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Hutterite Society
John A. Hostetler
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Description for Hutterite Society
Paperback. and their strategies for survival. Num Pages: 424 pages, 42, 42 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; HRCC99; HRCX8; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 706.
Written to mark the centennial of the Hutterites' arrival in North America, John Hostetler's acclaimed study traces their history from the founding of their society over four centuries ago to the early 1970s, and analyzes their social and cultural organization, the difficulties of communal living. and their strategies for survival.
Written to mark the centennial of the Hutterites' arrival in North America, John Hostetler's acclaimed study traces their history from the founding of their society over four centuries ago to the early 1970s, and analyzes their social and cultural organization, the difficulties of communal living. and their strategies for survival.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801856396
SKU
V9780801856396
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99-24
About John A. Hostetler
John A. Hostetler (1918-2001) is author of the best-selling Amish Society and the widely acclaimed Hutterite Society, both available from Johns Hopkins. Raised in the Amish faith, he was founding director of the Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, and a former professor of anthropology and sociology at Temple University.
Reviews for Hutterite Society
A must reading for anyone doing serious study of the Hutterites... An excellent history of the Hutterites... [which] will serve for many years to come as a good benchmark for an analysis of change in the way of life of this extraordinary group. Mennonite Life A fine study of the oldest Western communal society, originally Moravian, who live now on ... Read more