Art, music, and spiritual history align this month with two fantastic films that examine the legacy of the Shaker religious movement in American and its surprising cultural aftershocks.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the mid-1700s, Ann Lee helped start a religious movement preaching absolutely no sex. Nearly three centuries later, the Shaker ...

A new film, “The Testament of Ann Lee,” is shining a spotlight on the religious group that established two villages in New Hampshire A new film playing in theaters now, “The Testament of Ann Lee,” is ...

In theory, “The Testament of Ann Lee” is a film about the birth of the Shaker religion in the 18th century, told through the story of its founder, Ann Lee. But in practice, it’s two hours of crazy ...

Many of the tenets that 18th-century Shaker movement founder Ann Lee espoused hundreds of years ago could well enlighten today’s not-always-inclusive culture, says Amanda Seyfried. Related Articles ...

The Shakers were a utopian, egalitarian religious group, originally an offshoot of the Quaker community in eighteenth-century England, whose adherents dedicated themselves to God by separating ...

Any film that dares to cover the life of a spiritual leader will likely run right into a high level of skepticism, scrutiny, derision and, yes, even some old-fashioned acceptance. Religion does hold ...

“The Testament of Ann Lee” refuses to be defined by a single genre. At once a historical drama, a psychological portrait and a folk musical, the film is powerful because it transcends definition. As a ...