Shakers

Shakers is the smallest club in the world, and yet they have a giant searchlight atop the building such as you would find at an awards ceremony on ITV.

Burnham-on-sea « Sven’s guide to… 2007

Quakers to whom the name Shakers was given because of their bodily agitations under the supposed influence of spiritual forces in their religious meetings.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

The Shakers were a pastoral people with simple tastes, but they ate well.

One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010

The Shakers were a reverent group who thought long and hard about their place in the universe.

Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman faked it. Ann Althouse 2009

I suspect the best parallel that one could draw from the Shakers is the need to be agile in response to changing demographic, economic, and cultural trends.

Shakers and Unitarian Universalists -- Can We Adapt to Change? Steve Caldwell 2009

I suspect the best parallel that one could draw from the Shakers is the need to be agile in response to changing demographic, economic, and cultural trends.

Archive 2009-03-01 Steve Caldwell 2009

These people are called Shakers from their peculiar form of adoration, which consists of a dance, performed by the men and women of all ages, who arrange themselves for that purpose in opposite parties: the men first divesting themselves of their hats and coats, which they gravely hang against the wall before they begin; and tying a ribbon round their shirt-sleeves, as though they were going to be bled.

American Notes for General Circulation 2007

The Shakers were a little unusual--any sect that chooses celibacy for ALL its members is going to have a challenging time reproducing itself--but I admire their love of simplicity.

Archive 2005-05-01 Emma Goldman 2005

In that same year the celibate communitarian sect called the Shakers attained a greater number of members than at any other time in its history.

The Wandering Jewish Prophet in New York Wood, Gordon S. 1994

The Shakers are a UTOPIAN GROUP known for their austere, utilitarian, architecture and furnishing which practice CELIBACY and communal living.

Concise Dictionary of Religion 1993