Timothy Miller

Timothy Miller is a Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Kansas. He studies new religious movements in the United States, with a special focus on groups in the past and present that practice communal living. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies and has been teaching at Kansas since 1973. His research is based in large part in field work, and he has visited many of the communities and historic communal sites covered in this work. Among his books in communal studies are American Communes, 1860-1960: A Bibliography, The Quest for Utopia in Twentieth-Century America, The 60s Communes, and the edited volume America's Alternative Religions. Another edited volume, Spiritual and Visionary Communities: Out to Save the World, will appear in 2013.