On the Backroad to Heaven: Old Order Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish, and Brethren - Couverture souple

Kraybill, Donald B.

 
9780801870897: On the Backroad to Heaven: Old Order Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish, and Brethren
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0801870895 ISBN 13 : 9780801870897
Editeur : JHUP, 2002

Synopsis

On the Backroad to Heaven is a unique guide to the world of Old Order Anabaptist groups. Focusing on four Old Order communities—the Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish, and Brethren—Donald B. Kraybill and Carl Desportes Bowman provide a fascinating overview of their culture, growth, and distinctive way of life. Following a general introduction to Old Order culture, they show how each group uses a different strategy to create and sustain its identity. The Hutterites, for example, keep themselves geographically segregated from the larger society, whereas the Brethren interact more freely with it. The Amish and Mennonites are more alike in how they engage the outside world, adopting a complex but flexible strategy of compromise that produces an evolving canon of social and religious rules. This first comparative study sketches the differences as well as the common threads that bind these groups together.

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À propos de l?auteur

Donald B. Kraybill is Distinguished College Professor and Senior Fellow in the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania. Widely recognized for his work on Anabaptist groups, he has authored and edited many books, including The Riddle of Amish Culture and The Amish and the State, both available from Johns Hopkins. Carl Desportes Bowman is a professor and chair of the Department of Sociology at Bridgewater College. Nationally recognized for his scholarship and publications on Brethren groups, he is the author of Brethren Society: The Cultural Transformation of a Peculiar People, also available from Johns Hopkins.

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Éditeur
JHUP
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0801870895
ISBN 13 
9780801870897
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
352
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780801865657: On the Backroad to Heaven: Old Order Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish, and Brethren

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0801865654 ISBN 13 :  9780801865657
Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001
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