Communal Societies, Vol. 26 No.2, 2006

Contents

DAN MCKANAN
Self-Unfolding as Communitarian Vision:  Brook Farm’s Challenge to Contemporary Communities 1

DAVID J. HOWLETT
The Bruderhof’s “System of Objects” :A Case Study in Material Culture  and Christian Praxis, 1920-2001 19

ROD JANZEN, STEPHEN SCOTT AND HANNAH SCOTT
Communal Aspects of Old Order River Brethren Life 43

ERIKA DOOT
Tourism Encourages Heritage Preservation in the Amana Colonies 65

THEODORE KALLMAN
The Pilgrimage of Ralph Albertson 79

SORA H. FRIEDMAN
Planned Communities of the New Deal 99

GLENDYNE WERGLAND
Validation in the Shaker Era of Manifestations:  A Process Analysis 121

MARK KRUGER
The Concept of Individualism in American Historical Communities 141

Document

JEFFREY S. RASLEY
The Outlaws of Kalalau, the Aloha Spirit, and Threats to the Commune 167

Reviews

DEBORAH ALTUS
Living Walden Two:  B. F. Skinner’s Behaviorist Utopia and Experimental Communities by Hilke Kuhlmann 17

HOLLY FOLK
The Distinctiveness of Moravian Culture:  Essays and Documents in Moravian History in Honor of Vernon H. Nelson on his Seventieth Birthday by Craig D. Atwood and Peter Vogt, eds. 184

HOLLY FOLK
The Church Universal and Triumphant:  Elizabeth Clare Prophet’s Apocalyptic Message by Bradley C. Whitsel 186

LAWRENCE FOSTER
One Shaker Life:  Isaac Newton Youngs 1793-1865 by Glendyne R. Wergland 188

RUTH BAER LAMBACH
Interracialism and Christian Community in the Postwar South: The Story of Koinonia Farm by Tracy Elaine K’Meyer 191

RUTH BAER LAMBACH
On the Edge of the Future:  Esalen and the Evolution of American Culture by Jeffrey J. Kripal and Glenn W. Shuck, eds. 194

JOANNA WIEBE
Power, Authority, and the Anabaptist Tradition by Benjamin W. Redekop and Calvin W. Redekop, eds 199

Cover

Sannerz House, 2004.  Photograph courtesy of the Bruderhof.  In 1920, this old villa in Sannerz, a small village in central Germany, became the first site of the Bruderhof.  In 1937 Nazi harassment forced the community to leave Sannerz, but in 2002, the group returned, re-purchased the villa and started a new community, which includes descendents of earlier residents.