TY - BOOK ID - 77878452 TI - America's Communal Utopias PY - 1997 SN - 080789897X 9780807898970 9781469604459 1469604450 080782299X 9780807822999 0807846090 9780807846094 PB - Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, DB - UniCat KW - Collective settlements -- United States -- History. KW - Communal living -- United States -- History. KW - Communitarianism -- United States. KW - Communitarianism. KW - Collective settlements KW - United States KW - History KW - Communitarianism KW - communitarian societies KW - Colonial America KW - the Shakers KW - Mother Ann Lee KW - George Rapp KW - Harmony Society KW - the New Moral World KW - Robert Owen KW - New Harmony KW - communal life KW - communal values KW - the Mormons KW - Brook Farm KW - the Fourierist Phalanxes KW - Immediatism KW - Gradualism KW - American Utopian Socialism KW - the Community of True Inspiration KW - Germany KW - the Amana Colonies KW - religious orders KW - monastic communalism KW - America KW - Free Love KW - John Humphrey Noyes KW - the Oneida Perfectionists KW - the Icarian communities KW - Eric Jansson KW - the Bishop Hill Colony KW - Hutterism KW - American Jewish agricultural colonies KW - Cyrus Reed Teed KW - the Koreshan Unity KW - the Theosophical Communities KW - Universal Brotherhood KW - Father Divine KW - the Peace Mission UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77878452 AB - 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, I ER -