Brethren Society: The Cultural Transformation of a “Peculiar People”
Carl Desportes Bowman
512 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0801849055
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Language: English
Publish: 794044800000
In the first book ever written on the subject, Carl Bowman examines how and why members of the Church of the Brethren―historically known as “Dunkers” after their method of baptism―were assimilated faster and earlier than their Amish, Mennonite, or even Hutterite cousins.