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Issachar Bates : A Shaker's Journey /
Issachar Bates (1758-1837) was a Revolutionary War veteran in rural upstate New York who, at the age of forty-three, abruptly turned from his family life to become a celibate Shaker. He immediately became instrumental in Shakerism's westward expansion, and his personal charisma, persuasive prea...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hanover :
University Press of New England,
2013
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : "Now here's my faith I'll speak it plain"
- "Signs and Wonders" : Early Life, Spiritual Preparation, and the Coming of the Shakers
- "Take the bloody track of war" : A Fifer in the American Revolution
- "I'm journeying with those who I love in the flesh" : Issachar Bates as Husband and Provider
- "A testimony as hot as flames" : Shaker Conversion and Early Travels
- "Like God's Hunters" : Seeking Kindred in the West
- "Thorns and thistles did abound" : The Growth of the Shaker West
- "What trials yet before us lay" : Tribulation on the Wabash
- "And with much animation we lived at Busro" : An Elder in Indiana
- "Remnant of the tribe of Issachar": The Bates Kinship Network in the Shaker East
- "The Cockatrice still wants a place in Zion's lovely regions" : Transformations in the Shaker West
- "Tribulation Worketh Patience" : A Bitter Close in the West
- "So I'll relinquish all demands" : Journey's End at New Lebanon
- Epilogue : "Elder Issachar seems to be continually at hand".