Description

This 20-page booklet gives short descriptions of historic communal sites to visit, plus contact information. Softcover.

Articles

• HOLLY FOLK, Zion City: A Theocratic Municipality, With a Coda on Ave Maria.
• JAMES HORROX, City Communes in Israel: Prolegomena to a Morphology  Urban Communalism.
• CAROL MEDLICOTT, Our spiritual ancestors: Alonzo Hollister’s Record of Shaker “Pioneers” in the West.
• ADAM KRAKOWSKI, Stillness at Last: Preservation of the Built Environment at Sabbathday Lake.

Document

• ELENA BROSLOVSKY, Thickened Light” and the Lengthened Shadow of Charles F. Dederich.

Reviews

• CHARLES LE WARNE, The Love Israel Family: Urban Commune, Rural Commune, Holly Folk.
• JOEL NATHAN ROSEN, From New Lanark to Mound Bayou: Owenism in the Mississippi Delta, Lucy Jayne Kamau.
• JAN MARTIN BANG, Ed. Camphill: From Founding Seed to Worldwide Movement, Dan McKanan.
• CARL BENTON STRAUB, An Honorable Harvest: Shakers and the Natural World, Carol Medlicott.
• HENRY NEAR, Where Community Happens: The Kibbutz and the Philosophy of Communalism, Bill Metcalf.
• JOHN NEWTON, The Double Rainbow: James K. Baxter, Ngati Hau and the Jerusalem Commune, Bill Metcalf.

Description

Size is 12×16” (not including handles), material is woven polyester.

Content

Articles

• LAWRENCE FOSTER, When Do Millennial Religious Movements Become. Politically Revolutionary?: A Comparative Analysis of the Oneida Community, the Taiping Rebellion, and the Mormons during the Nineteenth Century
• JONATHAN G. ANDELSON, The Challenge of Sustainability: A Cautionary Tale from Amana
• CHRISTIAN GOODWILLIE, “Dear Friend and Brother”: Ernest F. McGregor and the Shakers

Reviews

• DENISE A. SEACHRIST, Snow Hill: In the Shadows of the Ephrata Cloister. Walter A. Brumm.
• NEWELL C. BRINGHURST AND JOHN C. HAMER, EDS., Scattering of the Saints: Schism within Mormonism. Holly Folk.
• MARIO S. DEPILLIS AND CHRISTIAN GOODWILLIE, WITH PHOTOGRAPHY BY MICHAEL FREDERICKS, Gather Up the Fragments: The Andrews Shaker Collection. Lawrence Foster.
• ILYON WOO, The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth Century Mother’s Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times. Marlyn McGary Klee.
• VIRGIL VOGT, ED., The Roots of CONCERN: Writings on Anabaptist Renewal, 1952-1957. David Lukens.
• J.C. HALLMAN, In Utopia: Six Kinds of Eden and the Search for a Better Paradise. Etta M. Madden.
• KATHERINE CARTE ENGEL, Religion and Profit: Moravians in Early America. Denise A. Seachrist.
• JOHN CURL, For All the People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements and Communalism in America. Chris Rice.
• RHODA JANZEN, Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home. Joanna Wiebe.

Cover

Elder Henry C. Blinn of the Canterbury, New Hampshire, Shaker community. Circa 1880. Courtesy of Hamilton College, Communal Societies Collection, Brooker Collection.

A compilation of Issues 1-25 of the CSA’s journal Communal Societies in PDF form.  Each article is searchable individually.

Articles

• LYNN RAINARD, Dissolution as an Act of Creation: The Koreshan Unity
• SIMON M. EVANS, Alberta Hutterite Colonies: An Exploration of Past, Present and Future Settlement Patterns
• ANTHONY WONDERLEY, How Women Worked in the Oneida Community during the 1870s
• PETER HOEHNLE, The Jasper Colony: A German Utopia on the Iowa Prairie

Reflections

• SANDY BROWN JENSEN, Burden of Light: The Emissary of Divine Light; Myth System as a Unifying Community Force
• JASON STORBAKKEN, Radical Living

Reviews

• ROBERT RHODES, Nightwatch: An Inquiry into Solitude: Alone on the Prairie with Chris Rice
• SHYAM DODGE, Wet Hot and Wild: American Yogi; Margaret Hollenbach
• LAURA JOHNSTON KOHL, Jonestown Survivor: An Insider’s Look; Ruth Lambach
• KRISTINA, CELESTE AND JULIANA, Not Without My Sister: The True Story of Three Girls Violated and Betrayed; Ruth Lambach
• CHRISTIAN GOODWILLIE AND JANE CROSTHWAITE, Millennial Praises: A Shaker Hymnal; Carol Medlicott
• MARK MATTHEWS, Droppers: America’s First Hippie Commune, Drop City; Timothy Miller
• JULIA DUIN, Days of Fire and Glory: The Rise and Fall of a Charismatic Community;
  Chris Rice

Cover

The “Dome” at Sunrise Ranch, near Loveland, Colorado, 1982. This is one of the largest wood-framed geodesic domes in existence. Photograph cour­tesy of Michael Paige. Portland, Oregon.

Articles

• TIMOTHY MILLER, A Matter of Definition: Just What is an Intentional Community?
• JOSHUA LOCKYER, Intentional Communities and Sustainability
• KATHRYN TURNER, Becoming “Two-in-One:” Imaginary Space and Androgyny in Koreshan Universology
• DAVID R. SWARTZ, A Third Way: The Politics of Spiritual Community in the Evangelical Left

Document

• SOPHIE LENZ, George Rapp and the Harmony Society, Robin White and Joe White

Reflection

• UNDERSTANDING R. ISRAEL, Soul To Keep

Reviews

• TIMOTHY HODGDON, Manhood in the Age of Aquarius, Deborah Altus
• PATRICIA APPELBAUM, Kingdom to Commune: Protestant Pacifist Culture between World War I and the Vietnam War, Timothy Miller
• EMMY BARTH, No Lasting Home: A Year in the Paraguayan Wilderness, J. Timothy Johnson,
• PAUL DOUGLAS, Architecture, Artifacts, and Arts in the Harmony Society of George Rapp: The Material Culture of a Nineteenth-Century American Utopian Community
  Lucy Jayne Kamau

Cover

Understanding Israel, with Jessica, Deja Linet and Fulness, circa 1978, in front of Love Family “Blue Bus.” Photograph by Marco Ricca, courtesy of Marco Ricca Studios.

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.

Articles

• JOSHUA LOCKYER, From Developmental Communalism to’I'ransformative; Utopianism: An Imagined Conversation with; Donald Pitzer
• DONALD E, PITZER, Response to Lockyer’s “From Developmental; Communalism to Transformative; Utopianism”
• PETER H. COCK, Community Sustainability: The Challenge of Intergenerational Change
• PHILIP E. WEBBER, Zoar in the Civil War: Choosing between; Pacifism and Participation
• PETER HOEHNLE, The Communal Wanderings of August Jacobi
• ANGELA TJADEN, The Communal System of the Amana Colonies: Impact of Hired Labor. 1884-1932

Documents

• LANNY HALDY, Inspirationist Imprints in America, I849-1929: A Bibliography of Gerinan-Languagc Books; Produced by the Community of True Inspiration

Reviews

• CAROLYN JESSOP WITH LAURA PALMER, Escape; Martha Sonntag Bradley.
• STEPHEN SINGULAR, When Men Become Gods: Mormon Polygamist Warren Jeffs; His Cult of Fear, and the Women Who Fought Back; Martha Sonn(ag Bradley
• THE ENFIELD SHAKER SINGERS, We Find No Harm in Dancing: Christian Goodwillie & Sarah Goethe-ones
• FLOYD H. DUNCAN, The Utopian Prince: Robert Owen and the Search for the Millennium; Jayne Kaman
• STAN KAHN, Y3K: .Iames J. Kopp
• ELISSA WALL WITH LISA PULITZER, Stolen Innocence:  My Stony of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jells; Etta Maddenl
• ALASTAIR GORDON, Spaced Out: Radical Environments of the Psychedelic Sixties;  Timothy Mill

Cover

Haymakin_ng near West Amana village, circa 1930. Photograph by Rudolph Kellenbergcr, courtesy of the Amana Heritage Society.