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Chapters: List of Mennonites, Brendan Fehr, Spanish Lookout, Yarrow, British Columbia, Walter Deloenus, Hermann Jantzen. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Note: Several Canadian political figures have a Mennonite background. This might be more common in Canada than in most nations. This is most true in the case of Manitoba and so politicians from other provinces will be designated as such. Hence the explanation for this slightly unusual subdivision. As this more concerns "connected to" not all the names here stayed committed to Mennonitism. This is mostly people whose Mennonite ancestry or upbringing is important to them, but who are not currently Mennonite. In some cases names listed here include people whose current status as Mennonites is undetermined. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2582294 ... Read more

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Chapters: Amish People, Hutterites, Mennonites, List of Mennonites, Brendan Fehr, Spanish Lookout, Hutterite German, Yarrow, British Columbia, Jacob Hutter, Walter Deloenus, Nebraska Amish, Anabaptist Museum, List of U.s. States by Amish Population, Peter Riedemann, Hermann Jantzen. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 50. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Hutterites (German: ) are a communal branch of Anabaptists who, like the Amish and Mennonites, trace their roots to the Radical Reformation of the 16th century. Since the death of their founder Jakob Hutter in 1536, the beliefs of the Hutterites, especially living in a community of goods and absolute pacifism, have resulted in hundreds of years of odyssey through many countries. Nearly extinct by the 18th and 19th century, the Hutterites found a new home in North America. Over 125 years their population grew from 400 to around 42,000. Hutterite women at work. Bill of impeachmentOriginating in the Austrian province of Tyrol in the 16th century, the forerunners of the Hutterites migrated to Moravia to escape persecution. There, under the leadership of Jakob Hutter, they developed the communal form of living based on the New Testament books of the Acts of the Apostles (Chapters 2 (especially Verse 44), 4, and 5) and 2 Corinthianswhich distinguishes them from other Anabaptists such as the Amish and Mennonites. A basic tenet of Hutterian society has always been absolute pacifism, forbidding its members from taking part in military activities, taking orders, wearing a formal uniform (such as a soldier's or a police officer's) or contributing to war taxes. This has led to expulsion or persecution in the several lands in which they have lived. In Moravia, the Hutterites flourished for over a century, until renewed persecution caused by the Aus...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=76400 ... Read more

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Title: Pantalla Grande.(TT: Silver screen.)(Reseña)(Columna)
Publication: Semana (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 11, 2001
Publisher: Spanish Publications, Inc.
Page: 41

Article Type: Reseña, Columna

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