Communal Experience Anarchist and Mystical Communities in Twentieth Century America

Name: Communal Experience Anarchist and Mystical Communities in Twentieth Century America
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ISBN: 9780226854588

ISBN-10: 0226854582

ISBN-13: 9780226854588

Edition: 1978 (Reprint)

Authors: Laurence R. Veysey

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The original impulse for groups to separate from society and establish communities of their own was religious. Though the religious side of this drive toward separation remains strong, the last two centuries have seen the appearance of secular communities with a socialist or anarchist orientation. In The Communal Experience, nominated for a National Book Award in 1973, Laurence Veysey explores the close resemblances between the secular and religious forms of cultural radicalism through intensive observation of four little-known communities. Veysey compares the history of secular communities such as the early Ferrer Colony and Modern School, of Shelton, New Jersey, with contemporary…

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List price: $56.00
Copyright year: 1978
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/1/1978
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Preface to the Phoenix Edition


Acknowledgments


Introduction



In Search of a Counter-Cultural Tradition



Anarchistic Communities



The Ferrer Colony and Modern School of Stelton, New Jersey The Ferrer Center and the Immigrant Life of New York Why Native Americans Joined the Ferrer Movement Flight from the City The Building of the Colony The Educational Radicalism of Elizabeth and Alexis Ferm Conflict Over Ideals Decline and Disappearance



Contemporary Anarchistic Communes New York Vermont New Mexico



Communities of Discipline



Vedanta Monasteries The Vedanta Movement in America Vedanta and Community Encounters Between Swamis and American Seekers The Limitations of the Monastic Impulse



New Mexico, 1971: Inside a "New Age" Social Order The External Tour Journal of a Five Weeks' Stay History and Intellectual Sources Individuals The Strength of the Fledgling Culture Ezra The Old in the New Seven Months Later



The Trend of American Cultural Radicalism


Index