Communal Life

Author : Yosef Gorni,Iaácov Oved,IditWyEd Paz
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1412819938

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Communal Life by Yosef Gorni,Iaácov Oved,IditWyEd Paz Pdf

This remarkable compendium brings together more than eighty scholars from throughout the world to examine the experience of the kibbutz and communal living. Through careful examination of the ideological, historical, educational, sociological, and economic origins and realities of communal living, the contributors provide strong and positive support for the belief that a cooperative society can exist within an antagonistic, competitive system. Taken together, these contributions provide dialogue among and between those who research communal life, and those who live it.

Author : Candis Callison
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780822376064

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How Climate Change Comes to Matter by Candis Callison Pdf

During the past decade, skepticism about climate change has frustrated those seeking to engage broad publics and motivate them to take action on the issue. In this innovative ethnography, Candis Callison examines the initiatives of social and professional groups as they encourage diverse American publics to care about climate change. She explores the efforts of science journalists, scientists who have become expert voices for and about climate change, American evangelicals, Indigenous leaders, and advocates for corporate social responsibility. The disparate efforts of these groups illuminate the challenge of maintaining fidelity to scientific facts while transforming them into ethical and moral calls to action. Callison investigates the different vernaculars through which we understand and articulate our worlds, as well as the nuanced and pluralistic understandings of climate change evident in different forms of advocacy. As she demonstrates, climate change offers an opportunity to look deeply at how issues and problems that begin in a scientific context come to matter to wide publics, and to rethink emerging interactions among different kinds of knowledge and experience, evolving media landscapes, and claims to authority and expertise.

Author : Arthur Ross
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887555756

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Communal Solidarity by Arthur Ross Pdf

Between 1882 and 1930 approximately 9,800 Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe settled in Winnipeg. Newly arrived Jewish immigrants began to establish secular mutual aid societies, organizations based on egalitarian principles of communal solidarity that dealt with the pervasive problem of economic insecurity by providing financial relief to their members. The organization of mutual aid societies accelerated the development of a vibrant secular public sphere in Winnipeg’s Jewish community in which decisions about the provision of social welfare were decided democratically based on the authority and participation of the people. "Communal Solidarity: Immigration, Settlement, and Social Welfare in Winnipeg’s Jewish Community, 1882–1930" looks at the development of Winnipeg’s Jewish community and the network of institutions and organizations they established to provide income assistance, health care, institutional care for children and the elderly, and immigrant aid to reunite families. Communal solidarity enabled the Jewish community to establish and sustain a system of social welfare that assisted thousands of immigrants to adjust to an often inhospitable city and build new lives in Canada. Arthur Ross’s study of the formation of Winnipeg’s Jewish community is not only the first history of the societies, institutions, and organizations Jewish immigrants created, it reveals how communal solidarity shaped their understanding of community life and the way decisions should be made about their collective future.

Author : Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400945388

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The Moral Sense in the Communal Significance of Life by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka Pdf

Author : Josephine Hall
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781447709367

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Is this the Future?: An investigation into communal living by Josephine Hall Pdf

"I think growing up in communes gives you a sense of knowing that there are different ways to organise society. As a child, you begin to realise that there are different experiments. The world you live in isn't given, it's created, it's a construct. And it gives you a sense, I think, as an adult, that you don't necessarily have to accept the way things are, and you can do things differently. Or you might accept them because you feel safe. But you know that they're made and that they can be unmade."(Sean Gaston, 2010)Over two years Josephine Hall conducted several interviews and visited three intentional communities, documenting her findings along the way. A collage of fictionalised personal accounts, interviews and investigative essays, Is this the Future? is a frank and compassionate exploration into the subject of communal living.

Author : Leonard A. Jason,Joseph R Ferrari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317982692

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Recovery from Addiction in Communal Living Settings by Leonard A. Jason,Joseph R Ferrari Pdf

Research on treatment outcome for addictive disorders indicates that a variety of interventions are effective. However, the progress clients make in treatment frequently is undermined by the lack of an alcohol and drug free living environment supporting sustained recovery. This book suggests that treatment providers have not paid sufficient attention to the social environments where clients live after residential treatment or while attending outpatient programs. It also describes the need for alcohol and drug free living environments. We then review the history of communal living for recovering addicts and alcoholics and provide concrete examples of the Oxford House model, which is a widespread communal living option for over 10,000 recovering persons in the US. The structure and philosophy of Oxford Houses are presented along with recent outcome studies providing support for their effectiveness. This book was published as a special issue in the Journal of Groups in Addiction and Recovery.

Author : P. Messana
Publisher : Springer
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230118102

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Soviet Communal Living by P. Messana Pdf

This book brings together fascinating testimonies from thirty inhabitants of the 'Kommunalka,' the communal apartments that were the norm in housing in the cities of Russia during the whole history of the Soviet Union.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004236257

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The Communal Idea in the 21st Century by Anonim Pdf

The idea of a better society as associated with the communal idea is investigated from both theoretical perspectives and through contemporary experiences around the world. This idea leaves nobody indifferent. Whatever the hardship that its concretization implies, however, once it does materialize, it cannot, as such avoid new challenges, tensions and unexpected claims. This means, at varying degrees, negations of, and removals from, the “utopian inspiration”. Humans are able to create unprecedented conditions of life under most ambitious inspirations, but are unable to safeguard their achievements from change, alterations and contradictions. In this, however, another aspect of the utopian realizations is that they ultimately leave room for new utopist thinking and enrolment. As far, indeed, the utopian inspiration draws its vitality from potent civilizational codes, its renewal from ashes is as unavoidable as its self-betrayal through materialization. Contributors included: Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Rami Degany, Amitai Etzioni, Maria Fölling-Albers, Yiftah Goldman, Ruth Kark, Yossi Katz, John Lehr, Graham Meltzer, Bill Metcalf, Timothy Miller, Yaacov Oved, Michal Palgi, Donald E. Pitzer, Shulamit Reinharz, Lyman Tower Sargent, György Széll, Menachem Topel, Katherine Trebeck, and Chris Warhurst.

Author : William Hedgepeth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034938261

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The Alternative by William Hedgepeth Pdf

"This photographic survey and accompanying text reveal various experiments in communal living and the philosophies behind them." --

Author : Donald E. Pitzer
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807898970

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America's Communal Utopias by Donald E. Pitzer Pdf

From the Shakers to the Branch Davidians, America's communal utopians have captured the popular imagination. Seventeen original essays here demonstrate the relevance of such groups to the mainstream of American social, religious, and economic life. The contributors examine the beliefs and practices of the most prominent utopian communities founded before 1965, including the long-overlooked Catholic monastic communities and Jewish agricultural colonies. Also featured are the Ephrata Baptists, Moravians, Shakers, Harmonists, Hutterites, Inspirationists of Amana, Mormons, Owenites, Fourierists, Icarians, Janssonists, Theosophists, Cyrus Teed's Koreshans, and Father Divine's Peace Mission. Based on a new conceptual framework known as developmental communalism, the book examines these utopian movements throughout the course of their development--before, during, and after their communal period. Each chapter includes a brief chronology, giving basic information about the group discussed. An appendix presents the most complete list of American utopian communities ever published. The contributors are Jonathan G. Andelson, Karl J. R. Arndt, Pearl W. Bartelt, Priscilla J. Brewer, Donald F. Durnbaugh, Lawrence Foster, Carl J. Guarneri, Robert V. Hine, Gertrude E. Huntington, James E. Landing, Dean L. May, Lawrence J. McCrank, J. Gordon Melton, Donald E. Pitzer, Robert P. Sutton, Jon Wagner, and Robert S. Weisbrot.

Author : Thomas Rohkrämer
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845453688

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A Single Communal Faith? by Thomas Rohkrämer Pdf

How could the Right transform itself from a politics of the nobility to a fatally attractive option for people from all parts of society? How could the Nazis gain a good third of the votes in free elections and remain popular far into their rule? A number of studies from the 1960s have dealt with the issue, in particular the works by George Mosse and Fritz Stern. Their central arguments are still challenging, but a large number of more specific studies allow today for a much more complex argument, which also takes account of changes in our understanding of German history in general. This book shows that between 1800 and 1945 the fundamentalist desire for a single communal faith played a crucial role in the radicalization of Germany's political Right. A nationalist faith could gain wider appeal, because people were searching for a sense of identity and belonging, a mental map for the modern world and metaphysical security.

Author : Tamar Katriel
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 079140644X

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Communal Webs by Tamar Katriel Pdf

This book brings together insights derived from a detailed exploration of Israeli cultural patterns of communication, highlighting their role in the processes of culture formation, maintenance, and change. Katriel's ethnographic examples provide a richly-textured account of Israeli cultural experience, illustrating the potential of a cultural analysis grounded in the study of ideologically-informed communicative practices. The author addresses central issues in contemporary anthropology and human communication studies such as the identification of cultural communication patterns in ethnographic research, conceptualizations of the notions of culture and community, the rhetorical force of cultural communication forms, the role of ritualization in communication and social processes, the critical potential of ethnographic work, and the ethnographer's stance in studying one's own culture.

Author : Peter Blickle
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0391037307

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Communal Reformation by Peter Blickle Pdf

Communal Reformation is the most original and provocative book to appear in its field in the past quarter-century. It met with an enthusiastic response, particularly in England and the United States, when first published in Germany in 1985 and is now available in translation. Peter Blickle's groundbreaking study, which is intended for scholars and students interested in the history of pre-modern Europe, the development of Germany, the history of Christianity, and historical sociology, reconstructs the connection between the crisis of rural society at the end of the Middle Ages, the great Peasants' War of 1525, and the reformation as a social movement. Blickle focuses on southern Germany, Switzerland, and Austria in the later Middle Ages and Early Modern eras (roughly 1400 to 1600), though his work has important implications for the social and religious history of Europe as a whole.

Author : Simon C. Thomson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004360860

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Communal Creativity in the Making of the 'Beowulf' Manuscript by Simon C. Thomson Pdf

In Communal Creativity in the Making of the ‘Beowulf’ Manuscript, Simon Thomson analyses details of scribal activity to tell a story about the project that preserved Beowulf as one of a collective, if error-strewn, endeavour.

Author : Rahima Schwenkbeck
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030883546

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The Business of Marketing, Entrepreneurship, and Architecture of Communal Societies in the 1960s and 1970s by Rahima Schwenkbeck Pdf

This book provides an in-depth history of three US-based communal societies that operated in the late 1960s and 1970s—Soul City, Stelle and Twin Oaks—with an emphasis on their financing, marketing, and entrepreneurship processes. These communities reflect the diversity of people who were dissatisfied with the direction in which American society was heading—often underpinned by concerns over racism, sexism, the environment, and capitalism—and decided to take the radical step of joining a communal society. A moral economy approach offers a lens on how these communities were prevented from fully realizing their visions due to the confines of capitalism, as embedded in banking practices, zoning laws, and systemic racism.