CONTENTS

PETER MICHAEL FORSTER AND WILLIAM JAMES METCALF
Communal Groups: Social Laboratories or Places of Exile?, 1

JAMES A. KITTS
Analyzing Communal Life-Spans: A Dynamic Structural Approach, 13

CLARK KIMBERLING
"I am, dear Sir, your grateful disciple, Margaret Chappellsmith," 27

BRADLEY B. ANDREW AND METIN M. COSGEL
Regional Differences in the Size and Composition of Communal Membership: The Shakers, 1850-187,0 45

PETER HOEHNLE
Communal Bonds: Contact between the Amana Society and Other Communal Groups, 1843-1932, 59

CHARLES P. LEWARNE
The Commune That Didn't Come to Town: The Love Israel Family and a Small Town in Idaho, 81

DOCUMENT

ELLEN BROSLOVSKY
Just to Breathe: Personal Recollections of Synanon Founder Chuck Dederich 97

REVIEWS

ALLEN BUTCHER
People of the Rainbow: A Nomadic Utopia, by Michael I. Niman, 109

WENDY E. CHMIELEWSKI
Two Kingdoms, Two Loyalties: Mennonite Pacifism in Modern America, by Perry Bush, 112

YVONNE BELANGER JOHNSON
A Socialist Utopia in the New South: The Ruskin Colonies in Tennessee and Georgia, 1894-1901, by W. Fitzhugh Brundage, 114

MARLYN MCGARY KLEE
Moravian Women's Memoirs: Their Related Lives, 1750-1820, translated by Katherine M. Faull, 117

BRUCE PLENK
Voices From the Farm, edited by Rupert Fike, 120

PHILIP E. WEBBER
Picturing Utopia: Bertha Shambaugh and the Amana Photographers, by Abigail Foerstner, 122

COVER

The journal cover shows five members of the Love Israel family performing at the University Street Fair in Seattle, Washington, circa 1970. Love Israel is the man on the far right. Photograph by Barbara Bruch, Sev Shoon Arts Center, Seattle, Washington.