Katie and Mayme face new challenges to their safety and the survival of the plantation. Shenandoah Sisters book 3.
Publisher: Bethany House
ISBN: 0764227025
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Katie and Mayme face new challenges to their safety and the survival of the plantation. Shenandoah Sisters book 3.
Women Playwrights
Author: D. L. Lepidus
Publisher: Smith & Kraus
ISBN: 9781575253657
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher: Smith & Kraus
ISBN: 9781575253657
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
She Ain't My Sister
Author: Linda Ivy Cooper
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1456729926
Category : Adult child abuse victims
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Molly is an adult. She has returned to the home of her childhood. The setting where she begins to tell her story is Bradenton, Florida.She remembers and begins to reveal the secrets of a past shared by four displaced children. Molly and her brother Jake were given up for adoption to their mother's sister, (a victim of abuse and sexual molestation) and her husband the ex-marine of German heritage. Jake suffers both physical and mental abuse at the hands of his new father.Molly is convinced if she does everything possible to please her new parents, they will love her. But, when her new father withholds food from her as a way to lose weight and her mother forcibly removes her teeth; she comes to believe they hate her because she is ugly.Through divorce and other atrocities, one-by-one the three other children are banished from the family. Molly is left to face the downward spiral of a mother obsessed with grandeur thoughts of fame; associated with a distorted view of religion.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1456729926
Category : Adult child abuse victims
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Molly is an adult. She has returned to the home of her childhood. The setting where she begins to tell her story is Bradenton, Florida.She remembers and begins to reveal the secrets of a past shared by four displaced children. Molly and her brother Jake were given up for adoption to their mother's sister, (a victim of abuse and sexual molestation) and her husband the ex-marine of German heritage. Jake suffers both physical and mental abuse at the hands of his new father.Molly is convinced if she does everything possible to please her new parents, they will love her. But, when her new father withholds food from her as a way to lose weight and her mother forcibly removes her teeth; she comes to believe they hate her because she is ugly.Through divorce and other atrocities, one-by-one the three other children are banished from the family. Molly is left to face the downward spiral of a mother obsessed with grandeur thoughts of fame; associated with a distorted view of religion.