Work and Worship Among the Shakers by Edmund Deming Andrews and Faith Andrews

Work and Worship Among the Shakers explores how the United Society of Believers integrated spiritual faith into daily economic life, framing labor as a form of living prayer and religious devotion. The text details how this theology drove a communal, high-quality economy, functional craftsmanship, and surprising technological innovation, while ultimately detailing how external industrial competition and internal celibacy led to their decline.