The Hutterites In North America

Author : Rod Janzen
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801899257
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hutterites in North America written by Rod Janzen and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2010-07-18 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the longest-lived communal societies in North America, the Hutterites have developed multifaceted communitarian perspectives on everything from conflict resolution and decision-making practices to standards of living and care for the elderly. This compellingly written book offers a glimpse into the complex and varied lives of the nearly 500 North American Hutterite communities. North American Hutterites today number around 50,000 and have common roots with and beliefs akin to the Amish and other Old Order Christians. This historical analysis and anthropological investigation draws on existing research, primary sources, and over 25 years of the authors' interaction with Hutterite communities to recount the group's physical and spiritual journey from its 16th-century founding in Eastern Europe and its near disappearance in Transylvania in the 1760s to its late 19th-century transplantation to North America and into the modern era. It explains how the Hutterites found creative ways to manage social and economic changes over more than five centuries while holding to the principles and cultural values embedded in their faith. Religious scholars, anthropologists, and historians of America and the Anabaptist faiths will find this objective-yet-appreciative account of the Hutterites' distinct North American culture to be a valuable and fascinating study both of the religion and of a viable alternative to modern-day capitalism.

Author : John Andrew Hostetler
Publisher : Harcourt College Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780155029156
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hutterites in North America written by John Andrew Hostetler and published by Harcourt College Pub. This book was released on 1996 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This case study in cultural anthropology focuses on the day-to-day living patterns of the Hutterites, a German-dialect-speaking Christian sect whose members live communally in the Great Plains of the United States and Canada. The authors describe the Hutterite belief system and how it minimizes aggression and dissention, and protects the members against the outside world.

Author : Simon M. Evans
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496228332
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Geography of the Hutterites in North America written by Simon M. Evans and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Geography of the Hutterites in North America explores the geographical diffusion of the Hutterite colonies from the “bridgehead” of Dakota Territory in 1874 to the present distribution across North America. Looking further than just maps of location, this book analyzes the relationship between parent and daughter colonies as the Hutterite population continues to grow and examines the role of cultural and demographic forces in determining the diffusion process. Throughout this geographical analysis, Simon M. Evans pays due attention to the Hutterites’ contribution to the cultural landscape of the Canadian Prairies and the American Great Plains, as well as the interactions that the Hutterites have with the land, including their agricultural success. With over forty years of research and personal interactions with more than a hundred Hutterite colonies, Evans offers a unique insight into the significant role that the Hutterites have in North America, both currently and historically. This study goes beyond the history, life, and culture of this communal brotherhood to present a new geographical analysis that reports on current and ongoing research within the field. The first narrative to be published regarding Hutterites in nearly a decade, A Geography of the Hutterites in North America is a valuable resource for scholars and students alike.

Author : Werner O. Packull
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801862564
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hutterite Beginnings written by Werner O. Packull and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1999-09-30 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detatailed and well written account of this group of Anabaptists. The oldest and largest communal society in North America, the Hutterites—Anabaptists of German origin, like the Amish, Mennonites, and Brethren—have long been the subject of scholarly study and popular curiosity. Werner Packull tells the comprehensive story of the Hutterite beginnings in their original homelands—particularly in Tyrol and Moravia—and discovers important relationships among early Anabaptist sects.

Author : Mary-Ann Kirkby
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 1418560324
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Am Hutterite written by Mary-Ann Kirkby and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Your mother and father are running away," said a voice piercing the warm air. I froze and turned toward home. To a Hutterite, nothing is more shameful than that word, running away, Weglaufen...” In 1969, Ann-Marie’s parents did the unthinkable. They left a Hutterite colony in Canada with seven children, and little else, to start a new life. Overnight, the family was thrust into a society they did not understand and which knew little of their unique culture. The transition was overwhelming. Desperate to be accepted, ten-year-old Ann-Marie was forced to deny her heritage in order to fit in with her peers. I Am Hutterite chronicles her quest to reinvent herself as she comes to terms with the painful circumstances that led her family to leave community life. Rich with memorable characters and vivid descriptions, this ground-breaking narrative shines a light on intolerance, illuminating the simple truth that beneath every human exterior beats a heart longing for understanding and acceptance. “A superb memoir . . . this has the makings of a prairie classic.” --AWARD JURY, SASK BOOK AWARDS “Honest, strong, clear, direct, it opens the door on what has been for so many of us a completely closed world.” --WINNIPEG FREE PRESS

Author : Rod Janzen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1606081349
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paul Tschetter written by Rod Janzen and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-05-04 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Tschetter Was a Leading Figure In Late Nineteenth-Century Hutterite history, the "Hutterite Joshua," who convinced 1,250 Hutterites to leave Russia in the 1870s and resettle in Dakota Territory. Tschetter's life elucidates the way that an immigrant community fought for survival in a North American environment that stressed assimilation to radically different political, economic, cultural, and religious values. Janzen provides an in-depth narrative and analysis of Tschetter's influence based on diaries, sermons, hymns, interviews, and other primary materials. "I welcome this long-overdue book on Paul Tschetter. Rod Janzen is to be commended for continuing to preserve the Prairieleut heritage. Paul Tschetter provided much needed leadership in a very transitional period of Hutterian history."---Tony Waldner, Forest River Hutterite Colony "Much has been written on the communal Hutterites, but Rod Janzen is one of the very few scholars who have tracked the history of the more numerous Prairieleut, or noncommunal Hutterites. Spotlighting the pivotal Prairieleut leader Paul Tschetter is a giant step forward in preserving the history of the `other' Hutterites."---Timothy Miller, University of Kansas "Janzen writes the way history ought to be written ... The author builds upon, and then goes far beyond all previous studies---in content, and especially in his solid interpretation and historical analysis where socioreligious perspectives are not shortchanged."---Leonard Gross, author of the Golden Years of the Hutterites "The Tschetter family is grateful for Dr. Janzen's thoughtful biography."---Wesley G. Tschetter, South Dakota State University "Paul Tschetter's biography---so well-written by the careful and detailed research of Rod Janzen---preserves as a lasting tribute the story of a wonderful and many-sided man and the remarkable community of the Prairieleut people in the context of a forever vanished society and era."---Max Stanton, Brigham Young University, Hawaii

Author : Ian Kleinsasser
Publisher : Hutterian Brethren Book Centre
ISBN 13 : 1927913950
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blessings and Burdens: 100 Years of Hutterites in Manitoba written by Ian Kleinsasser and published by Hutterian Brethren Book Centre. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On June 1 and 8, 2019, Hutterites in Manitoba made history. For the first time since settling in the Canadian Prairie Provinces, a Hutterite with an academic background in history interpreted and presented part of the Hutterite story in front of a public audience. The inaugural Jacob D. Maendel Lectures Series was presented by Ian Kleinsasser in three one-hour lectures at Trinity United Church in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. [From the forward.]

Author : John A. Hostetler
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801856396
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hutterite Society written by John A. Hostetler and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1997-06-23 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: and their strategies for survival.-- "American Historical Review"

Author : John Andrew Hostetler
Publisher : New York ; Toronto : Holt, Rinehart and Winston
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4J/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hutterites in North America written by John Andrew Hostetler and published by New York ; Toronto : Holt, Rinehart and Winston. This book was released on 1980 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donald B. Kraybill
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801870897
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Backroad to Heaven written by Donald B. Kraybill and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002-09-30 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first comparative study sketches the differences as well as the common threads that bind these groups together.