Question

Discuss two of the religious and secular utopian communities of the 1830s and 1840s that arose from the reform movements of the early 19th century.
Your response should be at least 5 to 8 sentences and include two specific examples (the names of people, places, things, events, ideas, or dates).

Answer 1

We discuss below some of the religious and secular utopian communities of the 1830s and 1840s that arose from the reform movements of the early 19th century.

What is a utopian community?

A utopian community gives the inhabitants the idea that their place, state, or condition is ideally perfect in respect of politics, laws, customs, and conditions.

Some of the two notable utopian communities of the 1830s and 1840s were the Transcendentalists of Brook Farm in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, and the Mormons.  

The Brook Farm Institute of Agriculture and Education, founded by George Ripley, Charles A Dana, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, aimed to combine the thinker and the worker by giving greater spiritual meaning to menial labor, but lasted between 1841 and 1846.

Another notable utopian community was the Mormons founded by Joseph Smith in 1827 in Western New York.  Mormonism gave birth to the religious tradition and theology of the Latter Day Saint movement, with a strong belief that human beings are spirit children of God.

Thus, we have discussed some of the religious and secular utopian communities of the 1830s and 1840s that arose from the reform movements of the early 19th century.

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