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America's communal utopias /
From the Shakers to the Branch Davidians, America's communal utopians have captured the popular imagination. Seventeen original essays here demonstrate the relevance of such groups to the mainstream of American social, religious, and economic life. The contributors examine the beliefs and pract...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©1997.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Douglas E. Pitzer
- Communitarian societies in colonial America / Donald F. Durnbaugh
- The Shakers of Mother Ann Lee / Priscilla J. Brewer
- George Rapp's Harmony Society / Karl J.R. Arndt
- The new moral world of Robert Owen and New Harmony / Donald E. Pitzer
- One heart and mind: communal life and values among the Mormons / Dean L. May
- Brook Farm and the Fourierist phalanxes: immediatism, gradualism, and American utopian socialism / Carl J. Guarneri
- The Community of True Inspiration from Germany to Amana Colonies / Jonathan G. Andelson
- Religious orders and monastic communalism in America / Lawrence J. McCrank
- Free love and community: John Humphrey Noyes and the Oneida perfectionists / Lawrence Foster
- An American elysium: the Icarian communities / Robert P. Sutton
- Eric Jansson and the Bishop Hill Colony / Jon Wagner
- Living in the ark: four centuries of Hutterite faith and community / Gertrude E. Huntington
- American Jewish agricultural colonies / Pearl W. Bartelt
- Cyrus Reed Teed and the Koreshan Unity / James E. Landing
- The Theosophical communities and their ideal of universal brotherhood / J. Gordon Melton
- California's socialist utopias / Robert V. Hine
- Father Divine and the Peace Mission / Robert S. Weisbrot
- Appendix: America's communal utopias founded by 1965 / compiled by Donald E. Pitzer
- Bibliographical essay / Donald E. Pitzer.