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A comparative analysis of both secular and religious communal groups in contemporary America, this study, originally published in 1978, shows that contemporary communalists stand in relation to collectivism much the same as early Protestants stood in relation to individualism - as the self-proclaimed pioneers of the new age.
John R Hall
John R. Hall is director of the Center for History, Society, and Culture at the University of California, Davis and has also taught sociology at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He is the author of Apocalypse Observed: Religious Movements and Violence in North America, Europe, and Japan and The Ways Out: Utopian Communal Groups in an Age of Babylon.
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