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The Ministers' War - John W. Mears, the Oneida Community, and the Crusade for Public Morality (Hardcover)
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The Ministers' War - John W. Mears, the Oneida Community, and the Crusade for Public Morality (Hardcover)
Series: New York State Series
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Unbridled passions threatened nineteenth-century America, a
vulnerable young nation already feeling beset by foreigners,
corruption, and disease. Purifying crusaders like Hamilton College
philosophy professor and Presbyterian minister John W. Mears
mobilized to fight every sin and carnal lure, from liquor to free
love. In Upstate New York's famed Oneida Community, Mears
encountered his stiffest challenge. Oneida's founder and patriarch,
John Humphrey Noyes, oversaw a radical Christian commune where men
and women sexually mingled through the practice of ""complex
marriage."" While others struggled to dislodge the community that
had evolved since 1848 into a successful business venture and
congenial neighbor, it was Mears who, after years of trying,
rallied New York's church and university leaders for a final,
concerted anti-Oneida campaign. In The Ministers' War, Doyle traces
the full story of Mears and the crusade against the Oneida
Community. He explores the ways in which Mears's multipurpose zeal
reflected the passions behind the nineteenth-century temperance
movement, the fight against obscenity, and the public animus toward
unconventional thought. As an author, political candidate, and
controversialist, Mears was a prominent moralizer at a time when
public morality seemed to be most at risk.
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