Religious communism: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Before it became associated with atheism, communist philosophy was mainly a religious idea. Religious communists throughout history have been advocators of communal living and the whole or partial rejection of individual property. In this category can be included many orders of monks and nuns of such religions as Christianity, Taoism, Jainism, Hinduism and Buddhism.

The commune is established as an attempt at creating a perfect society. These groups were satirised in Thomas More's Utopia (circa 1516).

See also Gerrard Winstanley's Digger movement in England in the year 1649 which was organised along lines resembling the later Kibbutz movement in Israel.