Shaker, member of the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, a celibate millenarian group that established communal settlements in the United States in the 18th century.
The ultra-Orthodox had been stung by a rash of Supreme Court decisions, including rulings that exemption from military service for students in yeshivot (religious seminaries) was no longer legally valid, while shopping on the Sabbath in the secular kibbutz communal settlements was.
Alternating waves of prosperity and persecution have borne the Hutterites from Moravia to Russia and, finally, in the 1870's, to North America, where most of them now live in small, communal settlements, surrounded by the raw, expansive landscape they call home.
For Pos 66 (13 households) and Olifantwater (6 household), two communal settlements surrounding Fransfontein, all households were interviewed.
In Chute's first novel in nearly 10 years, disparate characters cluster around an off-the-grid communal settlement.
Étienne Cabet, (born Jan . 1 , 1788Dijon, Fr. died Nov. 8, 1856, St . Louis Mo., U.S). French socialist and founder of a communal settlement at Nauvoo, Ill.
Wright had bought two thousand acres of land on the Wolf River at Nashoba, Tennessee, with the aim of establishing a communal settlement where slaves would receive the education and practical skills that would fit them for freedom.
January 1 , 1788Dijon, France November 8, 1856 Missouri, United States Étienne Cabet, (born Jan . 1 , 1788Dijon, Fr. died Nov. 8, 1856, St . Louis Mo., U.S). French socialist and founder of a communal settlement at Nauvoo, Ill.
For nearly a century, the kibbutz – an Israeli communal settlement form based on total cooperation and equality in production, marketing, and consumption – has been part of the Israeli legacy, expressed in its many historical assets and cultural landscapes.
For the first 11 years (1982 1992), the study site was grazed by a beef herd managed by a nearby communal settlement (Hatal1); it was consequently subject to the advantages and limitations of integration into a larger beef ranching operation and a complex socio-economic organization.
In 1949, a Jewish communal settlement, Kibbutz Beit Guvrin, was founded on the former town's lands.
