... they were divided into families of about fifty to one hundred people, usually called brothers and sisters. The head of each family were two elders. The lay church officers called deacons helped to sign work within the family (Sammlung, 2001). The Shakers were an individual religious group whose beliefs affected their daily life. The person who actually found and started the ... about forming a religious group, and that is when she joined the Shakers and became the leader of that religious group. Her visions she was keep getting during their movement basically founded and set forth the S...

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