Mennonites in Canada, 1786-1920
Author: Frank H. Epp
Publisher: MacMillan of Canada
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13:
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Village Among Nations
Author: Royden Loewen
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2013-12-06
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 1442666730
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween the 1920s and the 1940s, 10,000 traditionalist Mennonites emigrated from western Canada to isolated rural sections of Northern Mexico and the Paraguayan Chaco; over the course of the twentieth century, they became increasingly scattered through secondary migrations to East Paraguay, British Honduras, Bolivia, and elsewhere in Latin America. Despite this dispersion, these Canadian-descendant Mennonites, who now number around 250,000, developed a rich transnational culture over the years, resisting allegiance to any one nation and cultivating a strong sense of common peoplehood based on a history of migration, nonviolence, and distinct language and dress. Village among Nations recuperates a missing chapter of Canadian history: the story of these Mennonites who emigrated from Canada for cultural reasons, but then in later generations “returned” in large numbers for economic and social security. Royden Loewen analyzes a wide variety of texts, by men and women – letters, memoirs, reflections on family debates on land settlement, exchanges with curious outsiders, and deliberations on issues of citizenship. They relate the untold experience of this uniquely transnational, ethno-religious community.
Mennonite Women in Canada
Author: Marlene Epp
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 0887553435
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Mennonite Women in Canada "traces the complex social history and multiple identities of Canadian Mennonite women over 200 years. Marlene Epp explores women's roles, as prescribed and as lived, within the contexts of immigration and settlement, household and family, church and organizational life, work and education, and in response to social trends and events. The combined histories of Mennonite women offer a rich and fascinating study of how women actively participate in ordering their lives within ethno-religious communities.
Rewriting the Break Event
Author: Robert Zacharias
Publisher: Studies in Immigration and Cul
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780887557477
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Despite the fact that Russian Mennonites began arriving in Canada en masse in the 1870s, much Canadian Mennonite literature has been characterized by a compulsive telling and retelling of the fall of the Mennonite Commonwealth of the 1920s and its subsequent migration of 20,000 Russian Mennonites to Canada. This privileging of a seminal dispersal, or "break event," within the broader historic narrative has come to function as a mythological beginning or origin story for the Russian Mennonite community in Canada, and serves as a means of affirming a communal identity across national and generational boundaries.
Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood
Author: James Urry
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
Published: 2011-07-15
Total Pages: 782
ISBN-13: 0887554113
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMennonites and their forebears are usually thought to be a people with little interest or involvement in politics. Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood reveals that since their early history, Mennonites have, in fact, been active participants in worldly politics. From western to eastern Europe and through different migrations to North America, James Urry’s meticulous research traces Mennonite links with kingdoms, empires, republics, and democratic nations in the context of peace, war, and revolution. Urry stresses a degree of Mennonite involvement in politics not previously discussed in literature, including Mennonite participation in constitutional reform and party politics, and shows the polarization of their political views from conservatism to liberalism and even revolutionary activities. Urry looks at the Mennonite reaction to politics and political events from the Reformation onwards and focuses particularly on those people who settled in Russia and their descendants who came to Manitoba. Using a wide variety of sources, Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood combines an inter-disciplinary approach to reveal that Mennonites, far from being the “Quiet in the Land,” have deep roots in politics.
One Quilt Many Pieces
Author: Margaret Loewen Reimer
Publisher: Herald Press (VA)
Published: 2008-03-18
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMennonites in Canada are divided into an astonishing variety of church groups and organizations. Using recent statistics and census figures, Margaret Loewen Reimer introduces the history and distinctive theological characteristics of more than 20 Mennonite groups. Listed here are the membership facts on Old Order communities, mainstream denominations, German-speaking family groups, tiny clusters of congregations, and churches of many ethnicities and languages. Useful information like the offices, schools, camps, periodicals, and institutions of many of the groups are presented in an easy-to-use format.
Mennonites in Canada: 1939-1970 : a people transformed
Author: Frank H. Epp
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1974-01-01
Total Pages: 620
ISBN-13: 9780802004659
DOWNLOAD EBOOKT.D. Regehr shows how the Second World War challenged the pacifist views of Mennonites and created a population more aware of events, problems, and opportunities for Christian service and personal advancement in the world beyond their traditional rural communities.
Hard Passage
Author: Arthur Kroeger
Publisher: University of Alberta
Published: 2007-01-15
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780888644732
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the 1920s, 20,000 Mennonites left the newly formed Soviet Union and emigrated to Canada. Among them were Heinrich and Helena Kroeger and their five children. Based on Heinrich's diaries and letters, and archival research, Hard Passage speaks to the indomitable spirit of Mennonite immigrants to the Canadian West.
The Sociology of Canadian Mennonites, Hutterites and Amish
Author: Donovan E. Smucker
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Published: 2010-10-30
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1554587875
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe editor provides an important new scholarly tool for locating and understanding the enormous expansion of scholarly research dealing with the sociology of Canadian Mennonites, Hutterites and Amish. Although the book includes research from American scholars, the editor devotes special attention to Canadian works concerning these important and interesting minorities. Using the tripartite division of Mennonites, Hutterites and Amish, the bibliography includes 800 entries each with a concise summary and evaluation. The entries are listed under the subheadings: books, theses, articles and unpublished manuscripts. Preceding the bibliography itself is an essay by the editor originally presented to the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association. The essay outlines the differing conceptual assumptions of the researchers included in the book, the major methodologies employed and the main conclusions to be drawn from their work.
Horse-and-buggy Mennonites
Author: Donald B. Kraybill
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 0271028653
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining how the Wengers have cautiously and incrementally adapted to the changes swirling around them, this book offers an invaluable case study of a traditional group caught in the throes of a postmodern world."--Jacket.
