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Amish, Brethren, Hutterites, Mennonites, and Moravians: A Research Guide
To use the links in this guide off campus go to http://www.etown.edu/HighLibrary.aspx and click on Database access from outside E-town network.
These are only some of the sources that may be useful to you. For further help with your research, please call (ext. 1453) or email Peter DePuydt. You may also email AskUs at the High Library, or call the Reference Desk at ext. 1461.
The High Library catalog will help you to find books, videos, CDs, and other materials.
For books not available at the High Library, use WorldCat.
A few recommended book titles
Bach, Jeff. Voices of the Turtledoves: The Sacred World of Ephrata. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003.
Bowman, Carl. Brethren Society: the Cultural Transformation of a "Peculiar People." Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
Durnbaugh, Donald F. (editor). Church of the Brethren: Yesterday and Today. Elgin, IL: Brethren Press, 1986.
Durnbaugh, Donald F. Fruit of the Vine: a History of the Brethren, 1708-1995. Elgin, IL: Brethren Press, 1997.
Dyck, John A. An Introduction to Mennonite History. 3rd edition. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
Hostetler, John A. Amish Society. 4th edition. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
Hostetler, John A. Hutterite Society. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974.
Hostetler, John A. and Gertrude Enders Huntington. The Hutterites in North America. Orlando, Fl.: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1996.
Kraybill, Donald B. The Riddle of Amish Culture. Rev. ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Kraybill, Donald B. and James P. Hurd. Horse-and-Buggy Mennonites: Hoofbeats of Humility in a Postmodern World. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006.
Kraybill, Donald B. and Steven M. Nolt. Amish Enterprise: from Plows to Profits. 2nd ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
Kraybill, Donald B., Steven M Nolt, and David L. Weaver-Zercher. Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2007.
Kraybill, Donald B. and Carl F. Bowman. On the Backroad to Heaven: Old Order Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish, and Brethren. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Nolt, Steven M. A History of the Amish. Rev. ed. Intercourse, PA: Good Books, 2003.
Redekop, Calvin. Mennonite Society. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.
Snyder, C. Arnold. Anabaptist History and Theology. Rev. ed. Kitchener, Ont.: Pandora Press, 1997.
Weinlick, John R. and Albert H. Frank. The Moravian Church through the Ages. Bethlehem, PA: Moravian Church in America, 1989.
Encyclopedias, etc.
Anabaptist World USA (289.773 K91a - 3rd floor of the Library)
The Brethren Encyclopedia (Ref 286.5 B884)
Church of the Brethren Yearbook (286.5 C561 - 3rd floor of the Library)
The Encyclopedia of Protestantism (Ref 280.403 En56)
Mennonite Cyclopedic Dictionary (Ref 289.7 C973a)
The Mennonite Encyclopedia (Ref 289.703 M527)
Mennonite World Handbook: Mennonites in Global Witness (Ref 289.7 M5472)
Mennonite Directory (Ref 289.705 M547 1999)
Bibliographies
Bibliographies allow you to take advantage of the work others have already done in selecting and compiling sources relevant to your topic.
Annotated Bibliography of Mennonite Writings on War and Peace: 1930-1980. (Ref 261.870316 An615)
An Annotated Hutterite Bibliography (289.771016 K61a - 3rd floor of the library)
A Bibliography of the Old Order Amish (Ref 289.73016 H831b)
Durnbaugh, D.F. and L.W. Schultz (Eds.). (1964). A Brethren Bibliography, 1713-1963. Brethren Life & Thought, 9(1-2), 3-177. (1st floor of the Library).
Durnbaugh, D.F. (Ed.). (1966). Supplement and Index to the Brethren Bibliography. Brethren Life & Thought, 11(2), 37-65. (1st floor of the Library).
Durnbaugh, D.F. (Ed). (1970). A Second Supplement to the Brethren Bibliography. Brethren Life & Thought, 15(4), 187-204. (1sr floor of the Library)
Shaffer, K.M. (Ed.). (1986). A Third Supplement to the Brethren Bibliography, 1970-1983. Brethren Life & Thought, 31(2), 70-110. (1st floor of the Library)
Mennonite Bibliography 1631-1961. (Ref 289.71016 Sp769m)
The Sociology of Mennonites, Hutterites, and Amish: a Bibliography with Annotations, Vol. II 1977-1990. (Ref 289.771016 Sm662s v.2)
Academic Search Premier: This multi-disciplinary database indexes over 8100 journals and provides full text for 4700 journals. Includes both scholarly and popular citations and full text articles from 1975 to the present.
ATLA Religion: an index to periodical articles and articles in books dealing with religious and theological literature.
Humanities Abs (Humanities Abstracts) contains abstracts of articles dealing with a broad range of topics in the humanities including: archaeology, art, history, literature, music, journalism, linguistics and philosophy.
JSTOR: Provides access to articles in the older issues of approximately 400 journal title in the humanities and social sciences. The years covered varies with coverage beginning in 2 to 5 years.
Peace Research Abstracts Journals. 1984-1990 level 1 of the Library, 1990 to present in Reference Room.
SocialSciAbs: Covers from 1983 to the present. Abstracts of articles in the social sciences, including some in full text. For 1974-1982, see Social Sciences Index in paper (level 1 of the Library).
Sociological Abstracts 1953-2004 (level 1 of the Library).WilsonSelectPlus A multi-disciplinary full text database, from 1994 to present.
Journals to browse
Brethren Life and Thought
Communal Societies (335.973 C734 - 3rd floor of the library)
Conrad Grebel Review
Journal of Mennonite Studies
Mennonite Quarterly Review
The Messenger
To use the links in this guide, go to: http://www2.etown.edu/library/Amish.html
Church of the Brethren Network
Mennonite Connections on the WWW
Moravian Church in North America
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