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"Utopianism, or the dreams and nightmares that concern the ways in which groups of people arrange their lives and which usually envision a significantly different society than the one in which the dreamers live, lends itself to a wide variety of approaches. Utopianism includes what is called its three faces, utopian literature, utopian practice, including intentional communities, and utopian social theory. Reprints some of the author's articles together with two not previously published with the author's comments on how he came to write them and his reflections back on them from 2021"--

Most, probably all, Christian countries produce one or more messiahs. Some of these messiahs immigrated to settler colonies to escape religious persecution, others emerged from the indigenous people who had been introduced to Christianity, and yet others were the descendants of settlers.[i] Many attracted followers and some of these established intentional communities where their teachings could be put into practice, and some of this activity resulted in new religions, few of which lasted beyond the death of the messiah.[ii] Most preached that a better world would result from the adoption of their teachings.

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An overview of the importance of religion, particularly Christianity, has had in American life from the earliest explorations and settlements to the present day and the way that importance has been reflected in numerous religious utopias and dystopias. Positive utopias have been inspired by Christ's teachings and by Eden, heaven, and the millennium. Dystopias, found mostly in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, reflect, on the one hand, a fear that Christianity is under threat, and, on the other hand, the fear that fundamentalist Christians will impose their beliefs on the country. There have also been a number of Jewish utopias and anti-Semitic dystopias as well as a few Islamic utopias and a growing number of anti-Islamic dystopias based on the belief that Muslims want to impose Shari`a law on everyone.

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An argument for the importance of utopianism and a reflection on the current state of utopian scholarship that was to have been given as a keynote address at the annual meeting of Utopian Studies Europe in Bucharest in 2020.

While there have been studies of individual African American writers and, recently, work on African American authors of science fiction, some of whom wrote utopias and, more often, dystopias, there has been no attempt to examine the many ways that African Americans have contributed to utopianism. To fill that gap, this article gives an overview of African American contributions to utopianism in literature, intentional communities, and utopian social theory.

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This article reflects on the author's engagement with More's Utopia and the utopian tradition from when he begins to read utopias as an undergraduate and the way he responds to certain texts and then how he has responded to some of the same texts later in life. The author also argues for the continued importance of utopianism, utopian literature, and More's Utopia in particular.

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This article reads Bellamy's Looking Backward against his other work in Equality and The Nationalist and The New Nation. My analysis will correct some of the widely identified flaws in Looking Backward, and reading what Bellamy and others commenting on Looking Backward wrote after Looking Backward tells us a lot about why Bellamy wrote Equality as he did.