@article{Hoehnle2023,
       author = "Hoehnle, Peter",
       title =  {{Places to Pray: A Survey of Inspirationist Meeting Houses}},
       howpublished = "\url{https://ir.hamilton.edu/do/9ed76706-6223-4fce-a01c-cb6eb788aead}",
       publisher = {Richard W. Couper Press and Hamilton College Library Special Collections},
       journal = {American Communal Societies Quarterly},
       year = 2023,
       month = oct,
       volumen = {17},
       number = {4},
       pages = {246--267},
}

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October 2023

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2026-10-01

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Various "plain” religious groups have used the term "meeting house” to refer to their worship spaces for centuries. These groups, including the Quakers (Religious Society of Friends), Shakers, Harmonists, and others, adopted forms of worship that were intentionally in contrast with mainstream Christian religious systems. This study examines the development of the Versammlungssaal (meeting house) and related worship structures in the Community of True Inspiration, better known today as the Amana Society after its later incarnation as one of the longest-lived and most successful communal societies in the United States (1842-1932). The Inspirationists

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Source Title

American Communal Societies Quarterly

ISSN

1939-473X

Volume

17

Issue

4

First Page

246

Last Page

267

Publisher

Richard W. Couper Press

Hamilton College Library Special Collections

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