Communal Societies Journal Vol 43, No. 1

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Contents

FROM THE EDITORS

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Anniversary Plenary Reflections

DONALD E. PITZER
The Development of Developmental Communalisms 1

JOSHUA LOCKYER
From Developmental Communalism to Transformative Utopianism and Beyond: Reflections from a Mid-Career Anthropologist on the Past and Future of Communal Studies 5

DAN MCKANAN
Three Developmental Trajectories of Communal Change 11

GREG BROWN
Developmental Communal Studies 21

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Historiographical Reflection

CARL GUARNERI
Connecting the Dots: Steps toward a Synthesis of American Communal History 23

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Book Reviews

PENNY CLARK, JAMES DENNIS AND JONATHAN HOW
Urban Communal Living in Britain
William J. Metcalf, Reviewer 49

CHRISTIAN GOODWILLIE
Richard McNemar Frontier Heretic and Shaker Apostle
Stephen J. Paterwic, Reviewer 53

ANTHONY WONDERLEY
The Look of Utopia: Oneida Community Buildings, Landscape Projects, and Photographs (1848-1880)
Matthew Wilson, Reviewer 56

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Book Notes

DANA SAWYER AND CYNTHIA HUMES
The Transcendental Meditation Movement
Scott Lowe, Reviewer 60

DAVID J. NEUMANN
Finding God through Yoga: Paramahansa Yogananda and Modern American Religion in a Global Age
Kristalyn M. Shefveland, Reviewer 62

DOUGLAS E. COWAN
The Christian Countercult Movement
ANGELA BURT
Hare Krishna in the Twenty-First Century
Timothy Miller, Reviewer 65

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Check This Out!

FAILED UTOPIA
Anna Roberts 67
Deborah E. Altus, Reviewer

ON THE LEVEL: POEMS ON LIVING WITH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
Bryan R. Monte
Larry Foster, Reviewer 69

WACO
Drew Dowdle and John Erick Dowdle
Cheryl Coulthard, Reviewer 71

WACO: AMERICAN APOCALYPSE
Tiller Russell
Cheryl Coulthard, Reviewer 73

WACO: THE AFTERMATH
Drew Dowdle and John Erick Dowdle
Cheryl Coulthard, Reviewer 75