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Working with the unpublished letters and diaries of Oneida's own members, Klaw has produced a fascinating study of religion, morals, and utopian idealism--"a sympathetic but shrewd account of one of America's most successful--and most sexually obsessed--religious cults" (Geoffrey C. Ward,... read more
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In the early summer of 1879 the members of the Oneida Community, a tightly knit and thriving society of some three hundred Christian communists living in upper New York State, received a startling and, to many, troubling piece of news.
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- Spencer Klaw (Author)
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