Leaders of the Mennonite Kleine Gemeinde in Russia, 1812 to 1874
Author: Delbert F. Plett
Publisher: Steinbach, Man. : Crossway Publications
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 940
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Author: Delbert F. Plett
Publisher: Steinbach, Man. : Crossway Publications
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 940
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: 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.
Author: Faith Eidse
Publisher: FriesenPress
Published: 2012-07
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 1460200322
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the wheat fields and bargain stores of rural Manitoba, Ben and Helen Eidse were the first missionaries sent overseas by their conference. On the African savannah they partnered with the Chokwe-Lunda who taught them language, culture and proverbs, which Ben used to explain salvation. Helen delivered the leprosy cure, mothered orphans, cared for the excluded, sick and poor. Their partners helped establish 80 churches, translate the Bible and run 24 clinics. They deepened their faith in spiritual battle against sorcery and corruption. The Eidses sought to empower the powerless and raise a family despite revolution, disease and disability. Back in Canada, Helen took in the homeless and Ben became president of Steinbach Bible College. As first chancellor, he continues a counseling, healing prayer ministry....
Author: Helmut Huebert
Publisher: Kindred Productions
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780920643068
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Royden Loewen
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
Published: 1999-10-12
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0887553222
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorian Royden Loewen has brought together selections from diaries kept by 21 Mennonites in Canada between 1863 and 1929, some translated from German for the first time. By skillfully comparing and contrasting a wide cross-section of lives, Loewen shows how these diaries often turn the hidden contours of household and community "inside out." The writers featured were ordinary rural people: young women and grandmothers, rural preachers and landless householders. They include a teenaged boy who immigrated from Russia to Manitoba in 1875 as well as a successful merchant, a traveling evangelist, and a devout, conservative church elder. An elderly grandfather recounted the daily circuit of his children's homes, while 19-year-old Marie Schoeder wrote of her literary aspirations, her "secret hope" that some day she would "write things that have a real worth, things that are worth printing, and things that other folks would love to read and pay for." From the Inside Out also contrasts diaries from two distinct Mennonite communities in Canada. The Swiss-American Mennonites in Waterloo County, Ontario, faced rapid urbanization, while the Dutch-Russian Mennonites in southern Manitoba maintained their more rural environment. The diaries mirror their writers' preoccupations with work and weather, but they also reveal a communityís social structure and round of activities such as weddings, funerals, and worship services. In the process of diary-keeping, the writers sought to make sense of a dynamic and often unpredictable world. Reading what they chose to record is to learn much about their culture. Their writings provide glimpses of their lives, their collective mindset, and their history as a people.
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 564
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 452
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Delbert Friesen Plett
Publisher: Steinbach, Man. : DFP Publications
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKGenealogical and passenger list information about the two hundred families, members of the Mennonite Kleine Gemeinde, who emigrated from settlements in Taurida and Ekaterinoslav Gubernii︠a︡, Russia (now in the Ukraine, U. S. S. R.) to Manitoba, Canada and Nebraska and Kansas in the United States.
Author: Leland Harder
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 156
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