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September 12th, 2011

From Oneida to the world (part I)

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Tucked in a quiet corner of upstate New York, around a bend in a lonely road, there stands a dramatically large brick building that once housed 300 radical Christian communists. The Oneida Community Mansion House was home to a group of Christians who shared everything among themselves, from possessions to labor. To share as they did required being in each other’s immediate presence with limited interaction with outsiders. How, then, did the Oneidans imagine themselves to connect to the world at all, let alone serve as a model for a new way of global life?

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