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...are three religious sects that have, at one time or another, lived communally in rural areas of Canada. These sects can all trace their religious roots to Europe and the Protestant Reformation, and specifically to an offshoot of conventional Protestantism, the Anabaptists. Just as Protestantism was a revolt against many of the religious tenets of Catholicism, the Anabaptists disagreed with the mainstream thought of Protestantism as represented by the followers of Martin Luther and John Calvin. The Anabaptists rejected infant baptism, refused to participate in military service and rejected political forms, refusing to hold public office (Bennett 26).
They favored living in rural "innocence" that emulated the Biblical apostles. In 1533, an Anabaptist minister named Jacob Hutter persuaded three congregations of Anabaptists to commit to living in full communalism and, thereby, established the first three communities of the Hutterite Brethren in Moravia, which is now part of the Czech Republic (Bennett 27).
Similarly Menno Simons founded the Mennonite societies in Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands (Hamm 33). The relationship between the Russian Doukhobor, or...