Historical, 19th-century (Temporal Keyword)
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In the World and Of the World: Separatism as U.S. American Political Practice (2018)
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One of the populist responses to repressive US American policies and practices has been to separate from mainstream society and live intentionally in communities that enact egalitarian ideologies. However, study of such communities reveals that the same prejudices that its members repudiated nevertheless guided their own formation and evolution. This paper considers the development of religious and secular utopian communities in the United States focusing on the role the created and enacted...