Origins of the Shakers

Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-0-8018-5923-6
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 413 g

Pietists, Methodists, and sectarian groups such as the Shakers all shared the conviction that God touched the individual directly and visibly; manifestations of spirit possession, accompanied by prophecy, visions, and ecstatic seizures, became outward signs of an inner expedience, a kind of sacred theater as believers acted out their possession before others.

Clarke Garrett follows this "sacred theater" back to the Camisards of southeastern France, an ecstatic Protestant group whose doomed rebellion against Louis XIV led to their dispersal among Huguenot exiles. Then, Garrett writes, "in a form that the Huguenots themselves would probably not have recognized, a dozen English ecstatics, who in their native Manchester had been known as Shakers, brought Huguenot spirit possession to America in 1774." The Shakers emerge as the culmination of the century's religious quest, preserving the immediacy of spirit possession while making it the basis for the formation of an ideal Christian community.

Originally published as Spirit Possession and Popular Religion: From the Comisards to the Shakers

Autoren/Hrsg.

Garrett, Clarke

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Alternative Glaubensformen Hexerei und Zauberei
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Andere und Moderne Christliche Glaubensgemeinschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction: Anthropology and History
Chapter 1. Your Sons and Daughters Shall Prophesy
Chapter 2. The Prophetic Diaspora
Chapter 3. The Community of True Inspiration
Chapter 4. The Methodist Awakening
Chapter 5. The Transatlantic Awakening
Chapter 6. A Prophetess in Manchester
Chapter 7. The Woman in the Wilderness
Chapter 8. Into New England
Chapter 9. Spiritual Wars and Sharp Testimonies
Chapter 10. The Gathering Into Order
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Garrett, Clarke
Clarke Garrett is Charles A. Dana Professor of History Emeritus at Dickinson College. He is the author of Respectable Folly: Millenarians and the French Revolution.