Protestant Communalism in the Trans-Atlantic World, 1650-1850  [electronic resource] / 
edited by Philip Lockley. 
 - London :  Palgrave Macmillan UK(Imprint),  2016. 
 - XIII, 230 p. 11 illus., 7 illus. in color.  online resource. 
 - Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World .
<br/><br/> This book explores the trans-Atlantic history of Protestant traditions of communalism - communities of shared property. The sixteenth-century Reformation may have destroyed monasticism in northern Europe, but Protestant Christianity has not always denied common property. Between 1650 and 1850, a range of Protestant groups adopted communal goods, frequently after crossing the Atlantic to North America: the Ephrata community, the Shakers, the Harmony Society, the Community of True Inspiration, and others. Early Mormonism also developed with a communal dimension, challenging its surrounding Protestant culture of individualism and the free market. In a series of focussed and survey studies, this book recovers the trans-Atlantic networks and narratives, ideas and influences, which shaped Protestant communalism across two centuries of early modernity. . 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781137484871 (ebook:PDF) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Europe-History.<br/>Imperialism.<br/>America-History.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>940