Communal Societies, Vol. 29 No.2, 2009

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Content

Articles

LUCY JAYNE KAMAU
New Harmony, the Owen Brothers, and the Origin of the Smithsonian

JADE AGUILAR
Internet Technology’s Impact on Intentional Communities: A Case Study of Acorn Community

BRADLEY C. WHITSEL
Marie Ogden and the Home Of Truth: A Millennial Prophet and the Life and Decline of her Community

Reflections

STEPHEN J. PATERWIC
The Ongoing Shaker Covenant

LAURA KOHL JOHNSTON
Seeing the Faces

Reviews

JYOTSNA SREENIVASAN
Utopias in American History; Lucy Jayne Kamau

JAMES KOPP
Eden Within Eden: Oregon’s Utopian Heritage; Charles P. LeWarne

RAMON SENDER BARAYON
A Planetary Sojourn: Stories, Articles, Essays, Letters and Four Recipes for Bliss; Timothy Millet

ROD JANZEN
Paul Tschettei•: The Story of a Hutterite Immigrant Leader. Pioneer and Pastor; Max Stanton

JOSEPH KIP KOSEK
Acts of Conscience: Christian Nonviolence and Modern American Democracy; Dan McKanan

Cover

The 1794 Moses Johnson Meetinghouse at Sabbathday Lake Shaker community. August 1974. Photograph courtesy of the United Society of Shakers.