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Shaking the Faith - Women, Family, and Mary Marshall Dyer's Anti-Shaker Campaign, 1815-1867 (Paperback, 2002 ed.)
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Shaking the Faith - Women, Family, and Mary Marshall Dyer's Anti-Shaker Campaign, 1815-1867 (Paperback, 2002 ed.)
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In the first half of the 19th century, Mary Marshall Dyer
(1780-1867) was at the center of an aggressive anti-Shaker movement
- an informal yet effective group joined by their despisal of
Shakerism and their determination to thwart the new faith. With her
husband and their five children, Dyer had been a Shaker for two
years, but as her husband grew increasingly attracted to Shakerism,
Dyer's own commitment waned, and when she announced she was leaving
the sect and requested the return of her children , neither her
husband nor the Shaker authorities would relinquish them.
Distraught, angry, and alone, Dyer turned her anguish into action
and embarked on a fifty year campaign against the Shakers. A
linchpin of anti-Shaker activity, Dyer wrote numerous articles
against the sect, as well as five books - and was the centerpiece
of the Shakers' counterattack. The American public - especially in
New England, where the Shaker movement was based - followed the
debate with great interest, not least because it offered
titillating details into the mysterious sect, but also because
Dyer's experiences reflected profound changes in the family,
religion, and gender that Americans faced in the years prior to the
Civil War. In this compelling book, De Wolfe suggests that while
neither the Shakers nor Dyer would agree, the latter, a mother
without children and a wife without a husband, and the former, a
celibate communal sect that disavowed the marriage bond, shared
similar positions on the margins of society.
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