Written to mark the centennial of the Hutterites' arrival in North America, John Hostetler's acclaimed study traces their history from the founding of their society over four centuries ago to the earl
This volume is a synthesis of the research articles of one of Europea€?s leading scholars of 16th-century exile communities. It will be invaluable to the growing number of historians interested in the
Although their plight now dominates television news worldwide, the Bosnian Muslims were until recently virtually unknown outside of Yugoslavia. Who are these people? Why are they the focus of their fo
"I have been able to follow a Bosnian community over a period of six years, during which it has undergone dramatic changes and events. In the late eighties people were working hard against...economic
Twenty sensitive answers to the most common questions about the Amish and Mennonite peoples from two leading experts on these plain people. Authoritative, sympathetic, and thorough. Sensitiv
Devotional "occasions", or experiences by Irish Catholics form the crux of this powerful, first book-length anthropological study of Irish Catholicism.Questions central to the study of religion infor
For English Catholics, the years from 1850 to 1900 were stirring times. Emerging from a long period of social obscurity, they became confident that a 'Second Spring' would bring them to a position of
Although the Palestinian problem has been dealt with extensively by scholars, little has been written on Palestinian society and practically nothing on the Christian communities. This book aims to por
"I had an obsession with the Amish. Plan and simple. Objectively it made no sense. I, who worked hard at being special, fell in love with a people who valued being ordinary." So begins Sue Bender's s
"A new version of the old 'immigrant success' story is circulating in America. It implies that the apparent academic progress of recent arrivals to our schools is the result of simple head work, oppor
Bringing together an extraordinary richness of evidence—from letters, diaries, and other intimate family records of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries—Philip Greven explores the strikingly disti
