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I think that really depends on how you define religious and commune. There are lots of informal communes (hippy or otherwise) in the 5-20 person range all over the United States that have nothing to do with religion. More than enough people for a small homestead that shops mostly at a supermarket, but not nearly enough to have a few dozen men to spare to put up a barn which is kind of the bare minimum for sustenance communes like the Amish.

There's also a century of history of large kibbutzim in Israel that are somewhat religious but fundamentally organized around agriculture or industry.




Twin Oaks in Virginia has been going for over half a century, and other such places exist all over the US.

Israel has religious and secular kibbutzim as well.

Some hippy communes failed, or just decided to break up, but religious communes fail as well.




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