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The Shakers: Why Do 18th-Century Utopians Appeal to Us?
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Known for furniture and celibacy, why might the Shakers and their legacy speak to our digital age? A group of artists, scholars, and museum professionals discuss this and much more.
For most people, the Shakers are more of a brand than a faith. If most people know anything about them, it is their simple lifestyle and carefully-crafted furniture. Shaker-inspired chairs and cabinets appear in home design magazines, and 19th-century Shaker furniture can be found in art museums and in private collections. Yet the Shakers were much more than their furniture, and their legacy informs our modern longings far more than we may realize.
The United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, as the Shakers called themselves, was one of the most successful and long-lived utopian societies in America. They believed in radical gender and racial equality long before those movements gained popular appeal and their spiritual practices included ecstatic dance and spirit drawings alongside quiet reflection and somber prayer. As one of the last living Shakers quipped a few years ago: “I don’t want to be remembered as a chair.”
Panelists:
Kathryn Reklis, associate professor of theology, Fordham University
Lacy Schutz, Executive Director, Shaker Museum
Courtney Bender, professor of religion, Columbia University
Maggie Taft, art historian, University of Chicago
Ashon T. Crawley, professor of religious studies and African-American studies, University of Virginia
Moderated by:
David Gibson, Director, Fordham University Center on Religion and Culture
Connect with Fordham CRC:
For most people, the Shakers are more of a brand than a faith. If most people know anything about them, it is their simple lifestyle and carefully-crafted furniture. Shaker-inspired chairs and cabinets appear in home design magazines, and 19th-century Shaker furniture can be found in art museums and in private collections. Yet the Shakers were much more than their furniture, and their legacy informs our modern longings far more than we may realize.
The United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, as the Shakers called themselves, was one of the most successful and long-lived utopian societies in America. They believed in radical gender and racial equality long before those movements gained popular appeal and their spiritual practices included ecstatic dance and spirit drawings alongside quiet reflection and somber prayer. As one of the last living Shakers quipped a few years ago: “I don’t want to be remembered as a chair.”
Panelists:
Kathryn Reklis, associate professor of theology, Fordham University
Lacy Schutz, Executive Director, Shaker Museum
Courtney Bender, professor of religion, Columbia University
Maggie Taft, art historian, University of Chicago
Ashon T. Crawley, professor of religious studies and African-American studies, University of Virginia
Moderated by:
David Gibson, Director, Fordham University Center on Religion and Culture
Connect with Fordham CRC:
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