@misc{Goodwillie2025,
       author = "Goodwillie, Christian",
       title =  {{Alpha and Omega: The 1804 Shaker Church of Christ Missionary Letter and Richard McNemar’s 1838 Draft of an Answer}},
       howpublished = "\url{https://ir.hamilton.edu/do/c3d22318-4c40-4588-8144-f5180721f941}",
       journal = {American Communal Societies Quarterly},
       year = 2025,
       month = jan,
       volumen = {19},
       number = {1},
       pages = {27--49},
       issn = {1939-473X},
}

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January 1st, 2025

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2025-01-01

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Shaker Richard McNemar functioned as a "minuteman” for the Shaker cause west of the Appalachians. From the moment of his conversion in 1805, McNemar turned his time and talents fully to the promotion and defense of Shakerism. Following a series of unfortunate developments in the 1830s—the eroding infiltration of Swedenborgianism, defalcation of Union Village trustees, and incompetent leadership in the Ohio Shaker Ministry—McNemar was faced with the sad reality of the state of the western Shaker communities.

Source Title

American Communal Societies Quarterly

ISSN

1939-473X

Volume

19

Issue

1

First Page

27

Last Page

49

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