Author: Oneida CommunityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Handbook of the Oneida Community, 1867 & 1871 Bound with Mutual Criticism
Author: Oneida CommunityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Handbook of the Oneida Community
Author: The Handbook of the Oneida Community, 1867 and 1871
Author: Oneida CommunityHand-Book of the Oneida Community, 1875
Author: Hand-book of the Oneida Community
Author: Oneida CommunityHandbook of the Oneida Community (Christian Perfectionist); with a sketch of its founder (J. H. Noyes), and an outline of its constitution and doctrines. no. 1, 2
Author: Without Sin
Author: Spencer KlawPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140239308
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Without Sin chronicles the rise and fall of nineteenth-century America's most succesful experiment in Utopian living: New York's Oneida Community (1848-1880). Founded by the charismatic Christian Perfectioniost John Humphrey Noyes, this remarkable society flourished for more than thirty years as a unique world where property was shared, men and women were equals, sex was free and open, work was to be joyous, and pleasure was felt to be "the very business that God set Adam and Eve about."
Oneida
Author: Ellen Wayland-SmithPublisher: Picador
ISBN: 1250043107
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
A fascinating and unusual chapter in American history about a religious community that held radical notions of equality, sex, and religion---only to transform itself, at the beginning of the twentieth century, into a successful silverware company and a model of buttoned-down corporate propriety. In the early nineteenth century, many Americans were looking for an alternative to the Puritanism that had been the foundation of the new country. Amid the fervor of the religious revival known as the Second Great Awakening, John Humphrey Noyes, a spirited but socially awkward young man, attracted a group of devoted followers with his fiery sermons about creating Jesus’ millennial kingdom here on Earth. Noyes established a revolutionary community in rural New York centered around achieving a life free of sin through God’s grace, while also espousing equality of the sexes and “complex marriage,” a system of free love where sexual relations with multiple partners was encouraged. Noyes’s belief in the perfectibility of human nature eventually inspired him to institute a program of eugenics, known as stirpiculture, that resulted in a new generation of Oneidans who, when the Community disbanded in 1880, sought to exorcise the ghost of their fathers’ disreputable sexual theories. Converted into a joint-stock company, Oneida Community, Limited, would go on to become one of the nation’s leading manufacturers of silverware, and their brand a coveted mark of middle-class respectability in pre- and post-WWII America. Told by a descendant of one of the Community’s original families, Ellen Wayland-Smith's Oneida is a captivating story that straddles two centuries to reveal how a radical, free-love sect, turning its back on its own ideals, transformed into a purveyor of the white-picket-fence American dream.
Author: ONEIDA COMMUNITY.
Author: Oneida Community