Samuel Hofer

5362. The Hutterites Lives and Images of a Communal People, by Samuel Hofer (read 28 Mar 2016) Back on Feb 11, 2002, I read a book on the Hutterites which was published in 1974. This book by Samuel Hofer was published in 1998. It sketches the history o the Hutterites from their founding in the 1520's and tells of their coming to the USA in 1870. The book, though written by a man who left the Hutterite colony at age 19, is written pretty defensively about the sect and its practices. The book is profusely illustrated and answers a lot of questions about Hutterite life. The author left the colony into which he was born because of religious questions, but he remains sympathetic to the Hutterite life style--though he has no desire to live it himself.… (más)