• Eric or Erik Jansson or Janson (19 December 1808 – 13 May 1850) was the leader of a Swedish Radical Pietist sect that emigrated to the United States in...
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    1000 colonists died from disease on the way to Bishop Hill (named for Eric Jansson's birthplace, Biskopskulla ), while others became disillusioned and stayed...
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    Berglund, a farmer who became a follower of the charismatic revivalist Eric Jansson, whose teachings brought him and his followers into a fierce conflict...
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  • Bishop Hill Colony, Bishop Hill, Illinois, founded by Swedish pietist Eric Jansson Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, Rutledge, Missouri Dreamtime Village, West...
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  • Universal Inquiry and Reform community. Bishop Hill Colony Illinois Eric Jansson 1846 1862 A Swedish Pietist religious commune. Spring Farm Colony Wisconsin...
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    where they lived much like the Ephrata people, for nearly a century. Eric Jansson was another Swedish Radical Pietist who formed a separatist community...
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    land. The largest contingent of such dissenters, 1,500 followers of Eric Jansson, left in the late 1840s and founded a community in Bishop Hill, Illinois...
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  • refer to: John Root (19th c.), Swedish immigrant to Louisiana who killed Eric Jansson (died 1850) John Root (19th–20th c.), U.S. baseball player who played...
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    Jansson's temptation (Swedish: Janssons frestelse (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈjɑ̌ːnsɔns ˈfrɛ̂sːtɛlsɛ])) is a traditional Swedish casserole made of potatoes...
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  • evangelist, hymnwriter and founding member of the Evangelical Covenant Church Eric Jansson, Swedish-born, pietist leader Andrew Nelson, missionary, linguist and...
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