<p>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 dissension, and protects the members against the outside world. Features: * Hutterites' core social and personal values - nonaggression, selflessness and humility - are a challenge to the central North American mainstream values of achivevement, exploitation and aggression. * Hutterite education of their young, a primary concern of all Hutterite colonies, is an example of how successful education maintains community. * The Hutterites have lived with prejudice since their beginnings four and one half centuries ago, and young Hutterite men who refused military service in North America were persecuted inhumanely as recently as World War I. * John Hostetler, of Old Order Amish parents and an internationally known expert on communal societies in the United States and Canada, was readily accepted by the closeknit Hutterite community, and Gertrude Huntington was accepted by the colony with which she and her family lived as they conformed to Hutterite norms.</p>

Hutterites in North America (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)

History

John A. Hostetler

Gertrude Enders Huntington

Americas

Thomson/Brooks/Cole

Amish Life

Herald Press (VA)

Amish Society

<p>Known by their peculiar garb and stubborn refusal to keep pace with the technological society surrounding them, the Old Order Amish form one of the most conspicuous folk groups in America. Prizing country ways and old customs, they drive buggies in preference to automobiles, avoid higher education, hold four-hour preaching services in their homes, and refuse to accept government subsidies. An absorbing account of a people who have said "no" to progress, AMISH SOCIETY has now been extensively revised and augmented with a new chapter on Amish schools and education.There have been other books about the Amish, but as Charles Loomis says in his Introduction: "For me this book tells THE Amish story." It remains the most inclusive treatment of the American Amish in the perspective of sociology and social anthropology. Born into an Amish family and reared as an Amishman until, as a youth, he left the group to obtain an education, John Hostetler writes about the Amish with unique authority and understanding. He brings to his subject not only the investigator's professional detachment, but also the deeper awareness engendered by his having been a member of the Amish community.The first part of the book examines the structures and strengths of Amish social institutions. It deals with the origins of the group as a sectarian movement, the Amish charter as a symbol of community self-fulfillment, and family life and personal relations from infancy to childhood. Professor Hostetler then turns to a study of the internal conflicts produced by social change and innovations such as the tractor, the telephone, and the automobile. In addition there are discussions of defection, Meidung (excommunication), health and medical behavior, and mental illness.</p>

Religion & Spirituality

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Amish Life [perfect] Hostetler, John A. [Jan 01, 1959] ...

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Herald Press

Mennonite Life

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Amish

Selected Hutterian Documents in Translation brings together several earlier communal disciplines of the Hutterian Brethren written during a time-span of more than a century, beginning with the first generation of the Hutterian movement (1542), and continuing into the late Ehrenpreis era (1654). The first section, Concerning the Upbringing of Children, holds special significance in that the unit forms a major section of a pedagogical codex compiled by Vorsteher Claus Braidl. Although the school problems during the 1540s through the 1570s were certainly difficult to solve, the approach of the whole Brotherhood in general, and the leadership in particular, suggests a fine balance struck in attempting to cope with perennial problems within the schools, highly innovative for their times. The beautiful catechism for children, lifted from a small pedagogical codex at Olomouc, CSSR, suggests the depth of the Hutterites concern for teaching the children who have not yet been baptized; they are still to be brought up in the fear of God and taught respect and appreciation for all of God s creation, but especially for the church-community (Gemeinde), which God established and which the Hutterites were faithfully continuing in their response to God as His people. The Taufreden (baptismal sermons) are unique among those extant in Hutterian literature in that they are the only known, full-length sermons which were not only written in the sixteenth century, but are taken from a sixteenth century codex (1599). The Regulation Concerning the Matching of the Young People for Marriage (1643), the Communal Discipline (1651), and the Barber-Surgeon Discipline (1654) represent a later period of Hutterian life.

Selected Hutterian Documents in Translation (1542-1654)

Leonard Gross

Peter Walpot

Elizabeth Bender

Claus Braidl

Peter Riedemann

Andreas Ehrenpreis

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