Testimonies of the Life, Character, Revelations and Doctrines of Mother Ann Lee, and the Elders With Her

Testimonies of the Life, Character, Revelations and Doctrines of Mother Ann Lee, and the Elders With Her
Author: Rufus Bishop
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2017-12-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780484700825

Excerpt from Testimonies of the Life, Character, Revelations and Doctrines of Mother Ann Lee, and the Elders With Her: Through Whom the Word of Eternal Life Was Opened in This Day, of Christ's Second Appearing, Collected From Living Witnesses, in Union With the Church Having been eye and ear witnesses of all that our blessed Mother and the first Elders have done and] taught among us, from the time they first opened the Gospel in America, till they left this world, it seems good to us, in answer to the request of our beloved Brethren and Sisters, who have never seen those blessed Ministers of Christ, in the body, to make a faithful record of those precepts and examples, and other cotemporary events, which most eminently manifest their real characters. The work of God, in the dispensations of His grace to a lost world, being contrary to all the desires and inclina tions of an evil nature, is, of course, always manifested in a way contrary to all the calculations and expectations of the natural man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Mother Ann Lee

Mother Ann Lee
Author: Nardi Reeder Campion
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1990
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780874515275

Originally published in 1976 as Anne the Word, this is a popular biography of colorful and controversial Shaker founder Ann Lee.

Ann the Word

Ann the Word
Author: Richard Francis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2013-07-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1611456436

Ann Lee is perhaps one of the most remarkable and mystifying women in the history of Western culture. Few could have imagined that humble beginnings in Manchester, England, would lead to the illiterate daughter of a blacksmith overcoming personal anguish and increasingly Puritanical sentiments in England and rising to become a visionary religious leader, thought by her followers to have been the second incarnation of Christ. After the deaths of her four children, Ann was committed to an insane asylum. While committed she received the revelation that she was Ann the Word, the female embodiment of Christ. Upon her release, she assumed leadership of the Shaking Quakers, or Shakers, a local religious cult known for erratic fits of divine shaking, passionate song and dance, speaking in tongues, and a belief that the millennium heralding the end of the world had come. Escaping persecution, she emigrated with a small band of Shakers to America in 1774. Charges of witchcraft and spying followed Lee wherever she went as she began an ambitious mission of conversion, establishing communities across New England. In the first serious biography about this spirited, captivating leader, Richard Francis provides “the best portrait to date of . . . [a] heroic, indomitable, mesmerizing woman” (Sunday Telegraph), a trail-blazer whose feminizing influence upon Christianity was marked progress for women of her time and long after. He also demonstrates the aura and strangeness of the radical Shakers during their militant years and in so doing, poignantly recreates a “remote prophetic world” (Evening Standard), bursting with mystery and intrigue.

The Shaker Experience in America

The Shaker Experience in America
Author: Stephen J. Stein
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 574
Release: 1992-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0300051395

Draws on oral and written testimony to trace the history and evolution of the Shakers, set within the broader context of American life

Shaker Autobiographies, Biographies and Testimonies, 1806–1907 Vol 1

Shaker Autobiographies, Biographies and Testimonies, 1806–1907 Vol 1
Author: GlendyneR Wergland
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 794
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1351548859

In the late eighteenth century a small Shaker community travelled to America under the leadership of ?Mother Ann? Lee. The American communities they founded were based on ideals of pacifism, celibacy and gender equality. The texts included in this edition come from first-hand accounts of life in the Shaker communities during the nineteenth century.

Women, Family, and Utopia

Women, Family, and Utopia
Author: Lawrence Foster
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1992-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780815625353

An examination of women's roles, family relationships, and sexuality in three unorthodox 19th-century communal experiments, with analysis of the implications such systems may have for present-day Americans concerned with the sense of crisis in family life and sex roles.

O Sisters Ain't You Happy?

O Sisters Ain't You Happy?
Author: Suzanne R. Thurman
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2001-12-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780815629344

In her account of the founding, golden years, and eventual demise of the two Massachusetts villages, Thurman (history, U. of Alabama- Huntsville) augments the narrative history with discussion of how gender, family, and community functioned in them. They were founded by English-born visionary Ann Lee. She called her sect the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, but they were commonly known as Shakers or Believers. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR