Communal Societies Journal No 38, Vol 1

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Contents

Articles

Emily Welty
The Communal Ethos of the Mennonite Central Committee: Testing the Bounds of Community in Kenya  – 1

Christian Goodwillie
Truth Seeker on the Holy Mount: DeRobigne Mortimer Bennett’s Descent from the Shaker Feast Ground – 31

Amy Hart
“Owned and Controlled by Negroes”: Allensworth and the Study of Subnational Space – 59

Document and Commentary

Kathleen M. Fernandez
“A Separatist Song”: A Newly Discovered Poem about Zoar’s Beginnings – 81

Reviews

Benjamin Klein, Editor
Irwin Klein and the New Settlers: Photographs of Counterculture in New Mexico, Nancy Stein – 109

Beverly Seckinger, Director
“Hippie Family Values”, Nancy Stein – 113

A. Whitney Sanford
Living Sustainably: What Intentional Communities Can Teach Us about Democracy, Simplicity, and Nonviolence, Joshua Lockyer – 117

Anthony Wonderley
Oneida Utopia: A Community Searching for Human Happiness and Prosperity, Lawrence Foster – 122