This core concept focused on the ability of leaders to motivate their community members.
What is charisma?
100
This group is notorious for practicing polygyny in the US.
Who are the Mormans?
100
These are three main changes to marriage in the US over the last several decades.
What is the rise in:
Marriage age,
% Cohabiting,
Women who work,
Children out of wedlock,
Divorce
100
This term refers to an idealized community that strives toward a perfect society.
What is a utopia?
100
This religion is based on the four noble truths.
What is Buddhism?
200
This core concept focused on the feeling of unity and ecstasy within an intentional community.
What is communitas?
200
This community lived in a mansion and practiced complex marriage?
Who are the Oneida?
200
Despite the breakdown of this institution, 90% percent of people in the US will eventually do this.
What is marriage?
200
Morman leader Joseph Smith did this highly controversial practice.
What is took married women as his wives?
200
What vague but powerful concept have companies recently been striving to understand, usually through teens, in order to make money.
What is cool?
300
This core concept focused on the physical, cultural, and emotional distance that intentional communities have to mainstream society.
What is liminality?
300
This community was neo-Pentecostal and followed a woman named Marie.
Who are In Search of Truth?
300
In “The Edge and the Center: Gated Communities and the Discourse of Urban Fear” Low describes the exodus to these communities as the result of this emotion.
What is fear?
300
The theoretical framework of this anthropologist was used repeatedly in Brown.
Who is Victor Turner?
300
This rare form of marriage involves more than one man (usually brothers) marrying a single woman. This is famously practiced in Tibet.
What is polyandry?
400
This core concept refers to the strong belief in the importance of communities.
What is communitarianism?
400
This celibate community would often perform "strange" rituals in order to rid themselves of pride.
Who are the Shakers?
400
In “The Deinstitutionalization of American Marriage,” Andrew Cherlin describes our society's transition towards this form of relationship with no official marriage status.
What is the pure relationship?
400
This is the number of intense periods of intentional community creation in the US.
What is 5?
400
These are the five pillars of Islam.
What is the:
Belief in God and Muhammad,
Ritual prayer (5x/day),
Ramadan,
Giving to charity,
Pilgrimage to Mecca
500
This term refers generally to communities that are not considered intentional, due to the randomness that members end up together.
What are natural communities?
500
This intentional community lasted for decades in Indiana and was run by the charismatic George Rapp.
What is the Harmony Society?
500
In “Cooperation and Commune Longevity: A Test of the Costly Signaling Theory of Religion” Sosis and Bressler describe these two factors as being most important for predicting the survival of a community.
What are religion and high cost rituals?
500
These two terms refer to the coming together and breaking apart of communities.
What are sociogenesis and schismogenesis?
500
This was the theme of the intentional community that your professor stayed with.