Mormonism for another....
and few people know that the Oneida Silversmiths actually started out as a quasi religion that practiced wink/wink multiple bedding partners....and Oneida/Sherrill NY is not that far from Palmyra as the crow flies....
I read somewhere that Joey smith copied them in some of his ideas about “plural marriage”...
His whole family were ex-communicated from the Presbyterian Church in Palmyra, NY on March 29, 1830...
Two weeks later Joey started his own religion...
the Smiths had been spreading Joey Smith’s religious ideas...they may have included his Oneidan like activities...
The earliest record of Joey’s extramarital affairs was the very next year, 1831, with Fanny Alger, but he may have started earlier than that...he wasnt exactly the boy next door..
Immorality and espounding a belief in “multiple bed partners” for “exaltation” and “godhood” and entrance into an afterlife, as Joey Smith preached, would have been ample to be asked to leave a Christian Church...
Especially since that was going on near Palmyra with other groups...
The Presbyterian minister had a duty to ptotect the flock...
You mentioned the Shakers...
one of the early mormons, Martin Harris had been religion shopping before he came to mormonism...
He joined aboput 3 religions including the Campbellites before he helped Joey Smith write his book of mormon ...
and about 8 later, the Shakers included...
Yes. (It wasn't called the "burned-over district" for nothin')