Oneida Community

American  

noun

1. a society of religious perfectionists established by John Humphrey Noyes, in 1848 at Oneida, N.Y., on the theory that sin can be eliminated through social reform: dissolved and reorganized in 1881 as a joint-stock company.

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Oneida Community

You begin with John Humphrey Noyes, founder of the Oneida Community, a utopian religious group in the mid-19th century.

From Salon ● May 26, 2025

From the outside, the Oneida Community looked idyllic.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2023

Another religious utopian experiment, the Oneida Community, began with the teachings of John Humphrey Noyes, a Vermonter who had graduated from Dartmouth, Andover Theological Seminary, and Yale.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014

“We still do it the old-fashioned way,” said Paul E. Gebhardt, Oneida’s senior vice president of design, who is also the great-great-grandson of John Humphrey Noyes, the founder of the Oneida Community.

From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2012

Out of money, Charles borrowed from his father and his sister and futilely tried to sue the Oneida Community for money he said they owed him.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow