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Weber in doctoral theses on Mennonite topics. For a list of thirty-seven doctoral dissertations on contemporary Mennonitism either wholly or in part sociological see J. Howard Kauffman, "Report on Mennonite Sociological Research," Mennonite Quarterly Review, XXXVII (1963), 126-31. Dissertations covering fields of most relevance to this study include: Edmund G. Kaufman, "The Development of the Missionary and Philanthropic Interest Among Mennonites of North America" (PhD, University of Chicago, 1928); J. Winfield Fretz, "Mennonite Mutual Aid" (PhD, University of Chicago, 1941); Samuel Floyd Pannabecker," The Development of the Ceneral Conference of the Mennonite Church of North America in the American Environment" (PhD, Yale University, 1944); John A. Hostetler, "The Sociology of Mennonite Evangelism" (PhD, Pennsylvania State University, 1953); Elmer L. Smith, "A Study of Acculturation in an Amish Community" (DSS, Syracuse University, 1955); Paul Peachey, "Die Soziale Herkunft der Schweizer Tauter in der Reform ationszeit" (PhD, University of Zurich, 1958); Calvin Redekop, "The Sectarian Black and White World" (Old Colony Mennonites) (PhD,University of Chicago,1959); J. Howard Kauffman. "A Comparative Study of Traditional and Emergent Family Types Among Midwest Mennonites" (PhD, University of Chicago, 1960); Leland D. Harder, "The Quest for Equilibrium in an Established Sect: A Study of Social Change in the General Conference Mennonite Church" (PhD, Northwestern, 1962).

Parallel studies done on groups with backgrounds and history similar to the Mennonites and Amish deserve some attention and a few are selected as suggestive for study and comparison. Gillian Lindt Gollin, Moravians in Two Worlds: A Study of Changing Communities (New York: Columbia University Press, 1967) delineates social and religious change of an important sectarian group in both the Old and New World with urbanization conspicuous in the latter. Herbert Hogan, "The Intellectual Impact of the Twentieth Century on the Church of the Brethren" (PhD dissertation, Claremont Graduate School, 1960) contains much material on how a rural, uneducated group was transfunned by encounters with twentieth-century social, religious, and political thought. The impact of liberal religious influences is carefully delineated. Martin Schrag, "The Brethren in Christ Attitudes Toward the World: A Study of the Movement from Separation to an Increasing Acceptance of American Society" (unpublished PhD dissertation, Temple University, 1967) recounts the processes of social and ecclesiastical change in a small, erstwhile rural group influenced by Wesleyan holiness doctrine and in the twentieth century has undergone change as it expanded in missions and educational enterprises of considerable proportion for the size of the group. A sociohistorical work on the mutual interaction, as well as conflict, between religion and life is Frederick B. Tolles. Meeting House and Counting House: The Quaker Merchants of Colonial Philadelphia 1682-1783 (North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press. 1948). Based on original sources this work documents the social, economic, and religious life of a phase of the history of the Society of Friends during which certain of its members achieved prosperity, social prestige, and political power. Parallels, contrasts, and comparisons with the Mennonite experience in the New World are suggested.