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== Variety == The purposes of intentional communities vary and may be political, [[Spirituality|spiritual]], economic, or environmental.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Strongin |first1=Fay |title=Imagining the Intentional Community Counterpublic |date=2010 |publisher=DSpace |edition=Dissertation |url=https://scholarship.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/bitstream/handle/10066/5440/2010StronginF.pdf?sequence=1 |access-date=20 September 2021}}</ref> In addition to spiritual communities, [[Secularity|secular]] communities also exist.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Caplan |first1=Mariana |title=Spiritual Communities: There's More to Them Than Meets the Third Eye |url=https://www.ic.org/wiki/spiritual-communities-theres-meets-third-eye/ |website=[[Foundation for Intentional Community|Fellowship for Intentional Community]] |access-date=March 16, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170702215255/http://www.ic.org/wiki/spiritual-communities-theres-meets-third-eye/ |archive-date=July 2, 2017 |url-status=dead}}</ref> One common practice, particularly in spiritual communities, is [[communal meal]]s.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/jul/25/inside-the-bruderhof-review-is-this-a-religious-stirring-i-feel |title=Inside the Bruderhof review β is this a religious stirring I feel?|last=Mangan |first=Lucy |author-link=Lucy Mangan |date=2019-07-25|work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=2019-07-31 |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> [[egalitarianism|Egalitarian]] values can be combined with other values.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.dancingrabbit.org/social-change/social-change/dr-culture/feminism-empowerment-and-justice/ |title=Feminism, Empowerment, and Justice {{!}} Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage |language=en-US |access-date=2019-07-31 |archive-date=2021-04-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410182020/https://www.dancingrabbit.org/social-change/social-change/dr-culture/feminism-empowerment-and-justice/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Benjamin Zablocki]] categorized communities this way:<ref>{{cite book |last=Zablocki |first=Benjamin |author-link=Benjamin Zablocki |title=The Joyful Community: An Account of the Bruderhof: A Communal Movement Now in Its Third Generation |year=1971 |publisher=[[University of Chicago Press]] |location=Chicago |isbn=0-226-97749-8 |ref=Zablocki}}</ref> * Academic communities (see [[Learning community#Living-Learning Communities|Living-Learning Communities]]) * Alternative-family communities (see [[Tenacious Unicorn Ranch]]) * [[Coliving]] communities * [[Cooperative]] communities * [[Countercultural]] communities * [[Egalitarian communities]] * [[Experimental]] communities * [[Political]] communities * [[Psychological]] communities (based on [[mystical]] or [[gestalt psychology|gestalt]] principles) * [[Therapeutic community|Rehabilitational communities]] (see [[Synanon]]) * [[Monastery|Religious communities]] * [[Spirituality|Spiritual]] communities
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