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This is a list of intentional communities. An intentional community is a planned residential community designed from the start to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political, religious, or spiritual vision and often follow an alternative lifestyle.
The Bruderhof (/ ˈ b r uː d ər ˌ h ɔː f /; 'place of brothers') is a communal Anabaptist Christian movement that was founded in Germany in 1920 by Eberhard Arnold.The movement has communities in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Paraguay, and Australia.
The farm was founded in 1942 by two couples, Clarence and Florence Jordan and Martin and Mabel England, as a "demonstration plot for the Kingdom of God." [2] For them, this meant following the example of the first Christian communities as described in the Acts of the Apostles, amid the poverty and racism of the rural South.
A utopian socialist community Rugby: Tennessee Thomas Hughes: 1880 1887 A community based on Christian socialism. Am Olam: Across the US Mania Bakl and Moses Herder 1881 Most disbanded by the 1890s Jewish social movement that sought to create agricultural communities in America. [11] Shalam Colony: New Mexico John B. Newbrough Andrew Howland ...
One of them, Elmendorf, branched out two times, so that there are now five colonies of that kind, which co-operate closely, thus forming a new affiliation of Hutterite Christian Communities. Fort Pitt Farms Christian Community is a Christian Community of Hutterite Dariusleut origin and with many Hutterite traditions but fully autonomous since ...
Pages in category "Christian communities" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Adonai-Shomo;
Two whole Christian communities have joined the Amish: The church at Smyrna, Maine, one of the five Christian Communities of Elmo Stoll after Stoll's death [118] [119] and the church at Manton, Michigan, which belonged to a community that was founded by Harry Wanner (1935–2012), a minister of Stauffer Old Order Mennonite background. [120]
There are also large Christian communities in other parts of the world, such as Indonesia, Central Asia, the Middle East, and West Africa where Christianity is the second-largest religion after Islam. The United States has the largest Christian population in the world, followed by Brazil, Mexico, Russia, and the Philippines. [12]