God's Blueprints: A Sociological Study of Three Utopian Sects
Author:   John McKelvie Whitworth
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Volume:   4
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9780367025113


Pages:   274
Publication Date:   15 September 2020
Format:   Paperback
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God's Blueprints: A Sociological Study of Three Utopian Sects


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Viewing the world with abhorrence, members of utopian sects isolate themselves from its influence. As this book, first published in 1975, shows, they seek to establish and promulgate radically distinctive forms of society according to what they claim to be God’s blueprint and which they believe are destined by his intervention and their example to spread throughout the world. Rooted in the sociology of religion and more particularly in the concepts of sectarianism and communitarianism, this study presents an analysis of three sects: the Shakers; the Oneida Community; and the Bruderhof. The author examines the origins, religious conceptions, social structure and composition, modes of social control, and development of each group; and in a concluding chapter he discusses the utopian sect as a distinctive social form.

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Author:   John McKelvie Whitworth
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   4
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367025113


ISBN 10:   0367025116
Pages:   274
Publication Date:   15 September 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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1. Introduction 2. Origins and Expansion of the Shakers, 1747-1835 3. The Shakers – Internal Revival and Decline, 1835-1905 4. The Perfectionists of Oneida – Origins and Incipient Communitarianism, 1831-1848 5. The Oneida Community – Communism of Property and Affections, 1848-1881 6. A Contemporary Utopian Sect – the Society of Brothers (or Bruderhof) 7. Conclusions

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