TY - BOOK AU - Davenport,Stewart TI - Sex and sects: the story of Mormon polygamy, Shaker celibacy, and Oneida complex marriage T2 - American spirituality SN - 0813947073 AV - BT708 .D3835 2022 U1 - 261.8/350973 23/eng/20211014 PY - 2022/// CY - Charlottesville PB - University of Virginia Press KW - Shakers KW - History KW - Oneida Community KW - fast KW - Sex KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - Latter Day Saint churches KW - Sexualité KW - Aspect religieux KW - Christianisme KW - RELIGION / Philosophy KW - bisacsh KW - United States KW - Church history KW - 19th century KW - Religious life and customs KW - États-Unis KW - Histoire religieuse KW - 19e siècle KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Prologue: The Perfectionist snow-bound funeral orgy of 1839 and what this book is not about -- More -- Metanarrative -- Marriage -- Spiritual -- Sexual -- Institutional -- Shaker family drama -- Polygamy and persecution at Nauvoo : the Mormons, 1842-1844 -- "A scatteration at Oneida" -- Succession, relocation, and proclamation : the Mormons, 1844-1852 -- Selfishness and status -- Control -- Revival -- Gender -- Children -- The Shakers, from revolution to refuge -- The triumph of bread and butter at Oneida -- The war on polygamy and the temporal salvation of the Mormon Church N2 - "Sex and Sects tells the story of three religiously inspired sexual innovations in America--Shaker celibacy, Mormon polygamy, and the Oneida Community's free love. It explores why these bold experiments rose and then fell primarily over the course of the nineteenth century and almost exclusively within the confines of the new American republic. Rather than view them through a social-scientific lens, Sex and Sects traces their fascinating shared trajectory as they emerged, struggled, institutionalized, and declined in tandem"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3095321 ER -