God's Blueprints: A Sociological Study of Three Utopian Sects

ISBN-13: 9780367025069 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 270 str.

John McKelvie Whitworth

Opis

This book, first published in 1975, examines how utopian sects seek to establish and promulgate radically distinctive forms of society according to what they claim to be God’s blueprint. Rooted in the sociology of religion, this study presents an analysis of three sects: the Shakers; the Oneida Community; and the Bruderhof.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

John McKelvie Whitworth