Spencer Klaw is a journalist and writer, and this Penguin Books volume is his history of the Oneida Community, the nineteenth century American utopian religious commune known for its practice of complex marriage, from its founding to its eventual dissolution. Its strength is thorough research into the community's own extensive internal records, which the Oneida Community itself kept in unusual detail, letting Klaw reconstruct daily life and belief within the group with real specificity. Its limit is that it is a general narrative history aimed at a broad readership rather than an academic monograph with full scholarly apparatus, so a claim needing precise sourcing to a specific primary document is better traced through Klaw's own citations back to that original record.
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AuthorSpencer Klaw
PublisherPenguin Books
Publication Year1993
URLhttps://archive.org/details/withoutsinlifede0000spen
Source TypeScholarly work
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Spencer Klaw's history of the Oneida Community, the nineteenth century American utopian and complex-marriage religious commune, from its founding to its dissolution. NotesHistory of the Oneida Community, the nineteenth century American utopian and complex-marriage religious commune, from its founding to its dissolution.
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This source backs 47 claims across the atlas. As facts: 31 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds, 3 connected, 1 critiqued Here. Plus 10 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Articles, 16 claims: 8 well-attested, 3 connected, 5 general references.
- Denominations, 16 claims: 15 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Sources, 9 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Doctrines, 4 claims: 1 holds, 1 critiqued Here, 2 general references.
- Beliefs & Restrictions, 1 claims: 1 general references.
- States & Territories, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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