CONTENTS

ISAO UEMICHI,
Paradise in Japanese Literature, 1

WILLIAM SIMS BAINBRIDGE,aa
The Decline of the Shakers:  Evidence from the United States Census, 19

MICHAEL BARKUN,
Communal Societies as Cyclical Phenomena, 35

GORDON F. SUTTON,
Structural Features of an Enacted Community, 49

RUTH SHONLE CAVAN,
Analysis of Health Practices among the Amish with Reference to Boundary Maintenance, 59

VIOLET AND ORLANDO J. GOERING,
The Agricultural Communes of the Am Olam, 74

ANNE TAYLOR,
Darkness into Light:  Laurence Oliphant’s Experience of Communal Discipline in the United States and Palestine, 87

PER NØRRUNG,
Work or Activity:  From the Classical “Curse of Work” to the Willed Activity of Modern Production Communes, 97

TONYA K. FLESHER AND DALE L. FLESHER,
The Contributions of Accounting to the Early Success of the Harmonists, 109

KAROL H. BOROWSKI,
From the Tree House to the 2001 Center:  The Renaissance Movement in the United States, 121

THREE VIEWS OF AMANA

WALTER GROSSMANN,
The Origins of the True Inspired of Amana, 133

DONALD F. DURNBAUGH,
Eberhard Ludwig Gruber and Johann Adam Gruber:  A Father and Son as Early Inspirationist Leaders, 150

HENRY SCHIFF,
Before and After 1932:  A Memoir, 161

TWO COMMUNITARIAN WOMEN

JOSEPHINE MIRABELLA ELLIOTT.
Madame Marie Fretageot:  Communitarian Educator, 167

CELIA ECKHARDT,
Fanny Wright:  Rebel and Communitarian Reformer, 183

TWO MEMOIRS

EDNA C. DON,
The Nature of Chinese People’s Communes During the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976, 197

JEFFERSON P. SELTH,
The Ashram of Graton Road:  Morning Star Ranch, a California Commune in the 1960’s, 204

TENTH ANNIVERSARY ADDRESSES

DONALD E. PITZER,
The Uses of the American Communal Past:  Keynote Address for the Tenth Annual Historic Communal Societies Conference, New Harmony, Indiana, October 13, 1983, 215

JOHN F. C. HARRISON,
Owenite Communitarianism in Britain and America, 243

REVIEWS

TED C. HINCKLEY,
Community on the American Frontier:  Separate but not Alone, by Robert V. Hine, 249

JANE F. CROSTHWAITE,
Gift Drawing and Gift Song:  A Study of Two Forms of Shaker Inspiration, by Daniel W. Patterson, 250

MICHAEL FELLMAN,
Religion, Society, and Utopia in Nineteenth-Century America by Ira L. Mandelker, 252

JANE DUPREE BEGOS,
A Sort of Utopia, Scarsdale, 1891-1981, by Carol A. O’Connor, 254

JAYME A. SOKOLOW,
The Second Coming:  Popular Millenarianism, 1780-1850, by John F. C. Harrison, 255

JOHN L. NETHERS,
The Spirit and the Flesh:  Sex in Utopian Communities by Robert H. and Jeannette C. Lauer, 257

CORNELIUS KRAHN,
Das Vergessne Volk:  Ein Jahr bei den Deutschen Hutterern in Kanada, by Michael Holzach, 258

GEORGE N. GREEN,
Marxists and Utopians in Texas, by Ernst C. Fisher, 259

ROBERT GALBREATH,
Miracles and Prophecies in Nineteenth-Century France, by Thomas A. Kselman, 261

STEVEN CARLTON-FORD,
Ananda—Where Yoga Lives, by John Ball, 262

GREGORY W. BROWN,
Cooperative Communities; How to Start Them and Why, by Swami Kriyananda, 264

COVER

From a photograph in The Amanas Yesterday:  Historic Photographs, 1900-1932.  (Iowa City, Iowa: Penfield Press, 1975; 215 Brown Street, Iowa City, IA  52245; $10.95, softcover.)