Communal Societies Journal Vol 34, No 1

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Articles

CHRISTOPHER JAMES BLYTHE
The Coronation of James J. Strang and the Making of Beaver Island Mormonism

A. WHITNEY SANFORD
Being the Change: Food, Nonviolence, and Self-Sufficiency in Contemporary Intentional Communities

CHRISTIAN GOODWILLIE
Mummy Jum:The Shaker-Pilgrim Encounter of 1817-1818

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PHILIP LOCKLEY
German Memories of Icaria: Carl Zwicker’s “Four Years’Experience of a Communistic Life” (1878)

Reviews

LARRY ESKRIDGE
God’s Forever Family: The Jesus People Movement in America Mark A. Noll

MELVYN HAMMARBERG
The Mormon Quest for Glory:The Religious World of the Latter-day Saints Douglas A. Foster

CAROL MEDLICOTT AND CHRISTIAN GOODWILLIE
Richard McNemar, Music, and the Western Shaker Communities: Branches of One Living Tree Stephen J. Stein

DIANE SASSON
Yearning for the New Age:Laura Holloway-Langford and Late Victorian Spirituality John L. Crow

DONALD B. KRAYBILL, KAREN M. JOHNSON-WEINER., AND STEVEN M. NOLT
The Amish Melanie Springer Mock

JOHN L. JACKSON JR.
Thin Description: Ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem Emily Suzanne Clark

KAREN T. LITFIN
Ecovillages: Lessons for Sustainable Community William J. Metcalf

CAROL MEDLICOTT
Issachar Bates: A Shaker’s Journey Mary Ann Haagen

JOSHUA DUBLER
Down in the Chapel: Religious Life in an American Prison Brad Stoddard

NICKY HALLETT
The Senses in Religious Communities, 1600-1800: Early Modern “Convents of Pleasure” Edmund H. Wareham

Cover

A map of the journey of the Isaac Bullard’s Pilgrims from Canada to an island in the Mississippi River, opposite the town of Little Praire, Missouri. Solid lines indicate documented Pilgrim locations and routes, hashed lines indicate conjectural paths between known locations. Original map from C. V. Lavoisne, A Complete Genealogical, Historical, Chronological, and Geographical Atlas (Philadelphia: M. Carey, 1820), Collection of Hamilton College.