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Author: Yosef Kats Publisher: University of Regina Press ISBN: 0889772827 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 458
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The world's longest-lasting and most successful communal society, the Hutterites have a model of governance that has served them well for almost five hundred years. In the past the colony was an "ark," isolated from both the secular world and the host society. But today colonies face new challenges because of globalization and digital technologies and are losing much of their ability to exclude these influences from their lives. Based on extensive fieldwork with the Schmiedeleut branch of the Hutterites, the book includes the Conference Letters and Regulations, published for the first time in English translation, that provide invaluable insights into strategies for managing change.
Author: Yosef Kats Publisher: University of Regina Press ISBN: 0889772827 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 458
Book Description
The world's longest-lasting and most successful communal society, the Hutterites have a model of governance that has served them well for almost five hundred years. In the past the colony was an "ark," isolated from both the secular world and the host society. But today colonies face new challenges because of globalization and digital technologies and are losing much of their ability to exclude these influences from their lives. Based on extensive fieldwork with the Schmiedeleut branch of the Hutterites, the book includes the Conference Letters and Regulations, published for the first time in English translation, that provide invaluable insights into strategies for managing change.
Author: Raymond Murphy Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP ISBN: 0773577882 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 420
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Murphy explores whether technological development inadvertently constructed new vulnerabilities, thereby manufacturing a natural disaster. As the extreme weather in the ice storm may foreshadow what will occur with global warming, Leadership in Disaster also explores the politics, economics, ethics, and cultural predispositions involved in climate change, investigating how modern societies create both the risks they assume are acceptable and the burden of managing them. An innovative comparison with Amish communities, where the same extreme weather had trivial consequences, is instructive for avoiding future socio-economic catastrophes.
Author: Karen M. Johnson-Weiner Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 1501708139 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 366
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Tracing Amish settlement in New York from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner draws on more than thirty years of participant-observation, interviews, and archival research to introduce the Amish to their non-Amish neighbors. In the last decade, New York State has had the fastest-growing Amish population. This work highlights the diversity of Amish settlement in New York State and the contribution of New York's Amish to the state’s rich cultural heritage. The second edition of New York Amish updates settlement areas to acknowledge recently established communities and to demonstrate the impact of growth, schism, and migration on existing settlements. In addition, chapters treating external and internal challenges to Amish settlement and the challenges Amish settlement poses to neighboring non-Amish communities have been updated, and a new chapter looks to the future of New York’s Amish. All maps have been updated, and a new map showing all of New York’s Amish communities has been added.
Author: Rod Janzen Publisher: JHU Press ISBN: 0801899257 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 399
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One of the longest-lived communal societies in North America, the Hutterites have developed multifaceted communitarian perspectives on everything from conflict resolution and decision-making practices to standards of living and care for the elderly. This compellingly written book offers a glimpse into the complex and varied lives of the nearly 500 North American Hutterite communities. North American Hutterites today number around 50,000 and have common roots with and beliefs akin to the Amish and other Old Order Christians. This historical analysis and anthropological investigation draws on existing research, primary sources, and over 25 years of the authors' interaction with Hutterite communities to recount the group's physical and spiritual journey from its 16th-century founding in Eastern Europe and its near disappearance in Transylvania in the 1760s to its late 19th-century transplantation to North America and into the modern era. It explains how the Hutterites found creative ways to manage social and economic changes over more than five centuries while holding to the principles and cultural values embedded in their faith. Religious scholars, anthropologists, and historians of America and the Anabaptist faiths will find this objective-yet-appreciative account of the Hutterites' distinct North American culture to be a valuable and fascinating study both of the religion and of a viable alternative to modern-day capitalism.
Author: Susan Saxx Publisher: Susan Saxx ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 115
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TWO Delta North Team series with all your favorite characters...a third DNT series coming soon! He’s a soldier, bound by rules. She’s an artist, dying for freedom. Danica needs to get away from her life in the Big Apple. So when she visits her best friend Abby in the northern town of Jack’s Bay, she expects peace and quiet. But she gets anything but. She finds herself smack in the middle of a bunch of former Delta North soldiers. She’s good with all of them…except for Parker Bowles. Parker Bowles has a heart as big as the northern Ontario outdoors he loves so much. The former Special Ops soldier is perplexed at the small woman’s reaction to him. Yet something about her draws him. He can’t help but keep a special eye on the lonely, yet unpredictable Danica from NY—no matter what she says. Or does. But when her actions take a surprise turn…he’ll have to follow his heart, despite the rules… *This book is part of the Delta North NOVELLA series. Be sure to check out the Delta North Main series, starting with A Real Man: The FIRST MIRACLE. *Sign up for Susan's newsletter, on her site, to get release info about the new series, featuring the newly formed Delta North Security Force! *** THE DELTA NORTH TEAM Small Town Military Romance Series: Soldiers Coming Home A band of brothers was forged to provide military support for critical missions, with men from two countries: the U.S. and Canada, in the spirit of their forerunner, The Devil’s Brigade. With the handle The Delta North Special Ops Team, these soldiers sweat and worked together, put their lives on the line, and pulled off critical missions and successes. Now these heroes have come home and are starting their civilian lives far away from the battlefield, but with the same stalwart and uncompromising principles they fought under still strong in their hearts. Integrating back into civilian life will not be easy. Much has changed since they’ve been gone, and sometimes? Not enough has changed. But they’re back… …and they’re going to make a dent. Read their stories, hold your breath, cheer for their hard-won successes in life...and in love.
Author: Robert M. Mennel Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 1442614781 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 337
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This compelling history is drawn from the papers of the Crouse-Eikle family, discovered in their ancestral home in Crousetown on Nova Scotia's South Shore. Millwright John Will Crouse (18441914) kept a meticulous diary spanning five decades. Reflective by nature, he recorded the challenges of work, pondered the intricacies of communal life, and wrote movingly of his personal and spiritual struggles. His daughter Elvira Crouse Eikle reported on village events for local newspapers, and her son, Harold Eikle (19121977), a gifted teacher and musician, wrote letters and family history. Harold's correspondence celebrated the social liberations of the 1930s and beyond, but also showed their limits in the suffering he experienced as a gay man in a heterosexual world. Using the family papers, other unpublished documents and oral history, Robert M. Mennel connects the experiences of the Crouse-Eikle family and their community to larger themes of social and cultural change in North America. A story of vivid personalities and episodes, by turns sad, conflicted, joyful, bitter, funny and reflective, Testimonies and Secrets will be read with pleasure by scholars and general readers alike.
Author: Thomas J. Meyers Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 9780253217554 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 212
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Offers an overview of the Amish and Mennonite communities in Indiana, describing the traditions, beliefs, and contributions of each community and discussing their impact on the state's history.
Author: Leo P. Chall Publisher: ISBN: Category : Online databases Languages : en Pages : 804
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