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Crawford Gribben. Evangelical Millennialism in the Trans-Atlantic World, 1500-2000. Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 202 pp. Cloth, 50.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 978-0-230-00825-0. In 2011 an American Christian radio broadcaster named [...]

Rebecca Reider. Dreaming the Biosphere: The Theater of All Possibilities. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2009. 310 pp. Paper, $27.95, ISBN: 978-0-8263-4674-2. Arising from the Arizona desert in the [...]

Donald B. Kraybill, ed. The Amish and the State. 2nd ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2003. xv + 351 pp. $19.95 (paper) One strain of utopianism yearns for a perceived [...]

Alternative Christs. Edited by Olav Hammer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. x + 305 pp. $93.00 cloth. Most professing Christians, it is safe to say, believe in and follow Christ, [...]

Charity, Endowments, and Charitable Institutions in Medieval Islam. By Yaacov Lev. (Gainsville: University Press of Florida. 2005. Pp. x, 215. $59.95.) Charitable institutions--hospitals for the sick, homes for orphans, asylums [...]

Foster Stockwell. Encyclopedia of American Communes, 1663-1963. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 1998. 262 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper). COMMUNAL STUDIES remains an infant field of inquiry in that some basic [...]

Thomas Robbins and Susan J. Palmer, eds. Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem: Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements. New York: Routledge, 1997. 334 pp. $75.00/50.00 £ (cloth), $19.99/13.99 £ (paper). THE USUAL TRICKLE of [...]

Byzantine Christianity. Edited by Derek Krueger. [A People's History of Christianity, vol. 3.] (Minneapolis: Fortress Press. 2006. Pp. xx, 252.) In introducing these ten articles, Derek Krueger emphasizes that this [...]

Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1998. x + 104 pp. $25.50. WHO IS A JEW? The age-old definition is seemingly simple: a person born to a Jewish mother, or [...]

Craig Cormick. Kurikka's Dreaming: The True Story of Matti Kurikka, Socialist, Utopian and Dreamer. East Roseville, NSW: Simon and Schuster (Australia), 2000. xx + 218 pp. FINNISH-AMERICANS have made an [...]

Sarah Hamilton-Byrne. Ringwood, Victoria, Australia: Penguin, 1995. 220 pp. Aust. $14.95. This recent addition to the genre of the anticult expose tells an interesting tale but raises more questions than [...]

Virginia Stem Owens. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1995. 167 pp. $15.99. IN 1977 THE FIRST EDITION of Assault on Eden was published under a pseudonym, 'Eugenia Adams.' Now, two [...]

Jeffrey Jacob. University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1997. xvi + 262 pp. $26.50. THE LARGEST BODY of practicing utopians in the United States and Canada, Jeffrey Jacob argues, are not [...]

Mariana Caplan. Prescott, Arizona: Hohm Press, 1996. xx+232pp. $14.95. THE BIGGEST THING WRONG with this book is that its publication by a small press will probably keep it from getting [...]

Arthur Huff Fauset. Black Gods of the Metropolis: Negro Religious Cults of the Urban North. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002 [1944]. xxiii + 126 pp. BLACK GODS or THE [...]

David Janzen. Fire, Salt, and Peace: Intentional Christian Communities Alive in North America. Evanston, IL: Shalom Mission Communities, 1996. 207 pp. $14.95. American Intentional Communities, so focused on a vision [...]