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A 12 page research paper that examines three Protestant sects-- The Doukhobors, Mennonites and the Hutterites. The writer specifically looks at the gender roles within these groups and the ways in which communal life impacts the lives of women. Also discussed is the radical fringe group of the Doukhobors, the Sons of Freedom. Bibliography contains 12 sources.
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Europe and the Protestant Reformation, and specifically to an offshoot of conventional Protestantism, the Anabaptists. Just as Protestantism was a revolt against many of the religious tenets of Catholicism,
the Anabaptists disagreed with the mainstream thought of Protestantism as represented by the followers of Martin Luther and John Calvin. The Anabaptists rejected infant baptism, refused to participate in military
service and rejected political forms, refusing to hold public office (Bennett 26). They favored living in rural "innocence" that emulated the Biblical apostles. In 1533, an Anabaptist minister named
Jacob Hutter persuaded three congregations of Anabaptists to commit to living in full communalism and, thereby, established the first three communities of the Hutterite Brethren in Moravia, which is now
part of the Czech Republic (Bennett 27). Similarly Menno Simons founded the Mennonite societies in Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands (Hamm 33). The relationship between the Russian Doukhobor, or
"spirit-wrestlers," and the Anabaptists is less clear-cut. However, Holt believes that their beliefs, also, "may have stemmed from the Anabaptists" (10). Certainly, the Doukhobors beliefs mirrored those of Anabaptists.
All three of these groups immigrated to North America and settled in communities across Canada. Due to he fact that they were all based on similar fundamentalist Christian beliefs, there
are marked similarities between the roles that these communities assigned to men and women. Generally, men were perceived to be the acknowledged head of the household and women were assigned
the role of helpmate and facilitator. Bennett sums it up very well in his book on Hutterite society when he writes, "Hutterian society might be described as a society
of men aided and assisted by women" (111). Nevertheless, even within the prescriptions regarding the female role, there are differences in the degree of autonomy that women have achieved within
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