Shaking The Faith
Subtitle: Women, Family, and Mary Marshall Dyer's Anti-Shaker Campaign, 1815-1867
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: April 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780312295035
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Christian & quasi-Christian cults & sects; Protestantism & Protestant Churches; Social history; Social Science; Sociology; Northeastern & North Atlantic states; USA; Gender Studies; Sociology of Religion; United States - 19th Century; History-United States - 19th Century; Social Science / Gender Studies; Social Science / Sociology of Religion; Social Science-Gender Studies; Biography; Dyer, Mary M.,; Shaker women; Shakers; b. 1780
First sentence: Mary Dyer's mind had been under "serious contemplation" some time before smallpox made its way to Stratford, New Hampshire, in April 1803.