Shakers
Trembling worship community
Shakers are members of a Christian sect founded in 18th-century England, formally known as the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing.
The name comes from their ecstatic trembling during worship.
Shakers lived in celibate communities, made famously simple furniture, and declined to near-extinction by the 20th century: Shaker furniture fetches high prices at auction. (Lowercase shakers are containers for dispensing salt or pepper.)
Abstaining from intimate relations
- communalismGroup-centered social organization
- simplicityLack of complexity
- austerityEnforced economic stringency
- equalitySame status for all
pacifism · utopianism · spiritualism · perfectionism · asceticism · Mount Lebanon · Canterbury · meeting house
Lack of complexity
- craftsmanshipSkill in making objects
- joineryFitting wood pieces together
- woodworkingCraft of shaping lumber
- cabinetryFine woodwork furniture craft
built-ins · functionality · minimalism · handcrafted · dovetail · cherry · maple · pine
Pacifist Protestant denomination
- AmishTraditional simple-living sect
- MennonitesProtestant Anabaptist denomination
- theosophyMystical divine knowledge system
- MormonismRestorationist Christian denomination
Jehovah's Witnesses · Millerites · Transcendentalism · utopian · revivalism · Second Great Awakening · nineteenth century
celibacy
Abstaining from intimate relations
- communalismGroup-centered social organization
- simplicityLack of complexity
- austerityEnforced economic stringency
equality · pacifism · utopianism · spiritualism · perfectionism · asceticism · Mount Lebanon · Canterbury · meeting house · worship
simplicity
Lack of complexity
- craftsmanshipSkill in making objects
- joineryFitting wood pieces together
- woodworkingCraft of shaping lumber
cabinetry · built-ins · functionality · minimalism · handcrafted · dovetail · cherry · maple · pine · Mount Lebanon
Quakers
Pacifist Protestant denomination
- AmishTraditional simple-living sect
- MennonitesProtestant Anabaptist denomination
- theosophyMystical divine knowledge system
Mormonism · Jehovah's Witnesses · Millerites · Transcendentalism · utopian · revivalism · Second Great Awakening · nineteenth century
- FaithsChristians, Catholics, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews
- religionsChristianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism
- ChristiansCatholics, Catholic, Protestants, Protestant, Baptist
- Christian CommunitiesHutterites, Amish, Mennonites, Moravians, Anabaptists
- Communescommunes, communal living, kibbutz, hippie commune, utopian communities
- football nicknamesGunners, the blues, Reds, Blues, Wolves
- shake handsMutual palm-grip greeting
- shake offRemove by vigorous motion
- shake it offDismiss and move on
- shaken upEmotionally disturbed or reorganized
- salt shakerSeasoning dispenser with holes
- shake upDrastically reorganize or unsettle
shake, shaken, handshake, shaker, milkshake, unshaken, saltshaker, unshakeable, shakeable