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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.
Community Service, Inc. was created in 1940 to advocate for the resurgence of the idealistic small-town family life, while the later Fellowship of Intentional Communities was created as an association of the full range of communitarian societies, including: secular or religious communities, communal societies, co-operative communities, and ...
Elmendorf Christian Community in Mountain Lake, Minnesota (founded in 1994, independent since 2005) [1] Fort Pitt Farms Christian Community in Frenchman Butte, Saskatchewan, Canada (independent since 1999) Grand River Christian Community in Jamesport, Missouri, United States (since 2014)
The Hutterites [89] is a documentary filmed by Colin Law in 1964 with the following synopsis: "The followers of religious leader Jakob Hutter live in farm communities, devoutly holding to the rules their founder laid down four centuries ago. Through the kindness of a Hutterite colony in Alberta, this film, in black and white, was made inside ...
Shenandoah Homesteads Project is an unincorporated community in Rappahannock County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. References
The emphasis on voluntary poverty and the community of goods in the beginning made it impossible to save money to buy more land in other locations. Therefore the community of goods was soon abandoned and the “Christian Community" could spread to other places. When Elmo Stoll died in 1998, there were five “Christian Communities”:
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Christian is the author of two books designed to help people who want to join or start their own ecovillages or other intentional communities.In Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities, she uses success stories, cautionary tales, and step-by-step advice to cover typical time-frames and costs; the role of founders; getting started as a group ...