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Author : Donald B. Kraybill
Release : 2002-09-30
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 897/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis On the Backroad to Heaven by : Donald B. Kraybill
Download or read book On the Backroad to Heaven written by Donald B. Kraybill. This book was released on 2002-09-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first comparative study sketches the differences as well as the common threads that bind these groups together.
Author : Donald B. Kraybill
Release : 2001
Genre : Amish
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Book Synopsis On the Backroad to Heaven by : Donald B. Kraybill
Download or read book On the Backroad to Heaven written by Donald B. Kraybill. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yosef Kats
Release : 2012
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 827/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Inside the Ark by : Yosef Kats
Download or read book Inside the Ark written by Yosef Kats. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's longest-lasting and most successful communal society, the Hutterites have a model of governance that has served them well for almost five hundred years. In the past the colony was an "ark," isolated from both the secular world and the host society. But today colonies face new challenges because of globalization and digital technologies and are losing much of their ability to exclude these influences from their lives. Based on extensive fieldwork with the Schmiedeleut branch of the Hutterites, the book includes the Conference Letters and Regulations, published for the first time in English translation, that provide invaluable insights into strategies for managing change.
Author : Raymond Murphy
Release : 2009-04-01
Genre : Nature
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Book Rating : 882/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Leadership in Disaster by : Raymond Murphy
Download or read book Leadership in Disaster written by Raymond Murphy. This book was released on 2009-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murphy explores whether technological development inadvertently constructed new vulnerabilities, thereby manufacturing a natural disaster. As the extreme weather in the ice storm may foreshadow what will occur with global warming, Leadership in Disaster also explores the politics, economics, ethics, and cultural predispositions involved in climate change, investigating how modern societies create both the risks they assume are acceptable and the burden of managing them. An innovative comparison with Amish communities, where the same extreme weather had trivial consequences, is instructive for avoiding future socio-economic catastrophes.
Author : Robert M. Mennel
Release : 2013-01-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 781/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Testimonies and Secrets by : Robert M. Mennel
Download or read book Testimonies and Secrets written by Robert M. Mennel. This book was released on 2013-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling history is drawn from the papers of the Crouse-Eikle family, discovered in their ancestral home in Crousetown on Nova Scotia's South Shore. Millwright John Will Crouse (18441914) kept a meticulous diary spanning five decades. Reflective by nature, he recorded the challenges of work, pondered the intricacies of communal life, and wrote movingly of his personal and spiritual struggles. His daughter Elvira Crouse Eikle reported on village events for local newspapers, and her son, Harold Eikle (19121977), a gifted teacher and musician, wrote letters and family history. Harold's correspondence celebrated the social liberations of the 1930s and beyond, but also showed their limits in the suffering he experienced as a gay man in a heterosexual world. Using the family papers, other unpublished documents and oral history, Robert M. Mennel connects the experiences of the Crouse-Eikle family and their community to larger themes of social and cultural change in North America. A story of vivid personalities and episodes, by turns sad, conflicted, joyful, bitter, funny and reflective, Testimonies and Secrets will be read with pleasure by scholars and general readers alike.
