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Commonwealth v. Twitchell
In over 50 cases between 1887 and the early 1990s, prosecutors charged Christian Scientists after adults and children died of treatable illnesses without medical care. A 1998 study in Pediatrics exami ...
2015-2-16 21:38
Massachusetts Metaphysical College
On August 23, 1879, 26 members of the Christian Scientists' Association were granted a charter to form the Church of Christ (Scientist). Services were held in people's homes in Lynn and later in Hawth ...
2015-2-16 21:37
Christian Science
Several periods of Protestant Christian revival nurtured a proliferation of new religious movements in the United States. In the latter half of the 19th century these included what came to be known as ...
2015-2-16 21:36
Professional association
In countries where the law entitles defendants to a jury by their peers, the general public may not be considered sufficiently knowledgeable in a field of practice to act as a peer in some legal cases ...
2015-2-14 14:13
Land trust
Land trusts have been around at least since Roman times but their clearest history is from the time of King Henry VIII in England. At that time, people used land trusts to hide their ownership of land ...
2015-2-14 14:09
Kibbutz
The kibbutzim were founded by members of the Bilu movement who emigrated to Palestine. Like the members of the First Aliyah who came before them, most members of the Second Aliya wanted to be farmers. ...
2015-2-14 14:07
Housing cooperative
As a legal entity, a co-op can contract with other companies or hire individuals to provide it with services, such as a maintenance contractor or a building manager. It can also hire employees, such a ...
2015-2-14 14:05
Ecovillage
In 1991, Robert Gilman set out a definition of an ecovillage that became standard. Gilman defined an ecovillage as a:"human-scale full-featured settlement in which human activities are harmlessly inte ...
2015-2-14 14:04
Commune
Benjamin Zablocki categorized communities this way:Alternative-family communitiesCooperative communitiesCountercultural communitiesEgalitarian communitiesPolitical communitiesPsychological communities ...
2015-2-14 14:02
Cohousing
The modern theory of cohousing originated in Denmark in the 1960s among groups of families who were dissatisfied with existing housing and communities that they felt did not meet their needs. Bodil Gr ...
2015-2-14 13:59
Ashram
The word ashram (also as ashrama) comes from the Sanskrit root srama which means "giving the meaning of making an effort towards liberation" (moksha).OverviewAn ashram would traditionally, but not nec ...
2015-2-14 13:57
Amish
The Amish Mennonite movement descends from the 16th century fellowship known as the Swiss Brethren. The Swiss Brethren were Anabaptists, and are often viewed as having been a part of the Radical Refor ...
2015-2-14 13:56
Retirement home
The number of retirement homes has been increasing in the United States, from almost 11,000 in 2003 to 12,000 in 2010. The market size for retirement homes has had a much greater growth rate, from $13 ...
2015-2-14 13:55
Retirement community
The term Continuing Care Retirement Community is the primary term for a major part of the retirement scene, in books, magazines, accreditation and legislation, in parallel with the categorization just ...
2015-2-14 13:53
Virtual community
The traditional definition of a community is of geographically circumscribed entity (neighborhoods, villages, etc.). Virtual communities are usually dispersed geographically, and therefore are not com ...
2015-2-14 13:49

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