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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

Collective settlements -- United States -- History. --- Communal living -- United States -- History. --- Communitarianism -- United States. --- Communitarianism. --- Collective settlements --- United States --- History --- Communitarianism --- communitarian societies --- Colonial America --- the Shakers --- Mother Ann Lee --- George Rapp --- Harmony Society --- the New Moral World --- Robert Owen --- New Harmony --- communal life --- communal values --- the Mormons --- Brook Farm --- the Fourierist Phalanxes --- Immediatism --- Gradualism --- American Utopian Socialism --- the Community of True Inspiration --- Germany --- the Amana Colonies --- religious orders --- monastic communalism --- America --- Free Love --- John Humphrey Noyes --- the Oneida Perfectionists --- the Icarian communities --- Eric Jansson --- the Bishop Hill Colony --- Hutterism --- American Jewish agricultural colonies --- Cyrus Reed Teed --- the Koreshan Unity --- the Theosophical Communities --- Universal Brotherhood --- Father Divine --- the Peace Mission