On Earth as it is in heaven: A study of nineteenth-century religious communal experiments in the United States

This article provides an introduction to the scholarship on religious communal experiments in nineteenth-century United States for scholars and students of history. The author approaches this scholarship from the perspective of a historian, thus primarily exploring historians' scholarship on th...

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Main Author: Hart, Amy (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2020]
In: Religion compass
Year: 2020, Volume: 14, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-13
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B USA / Oneida Community / Shakers / Mormon Church / Congregation / Utopia
IxTheo Classification:AZ New religious movements
KBQ North America
KDH Christian sects
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Summary:This article provides an introduction to the scholarship on religious communal experiments in nineteenth-century United States for scholars and students of history. The author approaches this scholarship from the perspective of a historian, thus primarily exploring historians' scholarship on these communities. In a similar vein, this article highlights historical communities, as opposed to those utopias that remained exclusively within the literary genre. This article first explains the history of communal studies scholarship and its traditional focus on the “big three” communities: Oneida, the Shakers, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, previously referred to as the Mormons. The article then explores the evolution of the scholarship since the mid-twentieth century, including the implementation of new historical methodologies and emphases on race and gender in the study of these communities. Finally, this article looks toward the future of communal studies scholarship, anticipating the next direction this scholarship will take.
ISSN:1749-8171
Contains:Enthalten in: Religion compass
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/rec3.12343