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A Yankee Saint: John Humphrey Noyes And The Oneida Community
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Considered to be one of the definitive biographies on John Humphrey Noyes, an American preacher, radical religious philosopher, and utopian socialist who founded the Putney, Oneida, and Wallingford Communities and is credited for having coined the term “free love”.
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Robert Allerton Parker, a journalist, critic and writer, came to New York from California to try his hand at playwriting and became part of the radical Greenwich Village circle. In addition to serving as a drama critic and contributor to periodicals such as Critical Opinion and The Arts, Parker became interested in popular religious movements and was the author of several biographies including A Yankee Saint (1935), a study of John Humphrey Noyes, and The Incredible Messiah (1937) which examined the Father Divine movement.
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