TIMOTHY MILLER
Professor
History of American Religions
Intentional Communities and Alternative Religions
Religion in American Society
Religion and Moral Decisions
New Religious Movements (Western & Non-Western)
History of Religion in Kansas
The Communitarian Tradition
Religious Movements and Social Change
Publications:
Books:
The 60s Communes: Hippies and Beyond, Syracuse University Press, 1999. 329 pp.
The Quest for Utopia in Twentieth-Century America (Vol. 1, 1900-1960), Syracuse University Press, 1998. 254 pp.
America's Alternative Religions, SUNY Press, 1995.
The Hippies and American Values, University of Tennessee Press, 1991. 181 pp.
American Communes, 1860-1960: A Bibliography, Garland Publishing Company, 1990. 583 pp.
Major Articles & Parts of Books
"The Farm" and "The Rappites." The Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World eds. Karen Christensen and David Levinson (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2003).
"The Historical Communal Roots of Ultraconservative Groups: Earlier American Communes That Have Helped Shape Today's Far Right," in The Cultic Milieu: Oppositional Subcultures in an Age of Globalization, ed. Jeffrey Kaplan and Helene Löow (Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira, 2002), pp. 75-109.
"Total Freedom of Conscience: What Happens When There Are No Rules At All?" published in cyberproceedings of the 2002 conference of CESNUR (Center for Studies on New Religions) at <http://www.cesnur.org/2002/slc/miller.htm>
"Controversial Christian Movements: History, Growth, and Outlook," in Derek H. Davis and Barry Hankins, eds., New Religious Movements and Religious Liberty in America (Waco, TX: J. M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies and Baylor University Press, 2002), pp. 1-19.
"The Sixties-Era Communes" in Peter Braunstein and Michael William Doyle, eds., Imagine Nation: American Cultural Radicalism of the 1960s and '70s (New York: Routledge, 2002), pp. 327-351.
"The Historic Roots of Sustainability in Communities," in Saskia Poldervaart, Harrie Jansen, and Beatrice Kesler, eds., Contemporary Utopian Struggles: Communities between Modernism and Postmodernism (Amsterdam: Aksant, 2001), pp. 225-235.
Presentations:
"Notes on the Prehistory of the Human Potential Movement: The Vedanta Society
and Gerald Heard's Trabuco College," presented at "On the Edge of
the Future: Locating Esalen in the Histories of American Religion, Psychology,
and Culture," invitational conference at the Esalen Institute; Big Sur,
CA (Apr 2, 2003).
"A Hard Time to be a Pacifist: American Intentional Communities in the World War II Era," Communal Studies Association, National Meeting; Oneida, NY (Sep 27, 2002).
"Out to Save the World: Why Communal Studies Matters for the Twenty-First Century" International Communal Studies Association, International Meeting; Belzig, Germany (Jun 26, 2001).
Grant:
National Endowment for the Humanities, 1994-96. Topic: "A History of American
Communes, 1965-1975."
Current Research:
History of Communes in the United States
History of Alternative Religions in the United States