The Amish, Hutterites, Mennonites, Old Order Mennonites and Conservative Mennonites are direct descendants of the movement.

* The Hutterites or Hutterian Brethren are descendants of German, Swiss, and Tyrolean Anabaptists led by Jacob Hutter, who was burned at the stake in 1536 for refusing to renounce his faith.

Most Hutterites are descended from these 400.

Many of the German-speaking residents of Judith Basin County are Hutterites.

About half are owned by Russian-German Mennonite and Hutterites farmers.

Its speakers belong to the Schmiedleit, Lehrerleit, and Dariusleit Hutterite groups, but there are also speakers among the older generations of Prairieleit ( the descendants of those Hutterites who chose not to settle in colonies ).

Religious sects whose members live communally, such as the Hutterites, for example, are not usually called " utopian socialists ", although their way of living is a prime example.

There are several examples from recent history, however, including the pilgrims of Plymouth Colony, the Shakers, the Harmony Society, Hutterites, some groups within the Religious Society of Friends, and the United Order.

In Ukraine, the Hutterites enjoyed relative prosperity, although their distinctive form of communal life was influenced by neighboring Russian Mennonites.

Several state laws were enacted seeking to deny Hutterites religious legal status to their communal farms ( colonies ).

This would allow the Doukhobors to establish a communal life style, similar to the Hutterites.

European Radical Reformation of Anabaptist and different groups of Schwarzenau Brethren started processes which later led to communal movements of Shakers or Hutterites.

They were thus technically Anabaptists, even though Conservative Mennonites, Amish, Mennonites, and Hutterites and some historians tend to consider them as outside of true Anabaptism.

The Oriental Orthodox Churches fully adopt this position ; among Radical Reformation groups, the early Anabaptists came close, and modern Anabaptist groups such as the Mennonites and Hutterites come closest.

The Mennonites, Swiss Brethren, South German Anabaptists, and Hutterites were not as concerned about mode, and, while not rejecting immersion, found pouring much more practical and believed it to be the Scriptural mode.

In North America and the UK particularly, it is often viewed as a development and logical extension of the ' Brethren ' or Plymouth Brethren movement both in doctrine and practice where many individuals and assemblies have adopted new approaches to worship and governance, while others recognise a relationship to the Anabaptists, Quakers, Amish, Hutterites, Mennonites, Moravians, Methodists, and the much earlier Waldenses and Priscillianists.

Many groups were influenced by biblicism ( like the Swiss Brethren ), spiritualism ( like the South German Anabaptists ) and mainly absolute pacifism ( like the Swiss Brethren, the Hutterites and the Mennonites from Northern Germany and the Netherlands ).

Most of the people who originally settled the region were from the Scottish Highlands, the English or were Mennonites or Hutterites of Central European extraction.

The term covers both radical reformers like Thomas Müntzer, Andreas Karlstadt, groups like the Zwickau prophets and anabaptist groups like the Hutterites and the Mennonites.

Some Christians believe insurance represents a lack of faith and there is a long history of resistance to commercial insurance in Anabaptist communities ( Mennonites, Amish, Hutterites, Brethren in Christ ) but many participate in community-based self-insurance programs that spread risk within their communities.

The Amish and Hutterites can also be considered an attempt towards a better world to live in.

Separatism can still be seen today in autonomous religious communities such as the Amish and the Hutterites.

These include Amish ; Old Order, Conservative, Conservative Mennonites, and Old Colony Mennonites ; Old German Baptist Brethren ; the Hutterites ; and Old Order River Brethren ; and at one time Quakers, the Brethren in Christ ( BIC ), and Shakers, Dunkards.

On the Backroad to Heaven: Old Order Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish, and Brethren.

The Anabaptist tradition, made up of the Amish, Hutterites, and Mennonites, rejected the Roman Catholic and Lutheran doctrines of infant baptism ; this tradition is also noted for its belief in pacifism.

Besides the three historic peace churches, they include the Amish, Old Order Mennonites, Conservative Mennonites, Hutterites, Old German Baptist Brethren, Old Order River Brethren, the Brethren in Christ, and others in the Anabaptist tradition ; Doukhobors, Dunkard Brethren, Molokans, Bruderhof Communities, Schwenkfelders, Moravians, the Shakers, and even some groups within the Pentecostal movement.

* in United States ( including Mennonites, the Amish and Hutterites )

* in Canada ( including the Mennonites, the Amish and Hutterites )

Small communities of Amish and Hutterites speak it as a home language up to the present day.

Among the many varieties to develop were Mennonites, Amish, and Hutterites.

It was only in Russia that the Hutterites learned to farm from the Mennonites.

Since the death of their founder 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 odyssey through many countries.

Hutterites practice a near-total community of goods: all property is owned by the colony, and provisions for individual members and their families come from the common resources.

Before the Hutterites emigrated to North America, they relied on manufacturing to sustain their communities.

The Hutterites near Winnipeg allowed the film company into their community.

Originating in the Austrian province of Tyrol in the 16th century, the forerunners of the Hutterites migrated to Moravia to escape persecution.

In Moravia, the Hutterites flourished for over a century, until renewed persecution caused by the Austrian takeover of the Czech lands forced them once again to migrate, first to Transylvania, and, then, in the early 18th century, to Ukraine, in the Russian Empire.

Some Hutterites converted to Catholicism and retained a separate ethnic identity in Slovakia as the Habans until the 19th century ( by the end of World War II, the Haban group had become essentially extinct ).

The mode of baptism was debated by the Hutterites and the Polish Brethren around the turn of the 17th century, and the arguments for immersion by Polish leader Christoph Ostorodt were incorporated into the Racovian Confession of Faith in 1604.

Nearly extinct by the 18th and 19th centuries, the Hutterites found a new home in North America.

At this time the number of Hutterites had fallen to around 100.

By this time, many Hutterites had already established new colonies in Alberta and Saskatchewan.

During World War I, the pacifist Hutterites suffered persecution in the United States.

In 1942, alarmed at the influx of Dakota Hutterites buying copious tracts of land, the province of Alberta passed the Communal Properties Act, severely restricting the expansion of the Dariusleut and Lehrerleut colonies.

The act was repealed in 1973, allowing Hutterites to purchase land.

For a few years in the early 1950s, and in 1974 – 1990, the Arnoldleut ( or Bruderhof Communities ) were recognized as Hutterites.

Although most Hutterites live in the Midwestern United States and in Western Canada, Hutterite colonies have been established in Australia, Nigeria and Japan.