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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Hostetler, John Andrew, 1918-2001. Hutterite society. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press [1974] (OCoLC)568261267 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
John Andrew Hostetler |
| ISBN: | 0801815843 9780801815843 |
| OCLC Number: | 1031106 |
| Description: | xvi, 403 p.: illus. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The birth of Hutterite Society -- The golden period in Moravia -- the decline and fate of the Eastern European communities -- Life in Russia -- Adaptation to the North American environment -- World view and language -- Colony organization -- Subsistence and economic patterns -- Schooling and preparation for life -- Adult life patterns -- The social problems of communal living -- The strategy of Hutterite survival. |
| Responsibility: | John A. Hostetler. |
Table of Contents:
Preface -- Introduction -- Anabaptism -- South German and Austrian Anabaptists -- Fragmentation and purification -- Community of goods -- Jakob Hutter emerges as leader -- Persecution and dispersion -- Leadership after Hutter -- Summary of the founding period -- The social structure of the Bruderhof -- Early economic organization -- The ceramic industry -- Education and training -- Medical practices -- Missionary travels and literary activity -- The disaster in Moravia -- Life in northern Hungary -- Life in Transylvania -- The Carinthians revitalize the movement -- Wallachia, southern Romania -- Identity destruction and assimilation -- The move to Vishenka -- Rescuing kinsmen and apostates -- Internal problems -- On crown lands in Radichev -- Among the Mennonites in Molotschna -- The renewal of communal living -- The exodus from Russia to America -- The century in Russia -- The early Dakota years -- The dispersion during World War I -- Land restrictions -- World view -- Language -- Spatial arrangements -- Time patterns -- Authority patterns -- Community integration -- Ritual integration -- Hutterite identity symbols -- Community resources -- Work patterns -- Patterns of colony expansion -- The distribution of goods -- Consumptive austerity -- The individual and property -- Self-surrender -- The family and socialization -- Age patterns and formal schooling -- House children -- Kindergarten children -- School children -- Young people -- Adolescent personality patterns -- Admission to adulthood -- Marriage -- Kinship and naming patterns -- Adult life -- The elderly -- Death -- Hostility -- Fraternization with outsiders -- Compulsory state education -- Mental health and medical care -- Affluence -- Colony failure -- Apostasy and defection -- Legal predicaments -- Encounters with other communal groups -- Uncompromising beliefs -- Comprehensive socialization -- Reconciliation of delinquents -- Biological vitality -- The management of innovation -- Appendix 1: Hutterite historiography -- Appendix 2: chronology of Hutterite history -- Appendix 3: Hutterite place names in Eastern Europe by language and country -- Appendix 4: the Hutterite school discipline of 1568 -- Appendix 5: table rules -- Appendix 6: rites of passage from childhood to adulthood -- Appendix 7: baptismal vow -- Appendix 8: engagement and marriage vows -- Appendix 9: ordination vow -- Appendix 10: agreement between a divisional school board and a colony, Alberta -- Appendix 11: holidays -- Appendix 12: the liturgical calendar -- Appendix 13: colony menu for one week -- Appendix 14: last words of Michael waldner, 1823-89 -- Appendix 15: list of Hutterite colonies in North America -- Appendix 16: branching of Hutterite colonies (Dariusleut, Lehrerleut, and Schmiedeleut) in North America, 1874-1974 -- Selected bibliography -- Index .
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