Cohousing-L Mailing List: Religious Conservatives in Cohousing?

[Craig Ragland (craigragland]

Hi Randa,

Lets morph it again!

In talking with identified leaders of the "intentional community movement,"
I've heard that there are more religious intentional communities than any
other "type" of intentional community. They go on to say that many religious
intentional communities do not identify as being an intentional community -
they are, rather, members of "religious communities."

>From my reading, I understand that many religious intentional communities
are VERY conservative. Part of why they are in community is to better
support their religious beliefs by living apart from the mainstream.

I've had little direct experience with members of residential religious
communities - although I just exchanged emails with members of a Jewish
group who are considering use of the cohousing model. The latest article in
Cohousing Magazine is entitled "Is religious cohousing possible?"

http://www.cohousing.org/cm/article/religion

How would you answer that question?

Craig

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:03 PM, R.N. Johnson <cohoranda [at] yahoo.com> wrote:

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> I think community is perceived as "liberal"  in much the same way that
> religion is often assumed to be "conservative".  The reality is more
> complex.
> Randa Johnson
> New Brighton Cohousing
> Aptos,CA
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