Where Are the Plain Anabaptists?
Keywords:
AmishMennonite
German Baptist
Hutterite
Apostolic Christian
Bruderhof
geographical units
settlement
affiliation
region
Issue Date:
2013-04Metadata
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Ohio State University. LibrariesCitation:
Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies v. 1, no. 1 (2013), p. 1-25.Abstract:
This article discusses geographic analytical units of plain Anabaptist groups relevant for conceptualizing spatial dispersion across Canada and the United States. All plain Anabaptist groups are tied to the land, hence, the religious values, cultural traditions, and social organizations of plain Anabaptists are intimately and reciprocally bound up with geography. We discuss six geographic units of the plain Anabaptists and describe how we gathered information about their locations. These include: local church, local affiliation, settlement, region, broad affiliation, and global region. We present maps of their geographic distribution throughout Canada and the U.S., noting spatial patterns. Hence, this article provides a geographic introduction to plain Anabaptist groups, which are defined further in the next article, “Who are the plain Anabaptists? What are the plain Anabaptists?” (Anderson 2013).
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2471-6383Rights:
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