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From Pat Deveney's database:
Manifesto, The. This was the official organ of several
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| Manifesto V14 1884 | |
| Manifesto V15 1885 | |
| Manifesto V16 1886 | |
| Manifesto V17 1887 | |
| Manifesto V18 1888 | |
| Manifesto V19 1889 | |
| Manifesto V20 1890 | |
| Manifesto V21 1891 | |
| Manifesto V22 1892 | |
| Manifesto V23 1893 | |
| Manifesto V24 1894 | |
| Manifesto V25 1895 | |
| Manifesto V26 1896 | |
| Manifesto V27 1897 | |
| Manifesto V28 1898 | |
| Manifesto V29 1899 | |
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The Manifesto was the official periodical of the Shakers — the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing — in the closing decades of the nineteenth century, succeeding the earlier papers The Shaker and The Shaker Manifesto. Its pages record the life of a celibate communal society: meeting notices and testimonies from the villages, questions of land and shared labour, obituaries of aged members, and the society's distinctive theology, in which Christ's second appearing has already occurred and the perfected community is itself the beginning of the millennium. Two threads connect it to the wider world this archive documents. The Shakers had a mediumistic history of their own in the Era of Manifestations, when from the late 1830s spirit messages, songs and drawings moved through the villages a full decade before the Rochester rappings, and the residue of that episode is still visible here. And the Shakers took a practical interest in the reform sciences of their neighbours, engaging the phrenologists of the Fowler & Wells circle by name and carrying the period's dietary and hygienic enthusiasms. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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| Millenarianism and Prophetic Religion | Utopian and Communal Living |
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