The Mennonites are a Protestant movement that abstains from public office, military service, or formal religious organization.
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Part 1, Section 1: Denomination and Social Stratification
...under religious persecution became the “seedbed of the capitalist economy.” Additionally, the Quakers and the Mennonites embody the most severe forms of religious control over daily life mixed with a remarkably...
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Part 2, Section 1: The Religious Foundations of Innerworldly Asceticism
According to Weber, the Baptists, which later spawned the Mennonites and Quakers, contributed to Protestant asceticism through their belief in “the believer’s church.” Although not...
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