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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.
The Communities Directory, A Comprehensive Guide to Intentional Community provides listing of intentional communities primarily from North America but also from around the world. The Communities Directory has both an online [ 1 ] and a print edition, [ 2 ] which is published based on data from the website.
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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.