Author: John Humphrey NoyesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Collective settlements
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Religious Experience of John Humphrey Noyes, Founder of the Oneida Community
Author: John Humphrey NoyesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Collective settlements
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Religious Experience of John Humphrey Noyes, Founder of the Oneida Community
Author: John Humphrey NoyesReligious Experiences of John Humphrey Noyes, Founder of the Oneida Community
Author: John Humphrey NoyesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Perfection
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Free Love in Utopia
Author: George Wallingford NoyesPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252026706
Category : Alternative lifestyles
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The "free love" Oneida Community, founded in New York state during the turbulent decades before the Civil War, practiced an extraordinary system of "complex marriage" as part of its sustained experiment in creating the kingdom of heaven on earth. For more than thirty years, two hundred adult members considered themselves heterosexually married to the entire community rather than to a single monogamous partner. Free Love in Utopia provides the first in-depth account of how complex marriage was introduced among previously monogamous or single Oneida Community members. Bringing together vivid, firsthand writings by members of the community--including personal correspondence, memoranda on spiritual and material concerns, and official pronouncements--this volume portrays daily life in Oneida and the deep religious commitment that permeated every aspect of it. It also presents a complex portrait of the community's founder, John Humphrey Noyes, who demanded not only complete religious loyalty from his followers but also minute control over their sexual lives. It recounts the formidable legal suits faced by the community--one of which almost forced it to disband in 1852--and the critical behind-the-scenes work of Noyes's second-in-command, John L. Miller. Most important, Free Love in Utopia describes in detail how Oneida's "enlarged family" was created and how its unorthodox practices affected its members. Key selections from a large collection of primary documents detailing Oneida's early years were compiled by George Wallingford Noyes, nephew of the founder. The present volume, astutely edited and introduced by noted communitarian scholar Lawrence Foster, marks the first publication of G. W. Noyes's remarkable manuscript, excerpted from the irreplaceable original documents that were deliberately burned after his death. The volume also reproduces Oneida's First Annual Report, which contains the sexual manifesto that underlay the community.
Religious Experience of John Humphrey Noyes, Founder of Te Oneida Community
Author: George Wallingford NoyesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Religious Experience of John Humphrey Noyes, Founder of the Oneida Community. Comp. and Ed. by G. Wallingford Noyes. With 17 Ills
Author: A Yankee Saint
Author: Robert Allerton ParkerPublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1786258218
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
Considered to be one of the definitive biographies on John Humphrey Noyes, an American preacher, radical religious philosopher, and utopian socialist who founded the Putney, Oneida, and Wallingford Communities and is credited for having coined the term “free love”.
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."
The Man Who Would Be Perfect
Author: Robert David ThomasPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512807591
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
John Humphrey Noyes, founder of utopian communities in Putney, Vermont, and Oneida, New York, remain one of the most enigmatic reformers of the nineteenth century. The last biography, written over forty years ago, portrayed Noyes as a "Yankee Saint," a man of progressive ideas and religious vision. Yet he has also been called a "Vermont Casanova" whose elaborate theology of Perfection is simply justified the license he took with the women in his communities. Robert David Thomas makes a convincing case that Noyes, though riven by conflict and full of contradictions, had his finger on the social and cultural problems that were bothering a great many Americans of his time. Studied out of context, Noyes must remain a mystery-radical yet conservative, shy yet arrogant, retiring, and passive yet forceful, even oppressive, in his leadership. But against the background of nineteenth-century American activism and religious enthusiasm, John Humphrey Noyes emerges as a man who overcame a tortured personal life and marshaled his inner resources to grapple with a confusing and rapidly changing social world. Using modern theories of the ego, Thomas provides a psychologically consistent portrait of Noyes and therein a new perspective on the roots of nineteenth-century Perfectionism, utopian, reform, sexual ideology, and family theory. More than a conventional psycho-biography, this study assumes a sociological theme in its explanations of the social tensions of the era and the sources of "disorder" now so frequently mentioned in studies of the previous century.
Oneida Community
Author: Constance Noyes RobertsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The Oneida Community was founded in 1848 in upstate New York under the leadership of John Humphrey Noyes. Of all of the 19th-century utopian experiments in communal living, it was the most enduring and the most successful. In this compilation from the Community newspapers and other documents, the men and women themselves describe life in the Oneida Community--the way they lived, how they worked and played, their views on raising children, personal relationships, education, religion. The book is alive with a sense of joy, intelligence, commitment, and practical common sense. Noyes and his followers came to Oneida after being driven out of Putney, Vermont, where the Community had worked out the basic tenets and practices of Perfectionism, the religious concept by which they lived. Noyes believed it necessary for the Community to publish information about its members and activities, so that interested outsiders--and sister communes--could read the truth about life at Oneida.--From publisher description.