Shaker Sect Sees Revival of Interest From Filmmakers and Museums (opens in new tab)

Work — and having the time or taking the time to do good work — is central to Shaker theology, which seems only right for a religion born in England’s industrial North. There’s an irony to this, however, one present in every exhibition that reifies the beautiful chairs, baskets, boxes and bureaus of the Shakers while treating their actual religion as more or less of an oddity. Like a number of other industrious sects, the Shakers separated themselves from Worldly society in three ways even...