The Culture of Shaker Placenames: Sacred Geography and Communal Biography
Abstract From 1776 to 1898, the Shakers established over twenty villages across the eastern and midwestern United States. Shaker theology and communitarianism defined the basis for the spiritual names of these settlements and the pragmatic descriptors that identified sites and buildings within each...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
2003-12-01
|
| Series: | Names |
| Online Access: | http://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/view/1695 |