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Exploring religious and spiritual intentional communities active in
the world today, Spiritual and Visionary Communities provides a
balanced introduction to a diverse range of communities worldwide.
Breaking new ground with its focus on communities which have had
little previous academic or public attention, the authors explore a
part of contemporary society which is rarely understood.
Communities studied include: Israeli kibbutzim, Mandarom, the
Twelve Tribes, 'The Farm' and the Camphill movement. Written from a
range of perspectives, this collection includes contributions from
members of the groups themselves, former members, and academic
observers, and as such will offer a unique and invaluable
discussion of religious and spiritual communities in the U.S.,
Europe, and beyond.
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the risks to recovery of 6 major specialty areas in abdominal
surgery, as well as major open and laparoscopic abdominal surgery.
Exploring religious and spiritual intentional communities active in
the world today, Spiritual and Visionary Communities provides a
balanced introduction to a diverse range of communities worldwide.
Breaking new ground with its focus on communities which have had
little previous academic or public attention, the authors explore a
part of contemporary society which is rarely understood.
Communities studied include: Israeli kibbutzim, Mandarom, the
Twelve Tribes, 'The Farm' and the Camphill movement. Written from a
range of perspectives, this collection includes contributions from
members of the groups themselves, former members, and academic
observers, and as such will offer a unique and invaluable
discussion of religious and spiritual communities in the U.S.,
Europe, and beyond.
Communes in America: 1975-2000 is the final volume in Miller's
trilogy on the history of American intentional communities.
Providing a comprehensive survey of communities during the last
quarter of the twentieth century, Miller offers a detailed study of
their character, scope, and evolution. Between 1975 and 2000, the
American communal experience evolved dramatically in response to
social and environmental challenges that confronted American
society as a whole. Long-accepted social norms and
institutions-family, religion, medicine, and politics-were
questioned as the divorce rate increased, interest in spiritual
teachings from Asia grew, and alternative medicine gained ground.
Cohousing flourished as a response to an increasing sense of
alienation and a need to balance community and private lives. At
the same time, Americans became increasingly concerned with
environmental protection and preservation of our limited resources.
In the face of these social changes, communal living flourished as
people sought out communities of like-minded individuals to pursue
a higher purpose. Organized topically, each chapter in the volume
provides basic information about various types of communities and
detailed examples of each type, from ecovillages and radical
Christian communities to pagan communes and cohousing experiments.
Miller also takes a step back to look at the prevalence of communal
living in American life over the twentieth century. Based on
exhaustive research, Miller's final volume provides an
indispensable survey and guide to understanding utopianism's
enduring presence in American culture.
In 1999, a seemingly incongruous collection of protestors converged
in Seattle to shut down the meetings of the World Trade
Organization. Union leaders, environmentalists dressed as
endangered turtles, mainstream Christian clergy,
violence-advocating anarchists, gay and lesbian activists, and many
other diverse groups came together to protest what they saw as the
unfair power of a nondemocratic elite. But how did such strange
bedfellows come together? And can their unity continue? In 1972
another period of social upheaval sociologist Colin Campbell
posited a "cultic milieu": An underground region where true seekers
test hidden, forgotten, and forbidden knowledge. Ideas and
allegiances within the milieu change as individuals move between
loosely organized groups, but the larger milieu persists in
opposition to the dominant culture. Jeffrey Kaplan and Helene Loow
find Campbell's theory especially useful in coming to grips with
the varied oppositional groups of today. While the issues differ,
current subcultures often behave in similar ways to deviant groups
of the past. The Cultic Milieu brings together scholars looking at
racial, religious and environmental oppositional groups as well as
looking at the watchdog groups that oppose these groups in turn.
While providing fascinating information on their own subjects, each
essay contributes to a larger understanding of our present-day
cultic milieu. For classes in the social sciences or religious
studies, The Cultic Milieu offers a novel way to look at the
interactions and ideas of those who fight against the powerful in
our global age.
In 1999, a seemingly incongruous collection of protestors converged
in Seattle to shut down the meetings of the World Trade
Organization. Union leaders, environmentalists dressed as
endangered turtles, mainstream Christian clergy,
violence-advocating anarchists, gay and lesbian activists, and many
other diverse groups came together to protest what they saw as the
unfair power of a nondemocratic elite. But how did such strange
bedfellows come together? And can their unity continue? In
1972-another period of social upheaval-sociologist Colin Campbell
posited a 'cultic milieu': An underground region where true seekers
test hidden, forgotten, and forbidden knowledge. Ideas and
allegiances within the milieu change as individuals move between
loosely organized groups, but the larger milieu persists in
opposition to the dominant culture. Jeffrey Kaplan and Helene Loow
find Campbell's theory especially useful in coming to grips with
the varied oppositional groups of today. While the issues differ,
current subcultures often behave in similar ways to deviant groups
of the past. The Cultic Milieu brings together scholars looking at
racial, religious and environmental oppositional groups as well as
looking at the watchdog groups that oppose these groups in turn.
While providing fascinating information on their own subjects, each
essay contributes to a larger understanding of our present-day
cultic milieu. For classes in the social sciences or religious
studies, The Cultic Milieu offers a novel way to look at the
interactions and ideas of those who fight against the powerful in
our global age.
This hilarious classroom comedy series is perfect for fans of Dog
Man and Stick Dog! Mysterious hauntings are causing major trouble
at Horace Hotwater Middle School. Sam Gibbs and his super-strong
tiny buddy, Hammie Rex, keep encountering creepy abnormal objects,
including a floating sports jersey and a runaway go-kart. While Sam
doesn't believe in ghosts, he has to admit the hauntings are
getting weirder...and more dangerous. Could bizarre mutant animals
be the cause? At Horace Hotwater, they often are! Beware of furry
ducks, slippery baked potato toppings, masked ninjas, and more in
this laugh-out-loud mystery starring the world's coolest class pet.
In The Orphans of Byzantium, Miller provides a perceptive and
original study of the evolution of orphanages in the Byzantine
Empire. Contrary to popular belief and even expert opinion,
medieval child-welfare systems were sophisticated, especially in
the Byzantine world. Combining ancient Roman legal institutions
with Christian concepts of charity, the Byzantine Empire evolved a
child-welfare system that tried either to select foster parents for
homeless children or to place them in group homes that could
provide food, shelter, and education. Miller discusses how
successive Byzantine emperors tried to improve Roman regulations to
provide greater security for orphans, and notes that they achieved
their greatest success when they widened the pool of potential
guardians by allowing women relatives to accept the duties of
guardianship. After a thorough discussion of each element of the
Byzantine child care system, the book closes by showing how
Byzantine orphanages provided models for later Western group homes,
especially in Italy. From these renaissance orphan asylums evolved
the system of modern European and American religious orphanages
until the foster care movement emerged at the beginning of the
twentieth century. Miller's study of these systems can provide
useful models for reforming the troubled child-welfare system
today.
Turn on, tune in, drop out, Timothy Leary advised young people in
the 1960s. And many did, creating a counterculture built on drugs,
rock music, sexual liberation, and communal living. The hippies
preached free love, promoted flower power, and cautioned against
trusting anyone over thirty. Eschewing money, materialism, and
politics, they repudiated the mainstream values of the times. Along
the way, these counterculturists created a lasting legacy and
inspired long-lasting social changes. The Hippies and American
Values uses an innovative approach to exploring the tenets of the
counterculture movement. Rather than relying on interviews
conducted years after the fact, Timothy Miller uses ""underground""
newspapers published at the time to provide a full and in-depth
exploration. This reliance on primary sources brings an immediacy
and vibrancy rarely seen in other studies of the period. Miller
focuses primarily on the cultural revolutionaries rather than on
the political radicals of the New Left. It examines the hippies'
ethics of dope, sex, rock, community, and cultural opposition and
surveys their effects on current American values. Filled with
illustrations from alternative publications, along with posters,
cartoons, and photographs, The Hippies and American Values provides
a graphic look at America in the 1960s. This second edition
features a new introduction and a thoroughly updated,
well-documented text. Highly readable and engaging, this volume
brings deep insight to the counterculture movement and the ways it
changed America. The first edition became a widely used
course-adoption favorite, and scholars and students of the 1960s
will welcome the second edition of this thought-provoking book.
When Martin Luther King, Jr. was tragically killed, six people who
were leaders made decisions on coping with the event. They were
just like you. Their stories are your stories. Their thoughts,
actions, and choices then can help make you a better leader for
today and tomorrow. Relive their fateful day of April 4, 1968 to
gain a unique perspective on your own.
The greatest wave of communal living in American history crested in
the tumultuous 1960s era including the early 1970s. To the
fascination and amusement of more decorous citizens, hundreds of
thousands of mostly young dreamers set out to build a new culture
apart from the established society. Widely believed by the larger
public to be sinks of drug-ridden sexual immorality, the communes
both intrigued and repelled the American people.
The intentional communities of the 1960s era were far more
diverse than the stereotype of the hippie commune would suggest. A
great many of them were religious in basis, stressing spiritual
seeking and disciplined lifestyles. Others were founded on secular
visions of a better society. Hundreds of them became so stable that
they survive today.
This book surveys the broad sweep of this great social yearning
from the first portents of a new type of communitarianism in the
early 1960s through the waning of the movement in the mid-1970s.
Based on more than five hundred interviews conducted for the 60s
Communes Project, among other sources, it preserves a colorful and
vigorous episode in American history. The book includes an
extensive directory of active and non-active communes, complete
with dates of origin and dissolution.
This is a single-volume source of reliable information on the most
important alternative religions, covering for each such essentials
as history, theology, impact on the culture, and current status.
Communes in America: 1975-2000 is the final volume in Miller's
trilogy on the history of American intentional communities.
Providing a comprehensive survey of communities during the last
quarter of the twentieth century, Miller offers a detailed study of
their character, scope, and evolution. Between 1975 and 2000, the
American communal experience evolved dramatically in response to
social and environmental challenges that confronted American
society as a whole. Long-accepted social norms and
institutions-family, religion, medicine, and politics-were
questioned as the divorce rate increased, interest in spiritual
teachings from Asia grew, and alternative medicine gained ground.
Cohousing flourished as a response to an increasing sense of
alienation and a need to balance community and private lives. At
the same time, Americans became increasingly concerned with
environmental protection and preservation of our limited resources.
In the face of these social changes, communal living flourished as
people sought out communities of like-minded individuals to pursue
a higher purpose. Organized topically, each chapter in the volume
provides basic information about various types of communities and
detailed examples of each type, from ecovillages and radical
Christian communities to pagan communes and cohousing experiments.
Miller also takes a step back to look at the prevalence of communal
living in American life over the twentieth century. Based on
exhaustive research, Miller's final volume provides an
indispensable survey and guide to understanding utopianism's
enduring presence in American culture.
"Paradise Lost" was recognized as a major epic poem soon after
its publication in 1667. For more than three centuries, critics
have been describing, interpreting, and evaluating it. Regardless
of their approaches to changing literary values, they have
generally accepted it as the prime example of the epic in English.
As many critics have observed, the poem brought biblical, literary,
cultural, social, scientific, and political elements into such
aesthetic harmony that even its detractors have been forced to
recognize its greatness. And because of its complexity, it has
become a test case in literary studies as a focal point for
changing critical assumptions and literary values. This reference
book traces the critical reception of "Paradise Lost" from the 17th
century to the present. The volume is organized in chapters devoted
to particular centuries, with each chapter presenting a selection
of reviews and critical essays from that period. Thus the reader is
able to chart the changing response to DEGREESIParadise Lost
DEGREESR over time. An introductory essay summarizes the reception
of Milton's work, and a bibliography lists important sources of
additional information.
The volume is organized in chapters devoted to particular
centuries. Each chapter then presents a selection of reviews and
critical essays from that period. Thus the reader is able to read
the 17th-century responses of Samuel Barrow, John Dryden, and
Joseph Addison; the 18th-century reactions of Alexander Pope,
Samuel Johnson, and William Blake; the 19th-century reactions of
British Romantic and Victorian poets; and the 20th-century
contributions of major scholars such as E.M.W. Tillyard, Stanley
Fish, Louis Martz, and Northrop Frye. The volume closes with a
sampling of Milton's own comments about "Paradise Lost" and the
epic, and a selected bibliography of major editions, reference
works, and critical studies.
This book is the long-anticipated first volume of a two-volume work
that will chronicle intentional communities in the twentieth
century. Timothy Miller's chronological account is likely to be the
standard work on the subject. Communities of the early twentieth
century were often obscure and short-lived enterprises that left
little trace of themselves. Historical accounts of them are few,
and the ephemera such ventures produced have rarely been collected.
Miller first looks at the older groups that were operating until I
900. He explores their impact of the early twentieth-century art
colonies, and then turns to a decade-by-decade discussion of many
dozens of new groups formed up to 1960. His comprehensive
perspective--a synopsis of the first sixty years of this
century--has never before been undertaken in the study of communal
groups.
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