SUSAN LOVE BROWN
God and Gender:  Structures of Opportunity in an American, Yogic Community   1

WILLIAM METCALF
Federative Home   25

MARY ANN HAAGEN
The Truth, The Whole Truth?:  A re-examination of James Hervey Elkins' 15 Years in the Senior Order of Shakers   47

ILYON WOO
From "Sensual Attraction" to "A Malady of the Mind":  How Hervey Elkins Loved and Left the Shakers   65

NEVA JEAN SPECHT 
Constrained to Afford Them Countenance and Protection:  The role of the Philadelphia Friends in the Settlement of the Society of Separatists of Zoar   95

LAWRENCE AND ROSE SCHEIN
Searching for Solidarity in Uncharted Territory   109

HEATHER SULLIVAN-CATLIN
"A Good Borderland":  Cohousing Communities and Social Change  119


DOCUMENTS

REBECCA HILL
"The Food Suitor" and "A Journal Entry...1999"   141

REVIEWS

PETER HOEHNLE
The Riddle of Amish Culture by Donald B. Kraybill   147

RICHARD A. LYNCH
Visions of Utopia by Edward Rothstein, Herbert Muschamp, Martin E. Marty  150

TIM MILLER
The Palgrave Companion to North American Utopias by John W. Friesen and Virginia Lyons Friesen  155

DAVID NELSON
Bones and Ash by Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati   159

DONALD E. PITZER
A Singular People:  Images of Zoar by Kathleen M. Fernandez   161

COVER

Wainoni House, Federative Home, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1899.    Photograph courtesy of Erin McGifford and Alec Bickerton.