The Other Side of Joy

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The Other Side of Joy is written by Julius Rubin and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0195353242 (ISBN 10) and 9780195353242 (ISBN 13).

This is a case study of one pietist religious group, the Bruderhof. A Christian brotherhood founded on Anabaptist and evangelical pietist doctrine, they practice community of goods, seeking to emulate the vision of the Apostolic church and fulfill the ethic of brotherhood taught in the Sermon on the Mount. Rubin offers compelling accounts of the lives of Bruderhof apostates who foundered over issues of faith, and relates these crises to the central tenets of Bruderhof theology, their spirituality, and community life.