1st Edition
God's Blueprints A Sociological Study of Three Utopian Sects
By John McKelvie Whitworth
Copyright 1975
274 Pages
by
Routledge
274 Pages
by
Routledge
274 Pages
by
Routledge
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Viewing the world with abhorrence, members of utopian sects isolate themselves from its influence. As this book, first published in 1975, shows, they seek to establish and promulgate radically distinctive forms of society according to what they claim to be God’s blueprint and which they believe are destined by his intervention and their example to spread throughout the world. Rooted in the... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Origins and Expansion of the Shakers, 1747-1835 3. The Shakers – Internal Revival and Decline, 1835-1905 4. The Perfectionists of Oneida – Origins and Incipient Communitarianism, 1831-1848 5. The Oneida Community – Communism of Property and Affections, 1848-1881 6. A Contemporary Utopian Sect – the Society of Brothers (or Bruderhof) 7. Conclusions
Biography
John McKelvie Whitworth
