The woman who claimed to be Christ : the millennial belief of Mary Ann Girling and her disciples 1860-1886
This thesis focuses upon the Girlingites, or English Shakers, a millenarian movement that was characterised by a particular union of apocalyptic religion, prophecy and gender roles, in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The study narrates the history of the Girlingite movement from its found...
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University of Oxford
2007
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.491084 |