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Keywords
Collective settlements--United States; Collective settlements; Pietists; United States;
Abstract
As a group, celibate communal societies have been the most successful communal societies in the United States. There have been many valuable studies of the celibate communal societies as individual societies. Unfortunately, there has been a lack of studies investigating their unity as a religious group, as examples of a particular phenomenon within Pietism. This study, limited to the seven earliest, celibate communal societies in the United States, has attempted to prove that the beliefs and practices of those seven societies united them as a group within Pietism similar to the unity of Pietist groups within Christianity, Bohemia Manor, the "Woman in the Wilderness," Ephrata Cloister, the Shaker Society, the Society of Universal Friends, the Harmony Society, and the Separatist Society of Zoar were examples of a special kind of religious group which can properly be called the "Radical Pietists." That conclusion is based on their Pietist heritage, their interrelationships, and their shared belief in direct inspiration, millennialism, separation from the world, asceticism, celibacy, and communism, The category, "Radical Pietists" was not intended to be limited to the seven societies in this study, The criteria developed in this study as the means for identifying the societies which fit the description, "Radical Pietists," might well be useful in understanding other celibate communal societies.
Year of Submission
1972
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
Department of History
First Advisor
Glenda Gates McIntosh
Second Advisor
Ronald E. Roberts
Third Advisor
Charles Quirk
Date Original
1972
Object Description
1 PDF file (273 leaves)
Copyright
©1972 Delburn Carpenter
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Carpenter, Delburn, "The Radical Pietists: Celibate Communal Societies Established in the United States Before 1820" (1972). Dissertations and Theses @ UNI. 2324.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/etd/2324
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