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Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table
By : Ellen Wayland-Smith
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Book Synopsis :
A fascinating and unusual chapter in American history about a religious community that held radical notions of equality, sex, and religion?only to transform itself, at the beginning of the twentieth century, into a successful silverware company and a model of buttoned-down corporate propriety.In the early nineteenth century, many Americans were looking for an alternative to the Puritanism that had been the foundation of the new country. Amid the fervor of the religious revival known as the Second Great Awakening, John Humphrey Noyes, a spirited but socially awkward young man, attracted a group of devoted followers with his fiery sermons about creating Jesus? millennial kingdom here on Earth. Noyes established a revolutionary community in rural New York centered around achieving a life free of sin through God?s grace, while also espousing equality of the sexes and ?complex marriage,? a system of free love where sexual relations with multiple partners was encouraged. Noyes?s belief in
Book Detail :
Author : Ellen Wayland-Smith
Pages : 320 pages
Publisher : Picador
Language : eng
ISBN-10 : 1250043085
ISBN-13 : 9781250043085
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