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Hutterite

Member of the Hutterite Brethren, an Anabaptist sect that takes its name from its Austrian founder, Jakob Hutter, who was burned as a heretic in 1536. His followers modeled themselves on the early church in Jerusalem by holding their goods in common. Persecuted in Moravia and the Tirol, they moved eastward to Hungary and the Ukraine. In the 1870s many emigrated to the U.S. and settled in South Dakota. The society still exists in the western U.S. and Canada, where it has colonies of 60–150 members, who operate collective farms. Hutterites are pacifists who take no part in politics and remain separate from outside society.
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The case concerns the Alberta government's move to withdraw an exemption previously available to Hutterites from the requirement that their drivers' licences include photographs.
The Hutterite case and Canadian religious charities by Broder, Peter / LawNow
Our students might be tempted to disbelieve their own eyes as they read, but history provides numerous reminders that these teachings have actually been believed, wholly or in part, by quite a number of earnest souls over the centuries: the Mennonites, Amish, and Hutterites (descendents of the German Anabaptists), the Shakers (descendents of the English Quakers), and the Lollards of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
School spirit by Mates, Thomas / The Humanist
They were dressed like Hutterites and asked what needed to be done.
Real happy to give: first Sackville rises to the moderator's challenge by White, H. Roy / Presbyterian Record
 
 
 
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