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Communities of Dissent
"Stephen J. Stein points out in this vivid overview, the history of alternative religion - from colonial Puritans to late-twentieth-century Branch Davidians - runs parallel to that of dissent in America. Committed to fairness of representation, Stein describes the evolution and structure of alternative religious movements from both sides; the critics and the religious dissenters themselves. He investigates obscure groups such as the nineteenth-century Vermont Pilgrims, who wore bearskins and refused to bathe or cut their hair, alongside better-known alternative believers, including colonial America's largest outsider faith, the Quakers; seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Mennonites, Amish, and Shakers; and the Christian Scientists, Jehovah's Witnesses, Black Muslims, and Scientologists of today. The book also covers the milestones in the history of alternative American religions,...
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