Heavens on Earth: Christian Utopias in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century America

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Author	Clark, Christopher
Copyright Year	2010
Description	In the rich and complex history of American Christianity, utopias in one form or another have played a constant part. From the early puritan settlements onwards, North America has played a distinctive role in the Christian imagination — as a place of refuge, as a place for experimentation, as the founding-spot for new sects, churches, and denominations. Among the experimenters have been many groups of Christians in America who have, over more than two centuries, gathered themselves into communal organizations — what participants and commentators now call ‘intentional communities’. Their numbers have been almost impossible to measure accurately; one authoritative listing counts about six hundred communal groups with over fifteen hundred separate settlements in the USA before 1965, and there will have been thousands more communes formed since then. Membership figures are even harder to pin down, but it is certain that the numbers of people who have at one time or another lived in an American intentional community runs into the hundreds of thousands.
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Ending Page	418
Page Count	23
Starting Page	396
ISSN	04242084
e-ISSN	20590644
DOI	10.1017/s0424208400000723
Journal	Studies in Church History
Volume Number	46
Language	English
Publisher	Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publisher Date	2010-01-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Studies in Church History
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Religious Studies History