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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jyotsna Sreenivasan |
| ISBN: | 9781598840520 1598840525 9781598840537 1598840533 (ebook |
| OCLC Number: | 213444815 |
| Description: | xxxii, 417 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. |
| Contents: | Amana colonies -- Amish -- Ananda colonies -- Anarchism -- Antislavery communities -- Bellamy, Edward -- Bible communism -- Bishop Hill -- Bohemia Manor -- Brook Farm and Fourierist Phalanxes -- Brotherhood of the New Life -- Bruderhof -- Buddhist communities -- Burned-over district -- Camphill movement -- Capitalism -- Catholic worker movement -- Children and child rearing -- Civil rights movement -- Civil War -- Cohousing -- Cooperatives -- Cults -- Davidian and Branch Davidian movements -- Ecovillages -- Education -- Ephrata Cloister -- Fairhope and single-tax communities -- Family -- The family/children of God -- The farm -- Fellowship for intentional community -- Ferrer Colony (Stelton) -- George, Henry -- Great Depression -- Gronlund, Laurence -- Harmony Society -- Hippies -- Home colony -- House of David movement -- Hutterites -- Icarian movement -- Industrial Revolution -- International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Hare Krishna movement) -- Jerusalem/Society of Universal Friends -- Jesus People USA -- Jewish agricultural communities -- Kaweah Cooperative Commonwealth -- Keil Communities-Bethel and Aurora -- Koinonia Farm/Koinonia Partners -- Koreshan Unity -- Leadership and decision making -- Literary utopias -- Llano del Rio and New Llano -- Love family -- Millennialism -- Moravian movement -- More, Thomas -- New Deal communities -- New Harmony and Owenite movement -- Oneida Community -- Orderville and Mormon communalism -- Owen, Robert -- Pacifism -- Peace mission movement -- Persecution -- Point Loma and theosophical communities -- Rainbow Family of Living Light -- Rajneeshpuram -- Renaissance Community/Brotherhood of the Spirit -- Rugby -- Ruskin -- Shakers -- Skinner, B.F. -- Socialism -- Society of the Woman in the Wilderness -- Steiner, Rudolf -- Synanon -- Transcendentalism -- Twin Oaks Community -- Valley of the Swans -- Women, status of -- Zoar Society. |
| Responsibility: | Jyotsna Sreenivasan. |
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<p>"Sreenivasan (independent scholar) discusses 52 communal communities or movements, dating from the late 1700s to present, that were (or still are) large, longstanding, and influential in the American society. A four- to six-page entry on each community addresses the history, beliefs and practices, and daily life of the community; how the community's members made their living; leadership and decision making; recruitment of new members; care and education of children; relationship with and influence on the outside world; and (where applicable) reasons for ending the communal aspect of the movement. Some shorter entries cover selected ideologies, historic events, and major personalities that influenced the formation of these utopias. Communities included range from Amana Colonies, Brook Farm, New Harmony, and the Shakers, to the more recent Davidian-Branch Davidian movements, Hare Krishna, Peace Mission Movement, and Rainbow Family of Living Light. Entries, and the lengthy introduction as well, provide carefully chosen references and Web sites. An extensive chronology, detailed index, and effective photographs complete the volume." - <p>Choice Read more...
