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Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Acknowledgments to the First Edition -- Acknowledgments to the Second Edition -- Introduction to the First Edition -- One: The Vice Societies in the Nineteenth Century -- Two: The Vice Socieities in the Progressive Era -- Three: The First World War -- Four: The First Postwar Clash - 1918-22 -- Five: The "Clean Books" Crusade -- Six: The Latter 1920s -- Seven: "Banned in Boston" -- Eight: The Onslaught Against Federal Censorship -- Nine: The Thirties -- Ten: The Shifting Rhythms of Censorship from the 1950s to the 1970s -- Eleven: 1980 to Present: Symbolic Crusades, Embattled Libraries, Feminist Interventions, New Technologies -- Notes -- Index

From the Shakers to the Branch Davidians, America's communal utopians have captured the popular imagination. Seventeen original essays here demonstrate the relevance of such groups to the mainstream of American social, religious, and economic life. The contributors examine the beliefs and practices of the most prominent utopian communities founded before 1965, including the long-overlooked Catholic monastic communities and Jewish agricultural colonies. Also featured are the Ephrata Baptists, Moravians, Shakers, Harmonists, Hutterites, Inspirationists of Amana, Mormons, Owenites, Fourierists, Icarians, Janssonists, Theosophists, Cyrus Teed's Koreshans, and Father Divine's Peace Mission. Based on a new conceptual framework known as developmental communalism, the book examines these utopian movements throughout the course of their development--before, during, and after their communal period. Each chapter includes a brief chronology, giving basic information about the group discussed. An appendix presents the most complete list of American utopian communities ever published. The contributors are Jonathan G. Andelson, Karl J. R. Arndt, Pearl W. Bartelt, Priscilla J. Brewer, Donald F. Durnbaugh, Lawrence Foster, Carl J. Guarneri, Robert V. Hine, Gertrude E. Huntington, James E. Landing, Dean L. May, Lawrence J. McCrank, J. Gordon Melton, Donald E. Pitzer, Robert P. Sutton, Jon Wagner, and Robert S. Weisbrot.

Enthält Rezension von: Scoblic, J. Peter: U.S. vs. them : how half century of conservatism has undermined American security. - New York/N.Y. : Viking Penguin, 2008