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Books on: shaker movement

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The Book of Shaker Furniture

Book by John Kassay; University of Massachusetts Press, 1980

Subjects:

Shaker Furniture

Collections: Entire Library

Of the more than one hundred experiments in communitarian living that proliferated in America during the nineteenth century, the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, whose adherents are best known as 'Shakers, ' is certainly one of the most interesting, successful, and enduring ...
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Of the more than one hundred experiments in communitarian living that proliferated in America during the nineteenth century, the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, whose adherents are best known as 'Shakers, ' is certainly one of the most interesting, successful, and enduring. This book is a collection of furniture made by members of this remarkable American religious sect.
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Bodies of Life: Shaker Literature and Literacies

Book by Etta M. Madden; Greenwood Press, 1998

Subjects:

American Literature--Shaker Authors--History And Criticism, Christian Communities In Literature, Christian Life In Literature, Christian Literature, American--History And Criticism, Christianity And Literature--United States, Sects In Literature, Shakers--In Literature, Shakers--United States--Books And Reading, Shakers--United States--Intellectual Life

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

The Shakers' "spiritual literacies," defined through an examination of their reading and writing practices, blur boundaries between traditionally masculine and feminine realms by using reason and emotion and by being innovative as well as traditional. This exploration of the relationship between ...
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The Shakers' "spiritual literacies," defined through an examination of their reading and writing practices, blur boundaries between traditionally masculine and feminine realms by using reason and emotion and by being innovative as well as traditional. This exploration of the relationship between literary practices and religious life in the 19th century, of such genres as autobiographies, elegies, histories, and doctrinal works, provides new insights into the many ways in which literacy enriches people's lives.
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Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement: Centenary Essays

Book by William J. Thorn, Phillip M. Runkel, Susan Mountin; Marquette University Press, 2001

Subjects:

Catholic Worker Movement--Congresses, Day, Dorothy--1897-1980--Congresses

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Catholic Worker, and the Labor Movement John Cort 257...32. The Shakers and the Program and Practice...scholarship on the Catholic Worker movement and Dorothy Day has explored...historical development of the Shakers with that of the Catholic...
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Shaker Furniture: The Craftsmanship of an American Communal Sect

Book by Edward Deming Andrews, Faith Andrews, William F. Winter; Dover Publications, 1964

Subjects:

Furniture--United States, Shakers--Industries

Collections: Entire Library

...invoked and long sustained the Shaker movement lost its vitality, its fragrance...their arts.The virility of the Shaker movement and the definiteness of the...medieval monastery, though the Shaker movement to live apart was possibly at...
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Gifts of Power: The Writings of Rebecca Jackson, Black Visionary, Shaker Eldress

Book by Jean McMahon Humez, Rebecca Jackson; University of Massachusetts Press, 1981

Subjects:

Shakers, Theology

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Civil War, and the utopian Shaker communities at the height...of the great social reform movements of the nineteenth century...honest and candid in all my movements from the beginning. . . . After...had unexpectedly found. Shaker records confirm that she was...

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Journal Articles on: shaker movement

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Freedom Is A Constant Struggle: The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and Its Legacy

Journal article by Mary N. Oluonye; The Journal of African American History, Vol. 91, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Freedom Is A Constant Struggle: The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and Its Legacy (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...underappreciated legacies." Indeed, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle provides far-reaching insights and interpretations for the study of current social movements in the United States and across the globe. Mary N. Oluonye Shaker Heights, Ohio Public Library
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Dearly Loved Mother Eunice: Gender, Motherhood, and Shaker Spirituality

Journal article by Suzanne Thurman; Church History, Vol. 66, 1997

Subjects:

Church History

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...marked a turning point, not only in Bathricks writing style, but also in her understanding of her role in the Shaker movement. No longer a timid and self-effacing sister, Bathrick ____________________ 20 A Biographical Sketch...
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The Shaker Church and the Indian Way in Native Northwestern California1

Journal article by Thomas Buckley; American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 21, 1997

Subjects:

Indians Of Central America--Periodicals

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...revitalization movement," as opposed to...that California Shakers rejected all indigenous...widespread, national movement toward retribalization...as offered by the Shaker and the Native...focus of Indian Shaker healing." Kroeber...Revitalization movements: Some theoretical...
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Improving Public Health through Early Childhood Movement Programs

Journal article by Clersida Garcia, Luis Garcia, Jerald Floyd, John Lawson; JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, Vol. 73, 2002

Subjects:

Cardiovascular diseases--Risk factors, Child health--Health aspects, Children--Health aspects, Motor learning--Physiological aspects, Physical education and training--Health aspects, Physical education--Health aspects

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...goes down and goes up again--its funny;" "I like kicking the shaker bottles," and "I like the sound they make" (figure 8). They...By applying the principles illustrated in this section, movement education programs can help children master fundamental motor...
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All Roads Led to Montreal: Black Power, the Caribbean, and the Black Radical Tradition in Canada

Journal article by David Austin; The Journal of African American History, Vol. 92, 2007

Subjects:

Black Canadians--History, Black Canadians--Political activity, Black power movement--History, Black power--History, Race discrimination--Economic aspects, Race discrimination--International aspects, Race discrimination--Political aspects

Collections: History, Entire Library

...into Trinidads Black Power movement. (84) In North America and...Caribbean. He was a mover and a shaker, someone who made things happen...all succeeding Black Power movements in Canada and the United States...figure in the countrys labour movement. He also sat in the Antiguan...

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Magazine Articles on: shaker movement

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Dance Directory: Schools, Studios, Colleges, Universities, Companies, Teachers, Dancers, Choreographers, Somatic Practices, Movement Arts, Dance Medicine, Yoga

Magazine article; Dance Magazine, Vol. 78, January 2004

Subjects:

Dance companies--Directories, Dance schools--Directories, Exercise therapy--Directories, Movement therapy--Directories

Collections: Entire Library

...levels; all year. Professional faculty 143 Shaker Rd., E. Longmeadow, MA 01028 (413) 525-7713...SCH. Fully accredited M.A. in Dance/Movement Therapy with a minor in Counseling Psychology...229-5665; www.lang.edu EVELYN FAITH FITNESS MOVEMENT CTR. Modern dance, jazz, ballet stretch...
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Dance Directory: Schools, Studios, Colleges, Universities, Companies, Teachers, Dancers, Choreographers, Somatic Practices, Movement Arts, Dance Medicine, Yoga

Magazine article; Dance Magazine, Vol. 78, February 2004

Subjects:

Dance companies--Directories, Dance schools--Directories, Exercise therapy--Services, Movement therapy--Services, Pilates--Services

Collections: Entire Library

...levels; all year. Professional faculty 143 Shaker Rd., E. Longmeadow, MA 01028 (413) 525-7713...SCH. Fully accredited M.A. in Dance/Movement Therapy with a minor in Counseling Psychology...229-5665; www.lang.edu EVELYN FAITH FITNESS MOVEMENT CTR. Modern dance, jazz, ballet stretch...
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Simply the Best: The International Arts and Crafts Movement Reveals All Its Beguiling Contradictions to Richard Cork

Magazine article by Richard Cork; New Statesman, Vol. 134, March 28, 2005

Subjects:

Arts and crafts movement--2005 AD, Arts and crafts movement--Exhibitions

Collections: Entire Library

...starkness of Mackintoshs oak chair may seem very remote. And yet the arts and crafts movement refused to limit itself. It believed that there was room for severe, Shaker-like furniture as well as the outrageous ostentation of a colossal, wool pile carpet...
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The Right Turn of David Horowitz; A New Anthology of Writing by David Horowitz Records How This Former New Left Mover and Shaker Became a Staunch Conservative and Defender of Traditional Values

Magazine article; Insight on the News, February 2, 2004

Subjects:

Authors, American, Horowitz, David--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Horowitz, David--Works, New Left

Collections: Entire Library

...decades ago. As an editor of that movements most widely read magazine...things, a New Left mover and shaker closely associated with the...individuals like Huey Newton and movements like ours" that expected to...gay organizations, the green movement, and the like. Can there...
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A Lifelong Pursuit: Officially Retired after a Career of Nearly Thirty Years, Carolyn Adams Remains a Mover and Shaker in the Dance World by Holding Down Key Summer Jobs at Jacob's Pillow and Saratoga

Magazine article by Muriel Topaz; Dance Magazine, Vol. 68, July 1994

Subjects:

Adams, Carolyn--Biography, Dancers--Biography, Paul Taylor Dance Company--Personalities

Collections: Entire Library

...Carolyn Adams remains a mover and shaker in the dance world by holding...wanted to get there. But Taylors movement fit her body like a glove...relationship, and her abilities and movement preferences clearly influenced...his work. Much of his backing movement came from the way I move naturally...

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Newspaper Articles on: shaker movement

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PREZZA'S SHAKER; Deputy PM Slapped Down as He Sparks New Doubts over Blair's Leadership

Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), May 16, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

PREZZAS SHAKER; Deputy PM Slapped Down as He Sparks New...he replied: "When there is that kind of movement, people do reposition themselves." Mr...for it.... When there is that kind of movement, people do reposition themselves.""Yes...
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SCHOOLS SHAKER Hans across the Sea; NUT Fury as Heads Demand Selection

Newspaper article; Birmingham Evening Mail (England), March 12, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

SCHOOLS SHAKER Hans across the Sea; NUT Fury as Heads Demand Selection. Byline...Birmingham sec-ondary schools are threatening a major shake-up of pupil movement across the city by launching controversial selection tests. Perry Beeches...
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Cycles of Movement: Exhibition of Pedal Power Here

Newspaper article by Pat Butters; The Washington Times, September 19, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...affection for that metallic modus operandi for self-motored movement, the bicycle. And as the weather cools - as it did last weekend...The velocipede was ungainly, not efficient, and it was a bone shaker." Next came the "ordinary" or "penny farthing." With patent...
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United's Youth Movement: Team Selects Several Teens

Newspaper article by Ken Wright; The Washington Times, February 7, 2000

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Uniteds youth movement: Team selects several teens by Ken Wright FORT LAUDERDALE...Kansas City, Kerry Zavagnin, D, Lehigh Valley (Michigan). 31, New England Shaker Asad M 5-7 140 N.C. State 32 Chicago Yuri Lavrinenko M 6-0 175 Indiana...
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Into New Hampshire

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 23, 2004

Subjects:

Conyers, John, Pierce, Franklin

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Pierce was nicknamed. He was a strong proponent of slavery, yet he also fought at his own expense a law banning the Shaker movement in New Hampshire. He appointed a Jew to a federal position, welcomed Catholics to Concord and defended the rights...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: shaker movement

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Shakers

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

SHAKERS popular name for members...Millennial Church. Members of the movement, who received their name...also known as Alethians. The movement originated in a Quaker revival...1784) began the formation of Shaker communities. By 1826 there were 18 Shaker communities in eight states...

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