The Hutterites in North America

by Hostetler, John Andrew; Huntington, Gertrude Enders

• ISBN13: 9780534440336
• ISBN10: 0534440339
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Table of Contents

Foreword	iii
Introduction	1	(4)
World View	5	(16)
View of the Universe, Nature, and Supernature	6	(2)
View of Human Nature and the Outside World	8	(2)
View of the Ego and the Relation of the Sexes	10	(2)
View of Community and Property	12	(1)
Language and Reality	13	(4)
Summary of World View	17	(1)
Concepts Unique to the Culture	18	(3)
Colony Life Patterns	21	(20)
Spatial Patterns	22	(3)
Communal Time Patterns	25	(7)
Age Sets	25	(2)
Daily Schedule	27	(2)
Weekly Schedule and Sunday Complex	29	(3)
Liturgical Calendar	32	(1)
Authority Patterns	32	(7)
Bureaucratic Organization	32	(3)
Male and Female Subcultures	35	(1)
Women's Work Patterns	36	(3)
Church Service and Community Integration	39	(2)
Technology and Economic Patterns	41	(22)
Production and Resources	41	(5)
Work	46	(4)
Expansion and Branching	50	(4)
Consumption	54	(2)
Distribution	56	(2)
Attitudes towards Property and Reciprocity	58	(3)
Summary	61	(2)
Socialization and Family Patterns	63	(36)
House Children: Birth to Two Years	65	(3)
Kindergarten: Three to Five Years	68	(5)
School Children: Six to Fourteen Years	73	(8)
Young People: Fifteen to Baptism	81	(5)
Baptism	86	(3)
Marriage and Adulthood	89	(6)
Aging	95	(1)
Death	96	(3)
The Challenge of Change and Disruption	99	(20)
War and Nonresistance	99	(3)
Neighboring Practices	102	(2)
Legal Restrictions	104	(3)
Education and the Public School	107	(3)
Affluence and Poverty	110	(3)
Leadership Failure	113	(2)
Defection	115	(2)
The Society of Brothers	117	(2)
The Genius of the Culture	119	(10)
Appendix A Fieldwork in a Communal Society	129	(16)
Editorial Introduction	129	(2)
Establishing Contact	131	(1)
A Period of Evaluation and Incubation	132	(1)
Delineating the Research Problem	132	(1)
The Research Design	133	(2)
Entering the Community	135	(2)
Living with the Colony People	137	(6)
Concluding Observations	143	(1)
Postscript	144	(1)
Appendix B Table Rules	145	(4)
Bibliography	149	(6)
Index	155