CONTENTS

The Hutterites: Lives and Images of a Communal People - by Samuel Hofer

Introduction - 9

Acknowledgements - 11

Hutterite Life - 15

• The Leit - 15
• The Integrated Community - 17
• Schools and Vocations - 25
• Sermons and Songs - 41

Life Cycles, Traditions, and Stages of Hutterite Life - 47

• Children - 47
• The Young Adult Years - 51
• Baptism - 57
• Marriage - 57
• Middle and Old Age - 69
• The Final Rite - 70

Hutterite History - 75

• The Biblical Legacy - 75
• The Radical Reformation -page 75
• The Beginning of a Communal People - 77
• Jakob Hutter - 77
• The Hutterites in Moravia and Hungary - 77
• Early Hutterite Missionaries and Notable Leaders - 78
• The Turkish War and the Thirty Years' War - 82
• The Decline of the Hutterite Church - 83
• Hutterites in Transylvania - 87
• The New Hutterites - 87
• Hutterites in Wallachia - 88
• Hutterites in the Ukraine - 89
• From the Russian Steppes to the American Prairies - 92
• World War I and After - 99
• Hutterites in Canada - 102
• World War II and After - 104
• Hutterites in a Changing World - 125

When East Met West - 131

Prairieleit Hutterites - page 141

Japanese Hutterites - 156

Hutterite Weggelufene - 159

Frequently Asked Questions Misconceptions about Hutterites - 169

Bibliography - 179

Photograph Credits - 181

Glossary - 182