Nearly extinct by the 18th century, they migrated to Russia in 1770 and about a hundred years later to North America. Over the course of 140 years, their population living in communities of goods …

On average, fifteen families live and work on the typical Hutterite colony, where they farm, raise livestock and produce manufactured goods for sustenance. The communal lifestyle of the Hutterites finds its …

Hutterite, member of the Hutterian Brethren, a branch of the Anabaptist movement, originally from Austria and South Germany, whose members found refuge from persecution in Moravia. It stressed …

Hutterite children enter kindergarten about age three, where they learn to pray, obey, and get along with others. They also learn to be quiet around adults and to cry quietly.

Hutterites are part of the broader Anabaptist tradition, sharing key beliefs with Mennonites and Amish. Notably, they emphasize adult baptism, contending that baptism should follow an individual’s …

Hutterites are a religious sect within the Anabaptist tradition, sharing similarities with the Amish and Mennonites. Approximately 50,000 Hutterites reside in Canada and the western United States, living …

The Hutterites are an Anabaptist group, along with the Amish and the Mennonites. Jacob Hutter founded the religion in central Europe in the middle 1500s. The official name of the religion is the Hutterian …

At this age, a Hutterite woman generally leaves her colony to marry a man in another colony, which receives a dowry in exchange. The Hutterites practice traditional gender roles, and women cannot …

On average, fifteen families live and work on the typical Hutterite colony, where they farm, raise livestock and produce manufactured goods for sustenance. The communal lifestyle of the Hutterites finds its …

The first Hutterites were religious refugees who fled from the South Tyrol to Moravia (in what is now Czechoslovakia) and, as followers of Jacob Hutter, chose to hold their material goods in common.