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Describe the significance of the Oneida Community. What were the reasons for its formation? What were the big ideas underlying the community, and how and why did it succeed or fail?

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Describe the significance of the Oneida Community.

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1. The Oneida community refers to the utopian commune founded by John Humphrey Noyes in Oneida, New York in 1848. For reasons yet unknown, the group came together under the religious conviction that Christ had already returned in the year 70 A.D., thus making it possible for the group to bring about the Millennial Kingdom described in Revelation themselves.

2. The group subscribed to an idea known as Perfectionism, or the belief that it was possible to be perfect ...

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