Why The Shakers Danced, And Why Their Dancing Scandalized Other American Protestants by Artsjournal1

"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

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