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Why The Shakers Danced, And Why Their Dancing Scandalized Other American Protestants

DANCE Posted: August 29, 2019 11:01 am

“Shaker dance both embodied and performed a gender-egalitarian community, one whose primary method of reproduction was not sexual.” (They increased their numbers through recruitment, for which their singing and dancing were effective tools.) “But their worship practices were reviled as both promiscuous and racially aberrant.” – JSTOR Daily

DANCE Published: 08.21.19

Read the story in JSTOR Daily Published: 08.21.19

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