utopian communities

Utopianism is an idea that life on earth can be as beautiful and awesome as on heaven. That we can create our own life’s however an wherever we like. It’s based on some religion’s ideas of the Garden of Eden. “ A disposition to embrace the vision of an alternative society from which present social evils had been removed” Being able to create our own world with out the present evils. Many religions can relate to utopianism some examples can be Islamic Jewish Hinduism Buddhism. In the United States and Europe during the Second great awakening of the nineteenth century and soon after many radical religious groups formed utopian societies. They sought to form communities where all aspects of people’s lives were governed by their faith.
Most Utopian communities were very exclusive, creating religious attention, grudges, and disagreements. This helped to tear the nation apart because they were not active the society around them and did not abide with most laws. With in their communities model behavior was exercised as the people strived towards a perfect life, pulling us together through kindness. Utopianism contributed its sense of Individualism to the reform. The idea that your actions are not governed by tradition, but rather by individual freedom. As well as the idea that you yourself can create the environment you live in.







These are two pictures of Robert Owen, a man who took over the Utopianism town of Rappite in 1825. “Communitarian Spirit had been running high in U.S a Reform Spirit was evident.” Robert Owen led the group through times of failure and success and was thought of by many as the greatest most successful man in Utopianism communities.





John Humphrey Noyes is another established figure in Utopian history. He was head of the Oneidans (another town/community) and managed to maintain a





This is a picture of an ideal Utopian society. They weren’t at all this, extravagant and lush. However this does seem to capture the image very well






Same as abouve, this is not at all how they really looked. This is someones idea of a perfect society which was what utopianism strived for. In many ways this looks just like one of their communities, you just have to look deeper and see the two ideas conected, not the image it's self





Brook Farm, a famous nineteenth-century New England utopian community, was founded by Unitarian minister George Ripleyas he says the "city of God, anew." From its founding in 1841 until it went bankrupt in 1847, Brook Farm influenced many of the social reform movements in it's time: abolitionism, associationalism, the workingmen's movement, and the women's rights movement.