The Camphill movement is one of the largest and most dynamic networks of intentional communities in the world today. Founded in 1939 by followers of the spiritual teacher Rudolf Steiner, Camphill includes more than one hundred communities on five continents, each offering a rich economic and cultural life to people with and without intellectual disabilities.
Camphill is also a vivid illustration of John Humphrey Noyes's observation that successful communities must "combine and alternate thinking with experiment and practice, and constantly submit all theories . . . to the consuming ordeal of practical verification."
In this presentation, Dan McKanan will explore the ongoing experimentation and constant change that have enabled Camphill to thrive for nearly a century.
About the Speaker
Dan McKanan is the Emerson Senior Lecturer at Harvard Divinity School, where he has taught since 2008.
He is the author of Camphill and the Future: Spirituality and Disability in an Evolving Communal Movement and five other books on religious socialism, pacifism, environmentalism, abolitionism, and the Catholic Worker and Fourierist communal movements.
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The Communities In Conversation Series - Sponsored by the Central New York Library Resources Council
This program offers both in-person and virtual (Zoom) attendance options. Regardless of your choice, all registered participants will receive the Zoom link. Additionally, a recording of the event will be emailed to everyone a few days after the program.
All proceeds support the preservation of the Oneida Community Mansion House and its educational programs.
