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Without Sin: The Life and Death of the Oneida Community

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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Citation

Author

Spencer Klaw

Publisher

Penguin Books

Publication Year

1993

URL

https://archive.org/details/withoutsinlifede0000spen

Source Type

Scholarly 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.

Notes

History of the Oneida Community, the nineteenth century American utopian and complex-marriage religious commune, from its founding to its dissolution.

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Oneida Community

This source names Oneida Community directly: "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..."

Source Without Sin: The Life and Death of the Oneida CommunitySpencer Klaw

Claims Backed By This Source (48 claims)

This source backs 48 claims across the atlas. As facts: 31 well-attested. As cited relationships: 3 holds, 3 connected, 1 critiqued Here. Plus 10 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.