Shaking the Faith: Women, Family, and Mary Marshall Dyer's Anti-Shaker Campaign, 1815-1867 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781403966124)

In 1815, Mary Marshall Dyer renounced her Shaker beliefs and departed from the religious community in Enfield, New Hampshire, that she had called her home, leaving behind her husband and five children. Angry and alone, Dyer embarked on a fifty year public campaign against the Shakers in an effort to obtain custody of her children and to discredit the sect. The American public followed the debate with great interest. De Wolfe tells this now little-known story in brilliant detail, and shows why Dyer's life captured America's imagination. Titillating details about the mysterious sect no doubt contributed to Dyer's popularity, but her story also resonated because it reflected profound changes in family, religion, and gender that Americans faced in the world before the Civil War.

Author: Kenneth A. Loparo
ISBN-10: 1403966125
ISBN-13: 9781403966124
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2004
Pages: 233
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 7.76h x 5.00w x 0.57d