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17166
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English
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Early Mormon and Shaker Visions of Sanctified Community
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BYU Studies
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2005
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44
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no.1
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79-110
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This article "is an elaboration of the meanings of religious community manifested in the theologies, organizations, and settlements led by Joseph Smith and Joseph Meacham. The two leaders dominated the theology of their movements in the early-nineteenth and late-eighteenth centuries, respectively, and their theologies in turn shaped their communities. Although each founder's vision of sanctified community was adjusted subsequently, the original frameworks persisted in modified form long into the history of each. Indeed, the historical procession of each movement across the years bears the imprint of these early visions. Mounting similar responses to shared concerns about their world, Mormons and Shakers nonetheless took very different paths across the nineteenth century. Ultimately, the differences between Smith's and Meacham's visions of religious community helped define the survival and expansion of each movement. Their approaches and concerns can be compared at four junctures: their attainment of leadership, their reasons for building Zion, the social and physical characteristics of their communities, and their conception of Zion in sacred history." (taken from author's introduction)
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