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- catalog abstract ""On the Backroad to Heaven is a unique guide to the strange world of Old Order Anabaptist groups. Focusing on four Old Order communities - the Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish, and Brethren - Donald B. Kraybill and Carl F. Bowman provide a fascinating overview of their culture, growth, and unique 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11979201.
- catalog contributor b11979202.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""On the Backroad to Heaven is a unique guide to the strange world of Old Order Anabaptist groups. Focusing on four Old Order communities - the Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish, and Brethren - Donald B. Kraybill and Carl F. Bowman provide a fascinating overview of their culture, growth, and unique 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-322) and index.".
- catalog description "The old road to heaven -- The Hutterites -- The Mennonites -- The Amish -- The Brethren -- Common convictions -- Four roads to heaven -- Preserving a pilgrim people -- Ironies of a postmodern journey.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 330 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0801865654 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Center books in Anabaptist studies".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog subject "289.7/3 21".
- catalog subject "Amish.".
- catalog subject "BX8129.H8 K73 2001".
- catalog subject "Hutterian Brethren.".
- catalog subject "Hutterite Brethren.".
- catalog subject "Old German Baptist Brethren.".
- catalog subject "Old Order Mennonites.".
- catalog subject "Plain People Comparative studies.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The old road to heaven -- The Hutterites -- The Mennonites -- The Amish -- The Brethren -- Common convictions -- Four roads to heaven -- Preserving a pilgrim people -- Ironies of a postmodern journey.".
- catalog title "On the backroad to heaven : Old Order Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish, and Brethren / Donald B. Kraybill, Carl F. Bowman.".
- catalog type "text".