TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lockley,Philip
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Protestant Communalism in the Trans-Atlantic World, 1650-1850
T2  - Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World
SN  - 9781137484871 (ebook:PDF)
U1  - 940 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan UK(Imprint)
KW  - Europe-History
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - America-History
N2  - 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.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-48487-1
ER  -