After an early life marked by poverty and loss, she became Mother Ann Lee, the leading voice of Shaker theology. Everything ...

Amanda Seyfried says no to sex in the dance-fueled film "The Testament of Ann Lee," which tells the real history behind the ...

For Fastvold, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter (“The Brutalist”) and director, bringing Lee’s spiritual journey to the screen shines a big spotlight on a relatively unknown but influential historical ...

Since it premiered at the Venice International Film Festival last September, “The Testament of Ann Lee” has been ruffling feathers. First reactions ranged from withering to superlative, not to mention ...

How did a charismatic but impoverished British woman become the leader of the progressive religious sect known as "the ...

Mother Ann, as Lee was called, was one of history’s few female faith leaders, which is probably why we don’t know that much ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lee, pegged by Fastvold as the “first feminist” of colonial America, was born in Manchester, England, in 1736. She would go on to ...

Mona Fastvold’s set on “The Testament of Ann Lee” is much like the world of her subject, the founder of the Shaker religious movement in the 18th century: Immersive, wildly ambitious, utopian even, ...

With "The Testament of Ann Lee", a movie about the founder of the 18th-century Shaker religious movement screening at the Venice Film Festival, director Mona Fastvold sought to honour a figure "on the ...

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 ...

An art exhibition about the Shakers, also known as The United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, would naturally have furniture. The Institute of Contemporary Art has plenty: ladder ...