The Shakers: Ibrahimi and Bortel by Maheen Ibrahimi https://padlet.com/mibrahimi/xg22ymwywf9u Discover the truth about America’s revolutionaries! en-us 2017-12-05 16:30:52 UTC 2023-06-12 08:20:49 UTC hello@padlet.com Objectives and Beliefs mibrahimi https://padlet.com/mibrahimi/xg22ymwywf9u/wish/213562757
  • Main Belief: Second coming of Christ
  • Communal living, celibacy, humility, simplicity, efficiency, and equality is the road to salvation
  • God is made up of male and female elements
  • Support active and direct communication with the dead
  • People who joined usually left since they did not put aside their self-interest
    • ]]>     2017-12-06 02:47:33 UTC https://padlet.com/mibrahimi/xg22ymwywf9u/wish/213562757     Work mibrahimi https://padlet.com/mibrahimi/xg22ymwywf9u/wish/213564078 Although equality was stressed, day-to-day work was still based on traditional gender roles
    • Women: cloth making, cleaning, weaving, taking care of children, cooking
    • Men: outside work, heavy manufacturing
    ]]>     2017-12-06 03:00:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mibrahimi/xg22ymwywf9u/wish/213564078     Religious Services mibrahimi https://padlet.com/mibrahimi/xg22ymwywf9u/wish/213564984 One of the most prominent features of Shaker life, the religious services they held were different from others.
    • Attended by both Shakers and non-Shakers
    • Involved hand-clapping, dancing, singing, stomping, shaking, shouting, etc.
    • Allows Shakers to let out bottled emotions
    ]]>     2017-12-06 03:03:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mibrahimi/xg22ymwywf9u/wish/213564984     Shakers Life Style mibrahimi https://padlet.com/mibrahimi/xg22ymwywf9u/wish/213566497
  • Very simple lives
  • Focused on farming
  • Invented objects such as the circular saw, flat broom, and revolving oven
  • VIDEO: displays the Shakers way of life with examples
    • ]]>     2017-12-06 03:11:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mibrahimi/xg22ymwywf9u/wish/213566497     What was Achieved? mibrahimi https://padlet.com/mibrahimi/xg22ymwywf9u/wish/213566737 Economic
    • Sold seeds in packages: became very successful
    • Invented circular saw, brimstone match, flat broom, and revolving oven
    • Developed a multi-state corporation with over 100,000 acres of land
    Social
    • Open to orphaned children
    • Open to other cultures like American Indians and Jews
    • Usually up-to-date on technology; first to use modern conveniences
    ]]>     2017-12-06 03:14:04 UTC https://padlet.com/mibrahimi/xg22ymwywf9u/wish/213566737     What was Unsuccessful? mibrahimi https://padlet.com/mibrahimi/xg22ymwywf9u/wish/213567371 Religious
    • Celibacy was not very appealing
    • Hostile to unorthodox practices
    • Difficult to place community’s interests ahead of their own
    Social
    • Unwilling to share property or spouses
    • Unstable leadership
    • Indiscriminate admission of members
    • Decreased enthusiasm in religious practices
    ]]>     2017-12-06 03:21:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mibrahimi/xg22ymwywf9u/wish/213567371     Early Life mibrahimi https://padlet.com/mibrahimi/xg22ymwywf9u/wish/213693086
  • Born in Manchester, England in 1736
  • Remained illiterate so had to work in textile mills
  • Worked in an infirmary and madhouse in her twenties
  • Observed alcohol abuses and human corruption
    • Caused her to develop hatred for human depravity and sex
    • ]]>     2017-12-06 14:00:52 UTC https://padlet.com/mibrahimi/xg22ymwywf9u/wish/213693086     The Wardley Society mibrahimi https://padlet.com/mibrahimi/xg22ymwywf9u/wish/213695819
  • Joined the Wardley Society in 1758
  • Taught that the second coming of Christ was near
  • Wardleys were impressed with her motivation and potential
  • TURNING POINT: married a blacksmith and had four children, who all died in infancy or childbirth
    • She thought she displeased God, so she became celibate
  • Developed different views from the Wardley Society and separated
    • ]]>     2017-12-06 14:05:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mibrahimi/xg22ymwywf9u/wish/213695819     The Shakers mibrahimi https://padlet.com/mibrahimi/xg22ymwywf9u/wish/213701117
  • In 1770, she experienced a vision that she was the female successor to Jesus
  • Her gospel: life with God begins by confession and is perfected by denial of the lusts of the flesh through celibacy
  • Acquired more followers
  • Restricted to practice in England so moved to America for freedom
  • In 1776, they were neither for England or America in the Revolutionary War since they were pacifists
  • Moved away from New York to a Niskeyuna and began the first Shaker community
    • ]]>     2017-12-06 14:14:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mibrahimi/xg22ymwywf9u/wish/213701117     Near Death mibrahimi https://padlet.com/mibrahimi/xg22ymwywf9u/wish/213711461
  • Began a mission to spread the importance of Shakerism
  • Beliefs were attractive to Free Will Baptists and “New Light” Presbyterians
  • Often confronted by violent mobs
  • Lee’s brother was severely injured and died in 1784
  • Lee became depressed and passed away on September 8th, 1784
    • ]]>     2017-12-06 14:31:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mibrahimi/xg22ymwywf9u/wish/213711461     mibrahimi https://padlet.com/mibrahimi/xg22ymwywf9u/wish/213715742 2017-12-06 14:38:42 UTC https://padlet.com/mibrahimi/xg22ymwywf9u/wish/213715742