Contents
- ISAO UEMICHI, Paradise in Japanese Literature, 1
- WILLIAM SIMS BAINBRIDGE, The Decline of the Shakers: Evidence from the United States Census, 19
- MICHAEL BARKUN, Communal Societies as Cyclical Phenomena, 35
- GORDON F. SUTTON, Structural Features of an Enacted Community, 49
- RUTH SHONLE CAVAN, Analysis of Health Practices among the Amish with Reference to Boundary Maintenance, 59
- VIOLET AND ORLANDO J. GOERING, The Agricultural Communes of the Am Olam, 74
- ANNE TAYLOR, Darkness into Light: Laurence Oliphant’s Experience of Communal Discipline in the United States and Palestine, 87
- PER NØRRUNG, Work or Activity: From the Classical “Curse of Work” to the Willed Activity of Modern Production Communes, 97
- TONYA K. FLESHER AND DALE L. FLESHER, The Contributions of Accounting to the Early Success of the Harmonists, 109
- KAROL H. BOROWSKI, From the Tree House to the 2001 Center: The Renaissance Movement in the United States, 121
Three Views of Amana
- WALTER GROSSMANN, The Origins of the True Inspired of Amana, 133
- DONALD F. DURNBAUGH, Eberhard Ludwig Gruber and Johann Adam Gruber: A Father and Son as Early Inspirationist Leaders, 150
- HENRY SCHIFF, Before and After 1932: A Memoir, 161
Two Communitarian Women
- JOSEPHINE MIRABELLA ELLIOTT, Madame Marie Fretageot: Communitarian Educator, 167
- CELIA ECKHARDT, Fanny Wright: Rebel and Communitarian Reformer, 183
Two Memoirs
- EDNA C. DON, The Nature of Chinese People’s Communes During the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976, 197
- JEFFERSON P. SELTH, The Ashram of Graton Road: Morning Star Ranch, a California Commune in the 1960’s, 204
Tenth Anniversary Addresses
- DONALD E. PITZER, The Uses of the American Communal Past: Keynote Address for the Tenth Annual Historic Communal Societies Conference, New Harmony, Indiana, October 13, 1983, 215
- JOHN F. C. HARRISON, Owenite Communitarianism in Britain and America, 243
Reviews
- TED C. HINCKLEY, Community on the American Frontier: Separate but not Alone, by Robert V. Hine, 249
- JANE F. CROSTHWAITE, Gift Drawing and Gift Song: A Study of Two Forms of Shaker Inspiration, by Daniel W. Patterson, 250
- MICHAEL FELLMAN, Religion, Society, and Utopia in Nineteenth-Century America by Ira L. Mandelker, 252
- JANE DUPREE BEGOS, A Sort of Utopia, Scarsdale, 1891-1981, by Carol A. O’Connor, 254
- JAYME A. SOKOLOW, The Second Coming: Popular Millenarianism, 1780-1850, by John F. C. Harrison, 255
- JOHN L. NETHERS, The Spirit and the Flesh: Sex in Utopian Communities by Robert H. and Jeannette C. Lauer, 257
- CORNELIUS KRAHN, Das Vergessne Volk: Ein Jahr bei den Deutschen Hutterern in Kanada, by Michael Holzach, 258
- GEORGE N. GREEN, Marxists and Utopians in Texas, by Ernst C. Fisher, 259
- ROBERT GALBREATH, Miracles and Prophecies in Nineteenth-Century France, by Thomas A. Kselman, 261
- STEVEN CARLTON-FORD, Ananda—Where Yoga Lives, by John Ball, 262
- GREGORY W. BROWN, Cooperative Communities; How to Start Them and Why, by Swami Kriyananda, 264
Cover
From a photograph in The Amanas Yesterday: Historic Photographs, 1900-1932. (Iowa City, Iowa: Penfield Press, 1975; 215 Brown Street, Iowa City, IA 52245; $10.95, softcover.)
