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The Communal Studies Association is pleased to partner with the Fellowship for Intentional Community for its Fall 2017 issue of Communities. For decades the two organizations have shared objectives, meetings, and members. The CSA, founded in 1975, and the FIC, founded in the 1940s and reorganized in the mid 1980s, also maintain cooperative ties with mutually kindred organizations in the causes of communal studies and communal living. In an unforgettable spirit of unity, members of the boards of directors of the CSA, FIC, International Communal Studies Association based in Israel, and Center for Communal Studies at the University of Southern Indiana met as one body in 1993. We sat together in a symbolic circle in the venerable Harmonist cooper shop in historic New Harmony, Indiana where our organizations were co-sponsoring a Communal Studies Conference.
It is in this same spirit of cooperation and support that the CSA and its members, some of whom have written articles for this Fall 2017 issue, are joining with the FIC to insure that Communities remains the standard of excellence in documenting the voluntary communal laboratories which offer the world experimental evidence of hopeful solutions to pressing global problems. The CSA's journal Communal Societies and the FIC's Communities are parallel publications helping make the world aware of the vital lessons to be learned from communal groups past...