Communal Societies, Vol. 17, 1997

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Contents

DEBORAH ALTUS
Student Housing Cooperatives: Communitarianism among American Youth, 1

DIETER HASELBACH
Franz Oppeneimer’s Contribution to the Theory of Co-operation, 15

CRAIG T. ATWOOD
The Joyfulness of Death in Eighteenth-Century Moravian Communities, 39

YUVAL DROR
The Total Institution-Day School Contimuum: A Model for Adapting and Updating the “Ideal Commune,” 59

ELIEZER BEN-RAFAEL
Crisis and Transformation: The Kibbutz at the Turn of the Century, 75

SONIA BLOOMFIELD RAMAGEM
Brazilians and Argentineans in a Kibbutz: the Difference Persists, 103

Reviews

DONALD E. JANZEN
A Brief Account of the People Usually Denominated Shakers, by Absolem H. Blackburn,  111

PAUL GAFFNEY
The Communitarian Moment: The Radical Challenge of the Northampton Association, by Christopher Clark, 112

ROBERT S. FOGARTY
Zion City, Illinois: Twentieth Century Utopia, by Philip L. Cook, 114

REGINA SIEGFRIED, ASC
Fire, Salt, and Peace: Intentional Christian Communities Alive in North America, by David Janzen and others; Holding the Line: The Telephone in Old Order Mennonite and Amish Life, by Diane Zimmerman Umble, 117

SUSAN LOVE BROWN
Shared Visions, Shared Lives: Communal Living Around the Globe, by Bill Metcalf, 120

CHRISTOPHER CLARK
America’s Communal Utopias, edited by Donald E. Pitzer, 121

LAURA H. WEAVER
Mennonite Women of Lancaster County: A Story in Photographs, 1855-1935, by Joanne Hess Siegrist, 124

TIMOTHY MILLER
Mary’s City of David, by R. James Taylor, 125

JONATHAN G. ANDELSON
Brief Notices, 128

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The Ronneburg Castle in Hesse, Germany, was the site of one of the assemblies of the Community of True Inspirationists. The Inspirationists migrated in the mid-nineteenth-century to the USA, first to the vicinity of Buffalo, New York, and then to Iowa. Descendants still live there in the Amana Colonies