While most of the utopian and religious communes that sprang up in the 1960's have failed, Ananda has flourished.

These rituals, he wrote, led to greater cooperation in the religious communes, which helped them maintain their communal structure during economic hard times.

"Stone and the militia have connections to some kind of weird religious commune here," he said.

They also stress the differences with some of the religious communes that have also emerged in Russia.

It turns out she lives in a religious commune, similar to that of the Branch Davidians.

Shrevra is a closed religious commune and you have been brought here to serve the higher disciples and the masters.

When the water disappeared, so did the last major trace of a one-time, experimental, 19th-century religious commune called Oneida.

That was the year he left Fleetwood Mac to join a religious commune.

Prostitution and bars flourished - as did churches and religious communes.

The religious agricultural communes were replaced with state communes.