The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, more commonly known as the Shakers, are a millenarian restorationist Christian sect founded c. 1747 in England and then organized in the United States in the 1780s.

2019年7月30日 · An outgrowth of Quakerism, the Shakers were a celibate group of American millennialists. Shakers influenced religion, culture, music, and aesthetics.

The “Shaking Quakers,” or Shakers, split from mainstream Quakerism in 1747 after being heavily influenced by Camisard preaching. The Shakers developed along their own lines, forming into a society with Jane and James Wardley as their leaders.

Origins of the Shakers The founder of the Shakers, Ann Lee, was a blacksmith’s daughter and a mill hand in Manchester, England. Looking for a more personal and emotional religion than the official Church of England, in 1758 she joined a group called the …

2025年2月21日 · The Shakers derived originally from a small branch of English Quakers founded by Jane and James Wardley in 1747. They may have adopted the French Camisard s’ ritual practices of shaking, shouting, dancing, whirling, and singing in tongues.

In 1774 Ann Lee, the charismatic, illiterate daughter of a blacksmith, brought a small group of followers to the United States from Manchester, England. Known officially as the United Society of Believers, the Shakers moved upstate in 1776 and settled near Albany in what is now Watervliet.

The Shakers left England for the English colonies in North America in 1774. As they gained converts, the Shakers established numerous communities in the late-18th century through the entire 19th century.

The Shakers were celibate, they did not marry or bear children, yet theirs is the most enduring religious experiment in American history.

The Shakers are a small Protestant religious denomination founded in Manchester, England in the mid-1700’s as a dissident group of the Society of Friends (Quakers).

2024年9月11日 · By 1850, there were nearly 4,000 Shakers, and over the last 200 years, over 20,000 Americans have spent at least a fraction of their lives as Shakers. However, by the 1860s, Shakerism began to decline as the Spiritualist Movement took hold of many communities.