On the Backroad to Heaven

Old Order Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish, and Brethren (Revised)
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-8018-7089-7
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 575 g

Reihe: Center Books in Anabaptist Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kraybill, Donald B

Bowman, Carl Desportes

Bowman, Carl F.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Andere und Moderne Christliche Glaubensgemeinschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. The Old Road to Heaven
Chapter 2. The Hutterites
Chapter 3. The Mennonites
Chapter 4. The Amish
Chapter 5. The Brethren
Chapter 6. Common Convictions
Chapter 7. Four Roads to Heaven
Chapter 8. Preserving a Pilgrim People
Chapter 9. Ironies of a Postmodern Journey
Notes
Selected References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bowman, Carl F.
Carl Desportes Bowman is associate professor and chairman of the Department of Sociology at Bridgewater College.

Kraybill, Donald B
Donald B. Kraybill is a Distinguished College Professor and senior fellow emeritus at Elizabethtown College's Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies.

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.