Stephen J. Stein is a historian of American religion, and this Yale University Press book is his standard scholarly comprehensive history of the United Society of Believers, the Shakers, tracing their communities across states including Kentucky, Maine, New Hampshire and Ohio. Its strength is genuinely comprehensive archival research across the movement's full history and geographic spread, rather than focusing on one community or period alone, making it the field's standard reference. Its limit is that as a comprehensive academic history it is not written from within the Shakers' own devotional voice, so a claim about how Shaker theology and practice are understood and lived by Shaker believers themselves needs a source presenting that internal perspective alongside this outside scholarly history.
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Stephen Stein's Yale University Press standard scholarly history of the United Society of Believers, the Shakers, in America. NotesStephen Stein's standard scholarly history of the United Society of Believers (the Shakers) in America, covering its communities across states such as Kentucky, Maine, New Hampshire and Ohio. Use for established historical facts about Shaker communities and their development; a comprehensive academic history, not the Shakers' own devotional voice.
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AuthorStephen J. Stein
PublisherYale University Press
Publication Year1992
URLhttps://archive.org/details/shakerexperience0000stei
Source Typeacademic monograph
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This source names Shakers directly: "the United Society of Believers, the Shakers, tracing their communities across states including Kentucky, Maine, New Hampshire and Ohio."
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This source backs 50 claims across the atlas. As facts: 31 well-attested. As cited relationships: 3 holds, 3 connected. Plus 13 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Articles, 23 claims: 14 well-attested, 3 connected, 6 general references.
- Denominations, 10 claims: 9 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Sources, 9 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Doctrines, 4 claims: 2 holds, 2 general references.
- States & Territories, 4 claims: 4 general references.
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