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Utopian imagination and community experiments as forces for change

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Anthropologist Carspecken . . . offers an extraordinarily captivating and challenging book based on a year and a half of reflective research in the 109-acre intentional community of Lothlorien. . . . Essential.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
A Note on Names

1. "That Dose of Unreality": An Introduction to Lothlorien Nature Sanctuary
2. "Dream Flowers": Fiction and Utopian Imagination in Neo-Paganism and Alternative Communities
3. Faerie and Avalon: Reimagining Nature
4. "A Loose-Knit Anarchy": Reimagining Organization
5. "The Land of Misfit Toys": Reimagining Community and Freedom
6. "Something Mystical and Fine": Reimagining Ritual and Spiritual Experience
7. "A Gypsy Community": Cycling, Learning, and Moving On
8. "A Spontaneous Social Experiment"

Notes
Bibliography
Index

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      Publisher: Indiana University Press
      Publication Date: 03/11/2011
      ISBN13: 9780253223494, 978-0253223494
      ISBN10: 0253223490
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Utopian imagination and community experiments as forces for change

      Trade Review

      Anthropologist Carspecken . . . offers an extraordinarily captivating and challenging book based on a year and a half of reflective research in the 109-acre intentional community of Lothlorien. . . . Essential.

      * Choice *

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments
      A Note on Names

      1. "That Dose of Unreality": An Introduction to Lothlorien Nature Sanctuary
      2. "Dream Flowers": Fiction and Utopian Imagination in Neo-Paganism and Alternative Communities
      3. Faerie and Avalon: Reimagining Nature
      4. "A Loose-Knit Anarchy": Reimagining Organization
      5. "The Land of Misfit Toys": Reimagining Community and Freedom
      6. "Something Mystical and Fine": Reimagining Ritual and Spiritual Experience
      7. "A Gypsy Community": Cycling, Learning, and Moving On
      8. "A Spontaneous Social Experiment"

      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index

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