Author: Carden, Maren Lockwood
Title: Oneida : Utopian Community to Modern Corporation.
Description: Baltimore (Maryland), The John Hopkins Press, 1969. hardcover, XX, 228 pp.. (ex library copy) (theocratic communal association of Perfectionists at Oneida, 1849-1880, under the leadership of John Humphrey Noyes; he advocated the "compex marriage" and stirpiculture -a kind of spiritual and physical eugenetics-; Noyes himself was regarded / regarded himself as one of the most suitable progenitors to father new to be born members, as well as the most eligible man ,in the self proclaimed role of 'first husband', to initiate girls ,having come to the age of around thirteen years, into sexuality; this practice finally led him into exile into Canada as to escape American criminal charges re statutory rape) ISBN: 801810191X

Keywords: history, USA, Oneida, community, sects, theology, Perfectionists, Utopia, John Humprey Noyes, leadership, charisma, stirpiculture, complex marriage, sexuality, inititation, virginity 801810191X


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