Word: communalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swedish town of Falun shelters a colony of Jewish refugees from German Europe. Its members live a partly communal life. By day they work as lumberjacks, toymakers, woodturners, cooks, housekeepers. In the evenings they gather for discussion and study; the subjects range from politics to dress designing...
...development now includes the original farmhouse, 30 cows (Father Urbain owns 15), a shrine on every farm. Later there will be a communal barn for cows which will graze on a communal pasture. But Father Urbain does not consider that collectivism: "It's the very opposite of that. It will make the people individualists, keep them from having to sit in the city and push buttons...
Legally the Cathedral Church of St. Michael will belong to the Church of England. But, as "The People's Cathedral," it will belong to everyone. It will have a communal center (for meetings, discussions) open to all people, a Chapel of Unity to be used by both Anglicans and Non-Conformists. Bishop Gorton hopes that this new interdenominational emphasis will attract some of the 80% of Coventry's 167,000 citizens who go to no church...
Some 200,000 Nagas live in an area of about 4,000 sq. mi. They live a communal existence, share food and work (although males usually retire at the age of eight and thereafter devote themselves to mastering and using the spear, crossbow and dah, a wicked knife). They are capable though casual farmers. Some raise pigs for trade, but for eating they prefer the dog, which is bred for the Naga table...
...Communal problems are exaggerated for purposes of divide-and-rule and do not take into account that "the great majority of the Indian Moslems are descendants of converts from Hinduism"; and that despite outside interference there have been widespread instances of Hindu-Moslem cooperation...