On the Backroad to Heaven: Old Order Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish, and Brethren

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On the Backroad to Heaven is a unique guide to the world of Old Order Anabaptist groups.

• ISBN bar code 9780801870897 ξ1 registered September 21 2015
  
• ISBN bar code 9780801870897 ξ2 registered September 22 2014
  
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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.

^ Carl F. Bowman (2002). On the Backroad to Heaven: Old Order Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish, and Brethren ISBN 9780801870897 (revised Aug 2019)
^ Center Books in Anabaptist Studies: On the Backroad to Heaven : Old Order Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish, and Brethren by Donald B. Kraybill and Carl F. Bowman (2002, Paperback, Reprint) ISBN 9780801870897 (revised Aug 2019)