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The Hutterites :
to care and... not to
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DVD - Our Price: $
16.95 |
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RHB Productions (1984) |
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Length: 58 minutes |
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Product # VID181-2 |
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Shipping weight: 5.3
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An inside look at an amazing people who have chosen
a different way. |
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Not a passing phenomenon |
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While other utopian societies die,
the Hutterites have grown in North America to 30,000 people,
living in over 300 self-sufficient villages. |
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"In the world, but not of the
world" |
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They are a society where faithfulness
to Christ's teachings is more important than self-advancement or
worldly comforts. By yielding themselves completely to community,
the Hutterites have rid themselves of poverty, homicide and
anxiety about the future. |
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An enigma...a curious paradox |
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Although maintaining their medieval culture, the
Hutterites farm over a million acres of land in Canada and the
U.S. using the most advanced farm equipment, and even computers.
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450 years of Christian communal living |
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Surviving incredible harassment from those around
them, they have lived strict communal lives based on the teachings
of the Bible. In their schools they continue to teach their
children eternal values, in German, despite government regulation
of education. |
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This film is an extraordinary
achievement. It is a sensitive and illuminating document that
provides strong visual evidence for the apparent contentment and
security enjoyed by people who eschew individualism in all its
forms. Holding values so different from those of other North
Americans, the Hutterites, as portrayed here, provide a strong
case for an alternative way of life in the midst of American
industrialism.
George L. Hicks, Brown University in The American
Anthropologist |
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