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Intentional Communities in the United States and Canada—Current Movement

By: Laird Schaub
In: Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World
Edited by: Karen Christensen & David Levinson
Subject:Community Psychology, Sociology of Communities
Keywords:building codes; California; cohousing; ecovillages; Emissaries of Divine Light; intentional communities; spirituals

There have been North American intentional communities—groups living together on the basis of explicit common values—going back at least as far as the first European settlers. Generally these communities owned property together. Their numbers and variety have followed an arrhythmic ...

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  Schaub, L. (2003). Intentional communities in the united states and canada—current movement. In K. Christensen, & D. Levinson (Eds.), Encyclopedia of community: From the village to the virtual world (Vol. 1, pp. 759-762). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952583.n274
  
  Schaub, Laird. "Intentional Communities in the United States and Canada—Current Movement." In Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World, edited by Christensen, Karen, and David Levinson, 759-62. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952583.n274.
  
  Schaub, L. 2003. Intentional Communities in the United States and Canada—Current Movement. In: Karen Christensen and David Levinson Editors, 2003. Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. pp. 759-762 Available at: <http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952583.n274> [Accessed 13 Jun 2021].
  
  Schaub, Laird. "Intentional Communities in the United States and Canada—Current Movement." Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World. Edited by Karen Christensen and David Levinson. Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2003, pp. 759-62. SAGE Knowledge. 13 Jun 2021, doi: http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952583.n274.
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