The founder of the Hutterites, Jakob Hutter,
"established the Hutterite colonies on the basis of the Schleitheim
Confession, a classic Anabaptist statement of faith", with the first
communes being formed in 1528.
Since the death of their eponym Jakob
Hutter in 1536, the beliefs of the Hutterites, especially living in a community
of goods and absolute pacifism, have resulted in hundreds of years of diaspora
in many countries. They embarked on a series of migrations through central
and eastern Europe. Nearly extinct by the 18th and 19th centuries, the
Hutterites found a new home in North America. Over 130 years, their population
recovered from 400 to around 45,000. Today, most Hutterites live in Western
Canada and the upper Great Plains of the United States.
This portrait however is a Hutterite boinero in Paraguay, 1954.
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