The Courts and the Colonies: The Litigation of Hutterite Church Disputes (Law and Society) - Hardcover

Esau, Alvin J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0774811161 ISBN 13: 9780774811163

Verlag: University of British Columbia Press, 2004

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The Courts and the Colonies offers a detailed account of a protracted dispute arising within a Hutterite colony in Manitoba, when the Schmiedeleut leaders attempted to force the departure of a group that had been excommunicated but would not leave. This resulted in about a dozen lawsuits in both Canada and the United States between various Hutterite factions and colonies, and placed the issues of shunning, excommunication, legitimacy of leadership, and communal property rights before the secular courts. What is the story behind this extraordinary development in Hutterite history? How did the courts respond, and how did that outside (state) law relate to the traditional inside law of the Hutterites?

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Alvin J. Esau is Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of British Columbia Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0774811161
• ISBN 13: 9780774811163
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400
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