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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Example Sentences

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

From Salon

You know, that's where all these utopian religions were founded and things like the Oneida community with mixed marriages.

From Scientific American

He was also a former member of a New York utopian colony, the Oneida Community.

From Washington Post

From the outside, the Oneida Community looked idyllic.

From Washington Post

For a while, the Garfield administration reacted to Guiteau in the same way as the faculty at the University of Michigan and the religious members of the Oneida Community — first by politely tolerating him, and then by blowing him off.

From Salon