Suggestions for Further Reading:

Nineteenth Century New Religions

Arrington, Leonard J., and Bitton, Davis. The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-day Saints. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979.

Brewer, Priscilla J. Shaker Communities, Shaker Lives. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1986.

Brooke, John L. The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644 -- 1844. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Bull, Malcolm, and Lockhart, Keith. Seeking a Sanctuary: Seventh-day Adventism and the American Dream. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1989.

Carden, Maren Lockwood. Oneida: Utopian Community to Modern Corporation. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1969.

Chmielewski, Wendy E., Kern, Louis J., and Klee-Hartzell, Marlyn, eds. Women in Spiritual and Communitarian Societies in the United States. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1993.

Cornwall, Marie, Heaton, Tim B., and Young, Lawrence A., eds. Contemporary Mormonism: Social Science Perspectives. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Doan, Ruth Alden. The Miller Heresy, Millennialism, and American Culture. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987.

Fogarty, Robert S. All Things New: American Communes and Utopian Movements, 1860 -- 1914. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

Foster, Lawrence. Religion and Sexuality: Three American Communal Experiments of the Nineteenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.

Gaustad, Edwin Scott, ed. The Rise of Adventism,.New York: Harper R Row, 1974.

Gottschalk, Stephen. The Emergence of Christian Science in American Religious Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973.

Holloway, Mark. Heavens on Earth: Utopian Communities in America, 1680 -- 1880. Rev. ed. New York: Dover Publications, 1966.

Mauss, Armand L. The Angel and the Beehive: The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Numbers, Ronald L., and Butler, Jonathan M., eds. The Disappointed: Millerism and Millenarianism in the Nineteenth Century. 2nd ed. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1993.

Peel, Robert. Health and Medicine in the Christian Science Tradition: Principle, Practice, and Challenge. Health/Medicine and the Faith Traditions. New York: Crossroad, 1989.

Shipps, Jan. Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985.

Stein, Stephen J. The Shaker Experience in America: A History of the United Society of Believers. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.

Tabor, James D., and Gallagher, Eugene V. Why Waco? Cults and the Battle for Religious Freedom in America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

Troeltsch, Ernst. The Social Teaching of the Christian Churches. 1911. 2 vols. Translated by Olive Wyon. Reprint. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976.

Weber, Max. The Sociology of Religion. 1922. Translated from the 4th ed., rev. (1956) by Ephraim Fischoff. Boston: Beacon Press, 1963.

Additional Readings on Selected Groups

MORMONS:

Bates, Irene. Lost Legacy: The Mormon Office of Presiding Patriarch. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996.

Bitton, Davis. The Ritualizing of Mormon History, and Other Essays. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Brooke, John. The Refiner's Fire: the Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Cornwall, Marie, Tim Heaton, and Lawrence Young, eds. Contemporary Mormonism: Social Science Perspectives. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Hallwas, John and Roger Launius, eds. Cultures in Conflict: A Documentary History of the Mormon War in Illinois. Logan: Utah State University Press, 1995

Hanks, Maxine, ed. Women and Authority: Re-emerging Mormon Feminism. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1992.

Launius, Roger and Linda Thatcher, ed. Differing Visions: Dissenters in Mormon History. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994

Hardy, Carmon. Solemn Covenant: The Mormon Polygamous Passage. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992.

Hallwas, John and Roger Launius, eds. Kingdom of the Mississippi Revisited: Navoo in Mormon History. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996.

Laake, Deborah. Secret Ceremonies: a Mormon Woman's Intimate Diary of Marriage and Beyond. New York: W. Morrow, 1993.

Mauss, Armand. The Angel and the Beehive: the Mormon struggle with Assimilation. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Newell, Linda. Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Paul, Erich. Science, Religion, and Mormon Cosmology. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, .1992.

Quinn, Michael. Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-Century Americans: a Mormon Example. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996.

Taber, Susan. Mormon Lives. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.

Underwood, Grant. The Millenarian World of Early Mormonism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.


SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS:

Numbers, Ronald. Prophetess of Health: Ellen G. White and the Origins of Seventh-Day Adventist Health Reform. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1992.


CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS:

Tucker, Cynthia Grant. Healer in Harm's Way: Mary Collson, a Clergywoman in Christian Science. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1994.


SHAKERS:

Foster, Lawrence. Women, Family and Utopia: Communal experiments of the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the Mormons. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1991.

Stein, Stephen. The Shaker Experience in America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.

Burns, Deborah. Shaker Cities of Peace, Love, and Union: a History of the Hancock Bishopric. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1993.

Humez, Jean. Mother's First-Born Daughters: Early Shaker Writings on Women and Religion. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.


ONEIDA:

Hawley, Victor. Special Love/Special Sex: An Oneida Community Diary. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1994.

Chmielewski, Wendy, Louis Kern, and Marilyn Klee-Hartzell. Women in Spiritual and Communitarian Societies in the United States. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1993.