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Shakers - Ann Lee: Encyclopedia II - Shakers - Ann Lee Under the leadership of Mother Ann Lee, beginning in 1774, the work ethic and rejection of marriage for which they have ever since been known began to typify the movement. She joined the Wardleys in 1758. Although a believer in celibacy, she had, at her parents' urging, married Abraham Stanley (Standley, or Standerin), and bore him four children, all of whom died in infancy. She was miserable in marriage, and by 1770 had begun to insist that the institution was not compatible with the Kingdom of God. Like many others in the Quaker tra ...

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Shakers - Ann Lee: American History Dictionary - Shakers

Definition and meaning of Shakers:

Shakers

The Shakers, a religious commune founded by Ann Lee, practiced celibacy because they believed the millennium was imminent. Shakers made a special virtue of simplicity.

(Source: Madrid Waddington High School )

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Shakers - Ann Lee: New Age Spirituality Dictionary on Shakers

Shakers

Shakers The Shakers, a perfectionist utopian movement, originated in Manchester, England, after Ann Lee, a member of the Shaking Quakers, had a visionary experience. She claimed to have seen Adam and Eve in sexual intercourse, after which Jesus enjoined her to teach others that lust was the source of sin. Her ideas about lust and corruption were intensified by the death of her four children. Thereafter, she suffered a dread of sexual relations and formed a religious order based on celibacy.

In 1774 Ms. Lee moved her group to America. They settled first near Albany, New York, but after Lee's death in 1784, they moved to New Lebanon, New York. By 1822 there were four thousand Shakers in more than a dozen communities.

In the 1780s leaders initiated a cooperative economic system and organized communes composed of extended "families. " Shaker communities abolished private property, regulated all behavior, and imposed mandatory confessions. Organized around the concept of celibacy, Shaker communities kept men and women carefully segregated. Children were raised communally. Their religious services provided emotional release through trembling, speaking in tongues, and falling into trances-hence, the name Shakers.

Membership turnover was always high, but before 1830 many members stayed for decades. Often whole families joined. Shaker population reached its peak of about five to six thousand during the 1830s but then dropped dramatically. Shakers were renowned for their original styles of vocal music, crafts, and architecture. Adhering to the idea that form follows function, they created furniture designs that are highly prized for their simple lines and functionality. Shakers invented an impressive array of devices from the common clothespin and the flat broom to a revolving oven and a folding stereoscope. They pioneered the industry of herbal medicines and the selling of garden seeds in packets.

Shakers - Ann Lee: American History Dictionary - Ann Lee

Definition and meaning of Ann Lee:

Lee, Ann

Ann Lee founded the Shaker communities. She believed herself to be Christ returned to earth. She came to New York from England in 1774 and died in 1784, but her movement continued to expand for decades.

(Source: Madrid Waddington High School )

Also see these pages: American History, American History Sitemap, History, History Sitemap

Shakers - Ann Lee: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary on Shakers

Shakers A sect called the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, founded by Ann Lee in England, which afterwards spread to the United States. Their asceticism and religious emotionalism often led to their being seized with violent tremblings, like those of the early Quakers or of the Convulsionnaires among the French Jansenists.

In themselves, such exterior physical phenomena are due to a one-sided emotional development, and to the evoking of genuine and powerful forces within a physical organism not properly and duly prepared to deal with and sustain them. Such conditions often lead to reactions which both physically and mentally are dangerous, and in the most extreme cases may render the physical organism peculiarly subject to being influenced by excarnate astral entities.

(See also: Shakers, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary)

Shakers - Ann Lee: Encyclopedia II - Shakers - Communalism under Joseph Meacham

In 1781–1783 the Mother with chosen elders visited her followers in New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut. She died in Watervliet, New York on September 8, 1784. James Whittaker was head of the Believers for three years. On his death he was succeeded by Joseph Meacham (1742–1796), who had been a Baptist minister in Enfield, Connecticut, and had, second only to Mother Ann, the spiritual gift of revelation. Under his rule and that of Lucy Wright (1760–1821), who shared the headship with him during his lifetime and then for twenty-five ...

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