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Title: Religion and Sexuality


1
Religion and Sexuality
  • A Comparison
  • The Shakers, The Oneida Community, and The
    Mormons
  • And other communities

2
Todays Agenda
  • Objective To examine the various utopian
    societies founded and the values they encouraged.
  • Essential Skill Explicitly assess information
    and draw conclusions.

3
Review
  • With your group sort the terms, figures,
    movements into categories
  • Make sure you are able to identify/define each
    term
  • Discuss the connection among them

4
What is a Utopia?
  • Why were these utopias founded?
  • What values did the societies promote and why
    were they alluring?

5
Utopian Communities gt Burned Over District
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The Shakers
  • Mother Ann Lee
  • The major tenant of the Shaker faith was a belief
    in celibacy and no marriage
  • Shaker men and women lived separately in various
    communities within the United States.

7
Shakers
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The Oneida Community
  • John Noyes
  • The Oneida Community was based on the belief that
    monogamy caused jealousy and was the basis for
    the worlds evils.
  • They practiced group marriage and believed in
    perfectionism

11
Mansion House A sprawling, resplendent building,
it formed the center of the Oneida Communitys
life and was a stunning specimen of
mid-nineteenth-century architectural and
engineering achievement.
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Oneida
                                               
                                                  
 
  • Eugenics
  • Criticism
  • Complex marriage
  • Birth Control
  • Made steel traps
  • Silverware


13
The Mormons
  • Joseph Smith claimed that God had revealed golden
    tablets of the Book of Mormon.
  • Became firmly established in Illinois.
  • Driven out and Joseph Smith killed.

14
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
(The Mormons)
  • Migrated to Utah (Salt Lake City) under Brigham
    Young.
  • The Mormons believed in the practice of polygamy
    until the late nineteenth century.
  • Utah War with the federal government
  • Utah admitted to the Union (1896) after polygamy
    had been repudiated formally
  • World religion today

Mitt Romney
15
Robert Owen New Harmony
  • New Harmony, Indiana
  • Other Owenites settled in Economy, PA., where
    their sect survived into the early 1900s.
  • Communistic colony. A cultural and scientific
    center attracted many noted scientists,
    educators, and writers.
  • Dissension arose failed in 1828.The town
    remained an intellectual center.

16
Vision of New Harmony
  • The nations first
  • kindergarten
  • free public school (equal for boys and girls)
  • free library

17
Brook Farm, Massachusetts
  • Founded by George Ripley, a Unitarian minister.
  • Cooperative living.
  • financed by a joint-stock company
  • Unitarianism and Transcendentalism
  • Intellectual living
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Wrote Blithedale Romance
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Horace
    Greeley also visited.
  • Collapsed Fire and debt

18
Utopias vs. Distopias
  • Why did they ultimately fail?

19
  • What did the establishment of these utopian and
    religious communities reflect about American
    society?
  • Have we seen efforts to establish similar
    communities in recent times?
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