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Article: Brethren Society: The Cultural Transformation of a "Peculiar People."
- Article from:
- Journal of Church and State
- Article date:
- January 1, 1997
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1997 J.M. Dawson Studies in Church and State. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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By Carl F. Bowman. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. 492 pp. $65.00 cloth; $19.95 paper.
Bowman's scholarly and engaging sociological and historical interpretation of Brethren society has been eagerly received and discussed within and beyond the Church of the Brethren. (Appropriating stories from a plethora of sources, he empathetically traces cultural changes of the movement which emerged from the milieu of Pietism in Germany in the early eighteenth century and identified with the older sixteenth-century Anabaptist movement.) The first Brethren baptisms constituted civil disobedience to the state-church establishment. From 1719-1750, most ...
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