In the Company of Others : Making Community in the Modern World Book

	Foreword: I am because we are
	Acknowledgments
	Prologue: Waking Up to the Company of Others
Pt. 1	Seeking Community: The Need
1	The Wins of Our Fathers: Utopian Communities in Nineteenth Century America	6
2	The Fallacy of Rugged Individualism	12
3	Homo sapiens: The Community Animal	16
4	An Historical Native American Village	20
5	A Modern Village of Spiritual Seekers	28
Pt. 2	Making Community: The Task
6	Stages of Community Building	37
7	Skills for Living Together	46
8	The Leader as Servant	56
9	Money and Community Economics	65
10	The Economics of a Kibbutz	71
Pt. 3	Finding Community: The Satisfaction
11	Kinship and Friendship: The Flesh of Community	83
12	Service: The Soul of Community	89
13	Celebration: The Spirit of Community	93
14	Awareness: The Consciousness of Community	101
15	A Community of Awareness	105
Pt. 4	Living Community: A Wide Range of Choices
16	Intentional Communities	117
17	Ritual Men's Groups	124
18	The Corporation as Community	130
19	Collaborative Housing	138
20	Salons	143
21	Electronic Communities	149
22	The Castro: Building Community in the Face of AIDS	155
Pt. 5	The Dark Side of Community: Facing and Overcoming the Pitfalls
23	The Other: Community's Shadow	169
24	Domination and Submission: The Subjective Side of Power	175
25	The Cult: A Mirror of the Times	182
26	On Cults and Organizations	188
27	Jonestown: In the Valley of the Shadow of Death	191
Pt. 6	Tomorrow's Communities
28	Achieving a Community Way of Life	210
29	Ecocentric Sangha	214
30	The Place, the Region, and the Commons	217
31	A Future Community Today: The Open Network	238
32	A Future Community Tomorrow: Ecotopia	243
	Epilogue	251
	Contributors	257
	Resources	263
	Bibliography	269
	Notes	271
	Permissions and Copyrights	273