“Shakerism teaches God’s immanence through the common life shared in Christ’s mystical body.” Like many religious seekers throughout the ages, they hono

Provides detailed commentary on Shakers who contributed the most toward an earlier expansion, a chronology to outline the time element, and a comprehensive bibl

New religious movements--commonly known as cults--are defined as organizations that have arisen within the last 200 years. Most treatments of these movements ha

The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, commonly known as the Shakers, followed Mother Ann Lee to the United States in 1774 when life in E

Mesoamerica is one of six major areas of the world where humans independently changed their culture from a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle into settled commun