This includes religious groups like the Mennonites, Amish, Hutterites, Brethren-in-Christ,
German Baptist Brethren, River Brethren, and many others.
In the 1880s, the
German Baptist Brethren divided into three groups: the Old Order
German Baptist Brethren, the
German Baptist Brethren (later Church of the Brethren), and the Progressive or Ashland Brethren.
Abstract: Discussions and decisions during the past two decades among the Old
German Baptist Brethren regarding use of digital communication technologies illustrate strategies by which alternative communities are able to resist the spiritual and cultural consequences of new technologies while at the same time functioning within the broader social and economic world shaped by such technologies.
During 1881-1883 a major split in the movement produced three groups: the so-called old orders, who became the Old
German Baptist Brethren; the so-called progressives who became the Brethren Church; and the so-called conservatives, who retained the title
German Baptist Brethren but later renamed themselves Church of the Brethren.