Timothy Miller is a professor of religious studies at the University of Kansas. He has published two earlier books on intentional communities, including The Quest for Utopia in Twentieth-Century America to which this new volume is a successor. He co-directed the 60s Communes Project, an extensive documentation effort that preserved memories and artifacts from the 1960s-era communes.
As a historian of both the counterculture and non-mainline spirituality, Miller has a properly broad perspective from which to view U.S. communalism. In this sequel to The Quest for Utopia in 20th-Century America, he examines the communes' brief zenith. But while Miller's surveying skills are, indeed, considerable--his appendixes identify 1600-plus communes extant in 1960-75. . . . Miller has done a great service: there are precious few scholarly treatments of the movement--nearly all the existing material on 1960s communalism was published before 1975. An important acquisition; recommended for academic and theological libraries.-- "Library Journal"
As a historian of both the counterculture and non-mainline spirituality, Miller has a properly broad perspective from which to view U.S. communalism. In this sequel to The Quest for Utopia in 20th-Century America, he examines the communes' brief zenith. But while Miller's surveying skills are, indeed, considerable--his appendixes identify 1600-plus communes extant in 1960-75. . . . Miller has done a great service: there are precious few scholarly treatments of the movement--nearly all the existing material on 1960s communalism was published before 1975. An important acquisition; recommended for academic and theological libraries.-- "Library Journal"
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