Stoltzfus Pacifists in Chains

The Persecution of Hutterites during the Great War
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4214-1128-6
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies

Documents the disturbing history of four pacifists imprisoned for their refusal to serve during World War I.

To Hutterites and members of other pacifist sects, serving the military in any way goes against the biblical commandment “thou shalt not kill” and Jesus’s admonition to turn the other cheek when confronted with violence. Pacifists in Chains tells the story of four young men—Joseph Hofer, Michael Hofer, David Hofer, and Jacob Wipf—who followed these beliefs and refused to perform military service in World War I. The men paid a steep price for their resistance, imprisoned in Alcatraz and Fort Leavenworth, where the two youngest died. The Hutterites buried the men as martyrs, citing mistreatment.

Using archival material, letters from the four men and others imprisoned during the war, and interviews with their descendants, Duane C. S. Stoltzfus explores the tension between a country preparing to enter into a world war and a people whose history of martyrdom for their pacifist beliefs goes back to their sixteenth-century Reformation beginnings.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stoltzfus, Duane C. S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
Timeline
1. Called to Duty
2. Forced Migrations
3. A Nation Rises Up
4. Standing Trial
5. The Dungeons of Alcatraz
6. Enemy on the Home Front
7. Midnight at Leavenworth
8. Outside Advocates
9. Official Misjudgment
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Stoltzfus, Duane C. S.
Duane C. S. Stoltzfus is a professor of communication at Goshen College and the copy editor of The Mennonite Quarterly Review.