New Jerusalem was a utopian religious community founded in the late nineteenth century in the Confederation of Manitoba by Waldo Turner, a North American religious and social reformer. According to Sobel, Turner's adherents, the Turnerites, traveled to Manitoba from their homes in the C.N.A., Europe, and South America to form "The New City of God" in the wilderness, a utopian society based on mutual respect, sharing, and free love. By 1903, New Jerusalem had grown to the point where a local publishing firm was able to publish Turner's manifesto, Utopia Across the River.
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