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The article focuses on the significance of utopias. The word utopia literally means "nowhere" but has come to be applied to any fictional or actual community based on social and political idealism. Although utopias and utopianism are associated with modern Western political literature and social movements, they exist in many cultures throughout world history and might be typically characterized as literary, philosophical, or historical. Theorizing about the ideal human community has an ancient and diverse ancestry. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam share common traditions relating to an ideal social order. The Muslim Quran also describes an ideal social order uniting people of faith, as well as a future paradise for the just and virtuous. During the European Renaissance, many writers examined the conditions and institutions that would produce an ideal society. Actual communities based on the principles spelled out in the literary or philosophical utopian traditions have often been attempted. Although the dominant utopian ideologies of the twentieth century were secular, the twenty-first century is likely to witness more frequent attempts to establish utopian theocracies founded on religious principles. |
