Shaking the Faith: Women, Family, and Mary Marshall Dyer's Anti-Shaker Campaign, 1815-1867

by Elizabeth A. DeWolfe

Book Overview

Winner of the 2003 Communal Studies Association Outstanding Publication Award When Mary Marshall Dyer (1780-1867) joined the Shakers in 1813 with her husband and five children, she thought she had found salvation. But two years later, she fled the sect, calling them subversive of Christian morality and a danger to American society. When her husband and the Shaker authorities denied her request for the return of her children, Dyer joined forces with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312295030
• ISBN13: 9780312295035
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.6"