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Communes in America, 1975-2000 [Volume 3], Communes in America, 1975-2000

Title
Communes in America, 1975-2000 [Volume 3], Communes in America, 1975-2000 / [electronic resource]. Timothy Miller.
ISBN
0815654766
9780815654766
9780815636489
Edition
First edition.
Published
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2019. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 PDF (xxv, 247 pages))
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
Description based on print version record.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Communes in America: 1975-2000 is the final volume in Miller's trilogy on the history of American intentional communities. Providing a comprehensive survey of communities during the last quarter of the twentieth century, Miller offers a detailed study of their character, scope, and evolution. Between 1975 and 2000, the American communal experience evolved dramatically in response to social and environmental challenges that confronted American society as a whole. Long-accepted social norms and institutions--family, religion, medicine, and politics--were questioned as the divorce rate increased, interest in spiritual teachings from Asia grew, and alternative medicine gained ground. Cohousing flourished as a response to an increasing sense of alienation and a need to balance community and private lives. At the same time, Americans became increasingly concerned with environmental protection and preservation of our limited resources. In the face of these social changes, communal living flourished as people sought out communities of like-minded individuals to pursue a higher purpose. Organized topically, each chapter in the volume provides basic information about various types of communities and detailed examples of each type, from ecovillages and radical Christian communities to pagan communes and cohousing experiments. Miller also takes a step back to look at the prevalence of communal living in American life over the twentieth century. Based on exhaustive research, Miller's final volume provides an indispensable survey and guide to understanding utopianism's enduring presence in American culture.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - 2019 Complete
Project MUSE - 2019 History
Other formats
Print version:
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 09, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-232) and index.
Contents
Preface: A century of American international communities
The century winds down, and communities thrive
Cohousing comes to America
The ecovillage revolution
The spiritual search I : Christian and Jewish communities
The spiritual search II : other religious communities
Communities on purpose
Communities in the media spotlight : crisis and controversy
Conclusion and afterword: Into the twenty-first century
Appendix A: A reflection on 400 years of American communes : Does communal activity come in waves? If so, when have they occurred?
Appendix B: American intentional communities, 1900-2000.
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