Latino Mennonites

Latino Mennonites
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Publisher : JHU Press
Total Pages : 325
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ISBN-10 : 9781421412832
ISBN-13 : 1421412837
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis Latino Mennonites by : Felipe Hinojosa

The first historical analysis of the changing relationship between religion and ethnicity among Latino Mennonites. Winner, 2015 Américo Paredes Book Award, Center for Mexican American Studies and South Texas College. Felipe Hinojosa's parents first encountered Mennonite families as migrant workers in the tomato fields of northwestern Ohio. What started as mutual admiration quickly evolved into a relationship that strengthened over the years and eventually led to his parents founding a Mennonite Church in South Texas. Throughout his upbringing as a Mexican American evangélico, Hinojosa was faced with questions not only about his own religion but also about broader issues of Latino evangelicalism, identity, and civil rights politics. Latino Mennonites offers the first historical analysis of the changing relationship between religion and ethnicity among Latino Mennonites. Drawing heavily on primary sources in Spanish, such as newspapers and oral history interviews, Hinojosa traces the rise of the Latino presence within the Mennonite Church from the origins of Mennonite missions in Latino communities in Chicago, South Texas, Puerto Rico, and New York City, to the conflicted relationship between the Mennonite Church and the California farmworker movements, and finally to the rise of Latino evangelical politics. He also analyzes how the politics of the Chicano, Puerto Rican, and black freedom struggles of the 1960s and 1970s civil rights movements captured the imagination of Mennonite leaders who belonged to a church known more for rural and peaceful agrarian life than for social protest. Whether in terms of religious faith and identity, race, immigrant rights, or sexuality, the politics of belonging has historically presented both challenges and possibilities for Latino evangelicals in the religious landscapes of twentieth-century America. In Latino Mennonites, Hinojosa has interwoven church history with social history to explore dimensions of identity in Latino Mennonite communities and to create a new way of thinking about the history of American evangelicalism.

Mennonites, Amish, and the American Civil War

Mennonites, Amish, and the American Civil War
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Publisher : JHU Press
Total Pages : 390
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ISBN-10 : 0801886724
ISBN-13 : 9780801886720
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis Mennonites, Amish, and the American Civil War by : James O. Lehman

Explores the moral dilemmas faced by various religious sects and how these groups struggled to come to terms with the effects of wartime Americanization-- without sacrificing their religious beliefs and values.

Mennonites in Early Modern Poland and Prussia

Mennonites in Early Modern Poland and Prussia
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Publisher : JHU Press
Total Pages : 282
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ISBN-10 : 9780801891137
ISBN-13 : 0801891132
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Mennonites in Early Modern Poland and Prussia by : Peter J. Klassen

Klassen brings them to light and life by focusing on an unusual oasis of tolerance in the midst of a Europe convulsed by the wars of religion.

On the Backroad to Heaven

On the Backroad to Heaven
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Publisher : JHU Press
Total Pages : 358
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ISBN-10 : 0801870895
ISBN-13 : 9780801870897
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis On the Backroad to Heaven by : Donald B. Kraybill

This first comparative study sketches the differences as well as the common threads that bind these groups together.

The Mennonites

The Mennonites
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Publisher : London : Phaidon
Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : UTEXAS:059173007682479
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Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis The Mennonites by : Larry Towell

A photographic exploration of the way of life of Mennonite communities.

Horse-and-buggy Mennonites

Horse-and-buggy Mennonites
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Publisher : Penn State Press
Total Pages : 376
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ISBN-10 : 9780271028651
ISBN-13 : 0271028653
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Horse-and-buggy Mennonites by : Donald B. Kraybill

Examining 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.

Beliefs

Beliefs
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Publisher : Herald Press
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0836192702
ISBN-13 : 9780836192704
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis Beliefs by : John D. Roth

Ask any person randomly on the sidewalk what they know about the Mennonites and chances are their answer will include Mormons, black clothes and buggies, or general confusion. This short, engaging book gives a brief account of what Mennonites believe. From the beginnings of the Anabaptist (or Mennonite) movement in the 16th-century, to biblical interpretation, baptism, understandings of the church, ethics, and the complex question of denominationalism, John D. Roth provides a solid framework for on-going conversations about faithful discipleship in the Mennonite church today. Free downloadable study guide available here.

The Amish in the American Imagination

The Amish in the American Imagination
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Publisher : JHU Press
Total Pages : 316
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ISBN-10 : 0801866812
ISBN-13 : 9780801866814
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis The Amish in the American Imagination by : David Weaver-Zercher

Enveloped in mystery, Amish culture has remained a captivating topic within mainstream American culture. In this volume, David Weaver-Zercher explores how Americans throughout the 20th century reacted to and interpreted the Amish. Through an examination of a variety of visual and textual sources, Weaver-Zercher explores how diverse groups - ranging from Mennonites to Hollywood producers - represented and understood the Amish.

Two Kingdoms, Two Loyalties

Two Kingdoms, Two Loyalties
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 384
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015046892116
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Two Kingdoms, Two Loyalties by : Perry Bush

In the postwar era, Mennonites were no longer "the quiet in the land"; they began to articulate publicly their concerns about such issues as the draft, the civil rights movement, and the Vietnam War.".

Daily Demonstrators

Daily Demonstrators
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Publisher : JHU Press
Total Pages : 387
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ISBN-10 : 9780801899430
ISBN-13 : 0801899435
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Daily Demonstrators by : Tobin Miller Shearer

The Mennonites, with their long tradition of peaceful protest and commitment to equality, were castigated by the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. for not showing up on the streets to support the civil rights movement. Daily Demonstrators shows how the civil rights movement played out in Mennonite homes and churches from the 1940s through the 1960s. In the first book to bring together Mennonite religious history and civil rights movement history, Tobin Miller Shearer discusses how the civil rights movement challenged Mennonites to explore whether they, within their own church, were truly as committed to racial tolerance and equality as they might like to believe. Shearer shows the surprising role of children in overcoming the racial stereotypes of white adults. Reflecting the transformation taking place in the nation as a whole, Mennonites had to go through their own civil rights struggle before they came to accept interracial marriages and integrated congregations. Based on oral history interviews, photographs, letters, minutes, diaries, and journals of white and African-American Mennonites, this fascinating book further illuminates the role of race in modern American religion.