TY  - BOOK
N2  - "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.
AB  - "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.
T1  - On the backroad to heaven :Old Order Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish, and Brethren /
DA  - ©2001.
CY  - Baltimore :
AU  - Kraybill, Donald B.
AU  - Bowman, Carl Desportes,
CN  - BX8129.H8
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press,
PP  - Baltimore :
PY  - ©2001.
ID  - 1380644
KW  - Hutterian Brethren.
KW  - Old Order Mennonites.
KW  - Amish.
KW  - Plain People
KW  - Amish.
KW  - Hutterian Brethren.
KW  - Old Order Mennonites.
KW  - Plain People.
KW  - Hutterieten.
KW  - Doopsgezinden.
KW  - Amish.
KW  - Amische
KW  - Mennoniten.
SN  - 0801865654
SN  - 9780801865657
SN  - 0801870895
SN  - 9780801870897
TI  - On the backroad to heaven :Old Order Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish, and Brethren /
ER  -