Religion, society, and utopia in nineteenth-century America / Ira L. Mandelker.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-176) and index.

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Part I: Religious utopia and the tension between religion and world -- 1. Introduction -- Max Weber and the tension between religion and world -- Religious organization and the relationship between ideal and material interests -- The new sacred history: postmillennial progressivism and the unification of religion and world -- The tension between religion and world in nineteenth-century America and the Oneida Community's utopian experiment -- Part II: Protestantism and society in the United States -- 2. The tension between religion and economy -- The contradictions of Puritan colonial life: the jeremiad, "vocation," and economic activity -- The Puritan commonwealth vs. secular economic individualism -- The North's industrial explosion, 1790-1860 -- Juggling the Christian calling and laissez-faire political economy -- The second Great Awakening and the contradiction of "Christian" capitalism -- The economic ideology of John Humphrey Noyes -- 3. Religion and democracy

American Protestantism and democracy: the convergence of ideals -- American Protestantism and democracy: antinomianism, revivalism, and the free individual -- Antimasonry: the democratic ideal fed with religious intensity -- Aristocracy and inequality in New York State: the tension between religious and democratic ideals and political life -- New York State politics and the religious undercurrent of democratic reform -- Democratic theocracy: the political thought of John Humphrey Noyes -- 4. The tension between religion and sex, women, and the family -- The tension between sex and religion: Puritanism's sexual ambivalence -- American Victorianism, revivalism, and the tension between sex and religion -- Religion, sex, and asociality -- Women's roles and the tension between religion and world -- Religion and the family: the tension between American Protestantism and secular social change -- 5. The tension between religion and science

Max Weber and the tension between religion and science -- The harmony between science and Protestantism in America -- Religion and the theoretical and normative structure of scientific thought -- The maturation of American science -- The emerging tension between religion and science -- Revivalism, anti-intellectualism, and clerical decline -- Part III: The Oneida Community: A utopian resolution of the tension between religion and world -- 6. The theology of John Humphrey Noyes -- History, millennium, and utopia -- John Humphrey Noyes's new sacred history and the doctrine of perfect holiness -- The new covenant, and freedom from law and political order -- Perfectionism and economy -- Perfectionism, love, marriage, and the family -- 7. The Oneida Community: transcending the tensions between religion and world in practice -- The politics of consensus -- Transcending the tension between religion and sexuality -- Sex, love, and marriage at Oneida

Sex and spiritual perfection: the Oneida sexual economy -- The status of women at the Oneida Community -- Children at the Oneida Community -- Economic life at the Oneida Community -- Science and education at the Oneida Community -- 8. The breakup of the Oneida Community: reemerging tensions between religion and world -- The interface of utopia and "extopia" -- Administration of the government of God -- The emerging conflict between science and religion -- Abandoning complex marriage -- Production, administration, and Oneida's economic ideology -- 9. Epilogue.

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