The Harmony Society, at Economy, Penn'a., Founded by George Rapp, A.D. 1805
Author : Aaron Williams
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Page : 192 pages
File Size : 17,79 MB
Release : 1866
Category : Choral societies
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Author : Aaron Williams
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 17,79 MB
Release : 1866
Category : Choral societies
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Author : Various
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 14,8 MB
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1473351278
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author : Yaacov Oved
Publisher : Transaction Pub
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 33,87 MB
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781560006473
The United States is the only modern nation in which communes have continuously existed for the past two hundred years. This definitive history of communes in America examines the major factors that have supported the existence and growth of communes throughout American history. The most impressive survey of the communal experience since the works of Noyes and Nordhoff, it is informed by a deep respect for the human subjects and organizational forms of American communes. The findings in the analytical chapters are of considerably theoretical import beyond the historical narrative. Oved details the founding, growth, development, and sometimes failure of alternative societies from 1735 to 1939: Icaria, Ephrata, Oneida, Shaker, religious, secular, and socialist communes. Extensive reference material cited will assure this work a special place in the archives of the literature on communes.
Author : Michael J. Lewis
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,54 MB
Release : 2016-11-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1400884314
A fascinating exploration of the urbanism at the heart of Utopian thinking The vision of Utopia obsessed the nineteenth-century mind, shaping art, literature, and especially town planning. In City of Refuge, Michael Lewis takes readers across centuries and continents to show how Utopian town planning produced a distinctive type of settlement characterized by its square plan, collective ownership of properties, and communal dormitories. Some of these settlements were sanctuaries from religious persecution, like those of the German Rappites, French Huguenots, and American Shakers, while others were sanctuaries from the Industrial Revolution, like those imagined by Charles Fourier, Robert Owen, and other Utopian visionaries. Because of their differences in ideology and theology, these settlements have traditionally been viewed separately, but Lewis shows how they are part of a continuous intellectual tradition that stretches from the early Protestant Reformation into modern times. Through close readings of architectural plans and archival documents, many previously unpublished, he shows the network of connections between these seemingly disparate Utopian settlements—including even such well-known town plans as those of New Haven and Philadelphia. The most remarkable aspect of the city of refuge is the inventive way it fused its eclectic sources, ranging from the encampments of the ancient Israelites as described in the Bible to the detailed social program of Thomas More's Utopia to modern thought about education, science, and technology. Delving into the historical evolution and antecedents of Utopian towns and cities, City of Refuge alters notions of what a Utopian community can and should be.
Author : Aaron Williams
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Page : 329 pages
File Size : 27,91 MB
Release : 1971
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Author : Rachel M. McCleary
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 20,62 MB
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199781281
This is a one-of-kind volume bringing together leading scholars in the economics of religion for the first time. The treatment of topics is interdisciplinary, comparative, as well as global in nature. Scholars apply the economics of religion approach to contemporary issues such as immigrants in the United States and ask historical questions such as why did Judaism as a religion promote investment in education? The economics of religion applies economic concepts (for example, supply and demand) and models of the market to the study of religion. Advocates of the economics of religion approach look at ways in which the religion market influences individual choices as well as institutional development. For example, economists would argue that when a large denomination declines, the religion is not supplying the right kind of religious good that appeals to the faithful. Like firms, religions compete and supply goods. The economics of religion approach using rational choice theory, assumes that all human beings, regardless of their cultural context, their socio-economic situation, act rationally to further his/her ends. The wide-ranging topics show the depth and breadth of the approach to the study of religion.
Author : Friedrich List
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 30,3 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Economics
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Author : Aaron Williams
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,73 MB
Release : 1971
Category :
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Author : Arch Bristow
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 31,10 MB
Release : 2010-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781440197246
Author : Theodore Christian Blegen
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 27,19 MB
Release : 1931
Category : Norway
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