Shakers and Shakerism

Comparative Studies of Shakerism with Other Religious Groups

Foster, Lawrence. Religion and Sexuality: The Shakers, the Mormons, and the Oneida Community   (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1984) JFE 87-4233.

Foster, Lawrence. Women, Family, and Utopia: Communal Experiments of the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the Mormons   (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1991)   JFE 92-2930.

Kern, Louis J. An Ordered Love: Sex Roles and Sexuality in Victorian Utopias: The Shakers, the Mormons, and the Oneida Community   (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981)   JFE 81-1197.

Whitworth, John M. God's Blueprints: A Sociological Study of Three Utopian Sects (London: Routledge and K. Paul, 1975)  JLE 76-2028.