Description
Book SynopsisAfter 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
Table of Contents
Preface, Introduction: Th e Globalization of Communes and Cooperative Communities, 1. Th e Fifties—Th e First Buds, 2. US Communes in the Sixties: Th e High Tide, 3. Th e Seventies’ Communes—Stability and Diversity, 4. Th e Eighties: From Decline to Recovery, 5. Expansion and Diversity in the 1990s, 6. Communes and Cooperative Communities at the Turn of the Century, 7. A Collective Profi le of the Communes and Intentional Communities, 8. Th e Kibbutz Movement and the Communes, 9. A Personal Afterword, Bibliography, Index
