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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.
Sunward is situated on 20 acres (eight hectares) of land with 10-acre (40,000 m 2) mature oak and hickory woods contains paths, a nature study area, hidden hammocks, and rolling hills, and it forms a large, common "backyard" to the north of the tightly clustered homes.
Members of the community attended Sunday morning services at their local Catholic or Protestant churches (apart from the Word of God community), and then met together for a weekly district prayer meeting, and a monthly citywide prayer meeting. Many families home-schooled their children and the community also had its own school.
Intentional, intergenerational communities focus on a common goal, such as helping to support foster or adoptive parents or injured veterans or young adults with disabilities such as autism. The ...
A religious intentional community is a residential community with a shared religious identity designed to have a high degree of group cohesiveness and teamwork. A religious community [ 1 ] [ 2 ] is a group of people of the same religion living together specifically for religious purposes, often subject to formal commitments such as religious ...
The Foundation for Intentional Community (FIC), formerly the Fellowship of Intentional Communities then the Fellowship for Intentional Community, provides publications, referrals, support services, and "sharing opportunities" for a wide range of intentional communities including: cohousing groups, community land trusts, communal societies, class-harmony communities, housing cooperatives ...
Intentional communities, such as the Simple Way, the Bruderhof communities, [2] and the Community of St Anselm [3] are intentional communities based on Christian values and beliefs. While not necessarily representing distinct or actual lifestyles, many themes and areas of human interest, activity, and study exist that contribute to intentional ...
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