Family Surrogates in Colonial America: The Moravian Experiment  

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Gollin, Gillian Lindt

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Marriage and the Family vol. 31 no. 04 (Nov. 1969), page 650.

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Meeting traditional family obligations detracts from intense involvement in communal affairs. Most utopian communities have tried, therefore, to abolish the family system and allocated the responsibility for child-rearing to an institution less likely to threaten the exclusive allegiance of their members. Manuscripts in the Archives of the Moravian Brethren in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, serve as sources for an analysis of one such experiment-that of the Moravian choir system. During the Colonial period, this system, which entailed a rigid stratification of the community according to age, sex, and marital status, came to take over all of the functions traditionally associated with the conjugal family. The growth and decline of the choir system, as a family surrogate, stem from changing patterns of interaction between Moravian religious ideas and specific economic, political, and social conditions of the community.

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