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Globalization of Communes - 1950-2010 (Paperback)
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Globalization of Communes - 1950-2010 (Paperback)
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After 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 Oved shows that such societies
maintain a community based on cooperation and expand their
influence through newspapers, television, and the Internet. Their
chief characteristic is their openness to the outside world, and
their search for a way to move beyond a world of individualism and
competitiveness. To accomplish this, they embrace all the tools of
the modern world. Oved observes that those who predicted the
failure of communes and intentional communities failed to
appreciate the extent to which people in today's society aspire to
communal life. This book answers the doubters and does so with a
sense of deep historical understanding.
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