![]() As of 2019, there is only one active Shaker village: Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, in Maine. ![]() By 1920, there were only 12 Shaker communities remaining in the United States. External and internal societal changes in the mid- and late-19th century resulted in the thinning of the Shaker community as members left or died with few converts to the faith to replace them. At its peak in the mid-19th century, there were 2,000–4,000 Shaker believers living in 18 major communities and numerous smaller, often short-lived communities. They are also known for their simple living, architecture, technological innovation, music, and furniture.ĭuring the mid-19th century, an Era of Manifestations resulted in a period of dances, gift drawings, and gift songs inspired by spiritual revelations. They practice a celibate and communal utopian lifestyle, pacifism, uniform charismatic worship, and their model of equality of the sexes, which they institutionalized in their society in the 1780s. The Shakers emigrated from England and settled in Revolutionary colonial America, with an initial settlement at Watervliet, New York (present-day Colonie), in 1774. Espousing egalitarian ideals, women took on spiritual leadership roles alongside men, including founding leaders such as Jane Wardley, Ann Lee, and Lucy Wright. They were initially known as "Shaking Quakers" because of their ecstatic behavior during worship services. 1747 in England and then organized in the United States in the 1780s. The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, more commonly known as the Shakers, are a millenarian restorationist Christian sect founded c. The Shakers Harvesting Their Famous Herbs ![]()
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