Hutterites
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1536 CE to 2057 CE
Hutterites (German: Hutterer) are an ethno-religious group that is a communal branch of Anabaptists who, like the Amish and Mennonites, trace their roots to the Radical Reformation of the sixteenth century.
Since the death of their namesake 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.
Nearly extinct by the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Hutterites found a new home in North America.
Over one hundfred and twenty-five years their population grew from four hundred to around forty-two thousand.
Today, most Hutterites live in Western Canada and the upper Great Plains of the U.S.
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The followers of the charismatic Tyrolean Anabaptist leader Jacob Hutter, although peaceful citizens and excellent farmers, suffer intermittent but severe persecution.
Hutter, who leads his followers from the Tyrol to Moravia, is tortured and burned as a heretic in 1536, having founded a movement that, in common with other Anabaptists, rejects state churches, practices adult baptism, and subscribes to pacifism.
The Hutterian Brethren, or Hutterites, as this movement becomes known, also adopt common ownership of property, stressing community of goods on the model of the primitive church in Jerusalem.