By Stephen C. Taysom
Between America's extra fascinating new spiritual routine, the Shakers and the Mormons got here to be considered separate and detailed from mainstream Protestantism. utilizing information and historic fabrics from the nineteenth century, Stephen C. Taysom exhibits how those teams actively maintained barriers and created their very own thriving, yet insular groups. Taysom discovers a center of innovation deployed via either the Shakers and the Mormons wherein they embraced their prestige as outsiders. Their marginalization was once severe to their preliminary good fortune. As he skillfully negotiates the diversities among Shakers and Mormons, Taysom illuminates the features which set those teams aside and helped them to develop into precise spiritual dissenters. (2011)
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Other families were organized according to their experience in the Shaker faith, and each typically lived in its own dwelling house. Particularly important for the purposes of this book is the novitiate order, which served as the ecclesiastical home for new converts. ”↜68 The physical boundary created by the Shakers in the form of the village was given flexibility because the community could quarantine new converts until they had been tested and had demonstrated their commitment to the movement.
88 Darrow used the principles of boundary maintenance that made the gathering orders an important boundary device in an expanded role to counter the paucity of more obviously physical boundaries. One significant outcome of this restructured world was the emergence of important theologians among the young believers in the West. Had Richard McNemar or John Dunlavy, for instance, entered into a Shaker village in the East, they would have found a complete physical world created to represent a hierarchically based social structure dominated not by individuals, but by social personae.
63 It is not inconceivable that the elder mentioned, through fear or favor currying, simply wanted to impress the autocratic Wells, and there is no question that the central authorities were frequently criticized and occasionally ignored by village leaders. The fact remained, however, that, in matters of importance, the Central Ministry wielded considerable power. ”↜64 By allowing for some play in the joints of the Shaker village system, the Central Ministry avoided having to become bogged down in local issues while providing the village ministries with the opportunity to respond efficiently to non-essential contingencies that might arise in their particular localities.
