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The Bruderhof

Movement·Founded 1920 CE·About 3,000 people in roughly two dozen communities as of 2024, in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Paraguay, Australia and South Korea. The Bruderhof does not publish an audited membership figure; the count includes children and resident non-members.

who it looks to — gods, spirits, ancestors; some rooms are empty on principle Part of Belief →

E Eberhard Arnold — the theologian who went looking for the Hutterites. A doctor of philosophy and a lecture-circuit speaker in the German youth movement, he left Berlin in 1920 for a house in the Rhon and a shared purse. In 1930 he crossed the Atlantic, spent a year among the Hutterite colonies and was ordained by them; he died in 1935 after a failed operation on a broken leg. Domain Community of goods, the Sermon on the Mount as social orderStanding Read constantly, quoted constantly, and not venerated Meet them — context →