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America's Communal Utopias
Pitzer
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Description for America's Communal Utopias
Paperback. From the Shakers to the Branch Davidians, America's communal utopians have captured the popular imagination. These 17 essays seek to demonstrate the relevance of such groups to the mainstream of American social, religious, and economic life, examining those founded before 1965. Editor(s): Pitzer, Donald E. Num Pages: 592 pages, 50 illustrations, 2 maps, notes, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; HRA; HRLP7; JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 34. Weight in Grams: 816.
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 practices of the most prominent utopian communities founded before 1965, including the long-overlooked Catholic monastic communities and Jewish agricultural colonies. Also featured are the Ephrata Baptists, Moravians, Shakers, Harmonists, Hutterites, Inspirationists of Amana, Mormons, Owenites, Fourierists, Icarians, Janssonists, Theosophists, Cyrus Teed's Koreshans, and Father Divine's Peace Mission. Based on a new conceptual framework known as developmental communalism, the book ... Read more
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 practices of the most prominent utopian communities founded before 1965, including the long-overlooked Catholic monastic communities and Jewish agricultural colonies. Also featured are the Ephrata Baptists, Moravians, Shakers, Harmonists, Hutterites, Inspirationists of Amana, Mormons, Owenites, Fourierists, Icarians, Janssonists, Theosophists, Cyrus Teed's Koreshans, and Father Divine's Peace Mission. Based on a new conceptual framework known as developmental communalism, the book ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807846094
SKU
V9780807846094
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About Pitzer
Donald E. Pitzer, professor of history and director of the Center for Communal Studies at the University of Southern Indiana, is a founder and former executive director of the Communal Studies Association.
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