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"After World War II, communes and cooperative communities became internationally oriented in their membership and networking began to develop. Unlike earlier such enterprises, these groups shared an openness to international relationships. This was evident both in the groups' social composition, and in the extension of networks beyond their own country. Such globalization opened up the possibility of comparative analysis, which has become a trend in research since the 1950s. The dynamism and speed with which voluntary communities have spread throughout the world is impressive. In the 1950s there were only a few hundred such societies, but by the end of the last century there were thousands. These have taken a variety of forms. There are religious and secular communes, intentional communities, ecological communities, co-housing projects, various types of Christian communities, communities of Eastern religions, and spiritual communities inspired by New Age thought. Yaacov Oved shows that such societies maintain a community based on cooperation and expand their influence through newspapers, television, and the Internet. Their chief characteristic is their openness to the outside world, and their search for a way to move beyond a world of individualism and competitiveness. To accomplish this, they embrace all the tools of the modern world. Oved observes that those who predicted the failure of communes and intentional communities failed to appreciate the extent to which people in today's society aspire to communal life. This book answers the doubters and does so with a sense of deep historical understanding."--Provided by publisher.

En diciembre de 1940 desembarcó en el puerto de Buenos Aires un grupo de unos cien inmigrantes, procedentes de Inglaterra. Sus integrantes eran oriundos de distintos países: Alemania, Holanda, Suiza, Inglaterra, Francia y Suecia, y llamaban la la atención por su indumentaria: las mujeres se cubrían la cabeza con pañuelos oscuros de lunares blancos y llevaban vestidos largos a estilo de las aldeanas alemanas, mientras que los varones usaban ropa negra raída, sombrero negro y tirantes, y todos lucían barba. Por su extraña apariencia y por el hecho de haber llegado en grupo, esos pasajeros despertaron curiosidad en el puerto.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: My Encounterwith American Communes -- Part I: The Historical Sequence -- 1. Communes in the History of the United States -- 2. Ephrata and the First Communes in North America -- 3. The Shakers: American Religious Communes -- 4. Religious Immigrant Communes -- 5. Robert Owen and the First Socialist Communes -- 6. The Fourierist Communitarian Settlements -- 7. Oneida: Commune with Complex Marriage -- 8. Icaria: The Socialist Immigrant Communes -- 9. Victor Considerant and the Fourierists at La Reunion -- 10. New Odessa: A Jewish Commune of the Am Olam Group -- 11. The Kaweah Cooperative Colony in California -- 12. Ruskin: The Communitarian Settlement in Tennessee, 1849 -- 13. Communitarian Settlements and Socialist Parties in Washington State -- 14. The Christian Commonwealth in Georgia -- 15. Llano de Rio: A Socialist Commune in California and Louisiana -- 16. Sunrise and Anarchist Communities -- 17. The Hutterites: A Bridge between Past and Present -- Part II: A Collective Profile in a Comparative Approach -- 18. Ideological Principles -- 19. Social Activity and Management -- 20. Education, Culture, and Rituals -- 21. The Family and Women's Status in the Communes -- 22. Economic Assets and Liabilities -- 23. Dualistic Relationships with the Outside World -- 24. Dissolution of the Communes: Options or Inevitability? -- 25. Epilogue -- Appendix -- Index of Names -- Index of Communes