Author: William Schroeder
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
The Bergthal Colony
Author: William Schroeder
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Mennonite Estates in Imperial Russia
Author: Helmut T. Huebert
Publisher: Kindred Productions
ISBN: 9780920643099
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Publisher: Kindred Productions
ISBN: 9780920643099
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
They Sought a Country
Author: Harry Leonard Sawatzky
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520017047
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520017047
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Concise Encyclopedia of Amish, Brethren, Hutterites, and Mennonites
Author: Donald B. Kraybill
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801899117
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Donald B. Kraybill has spent his career among Anabaptist groups, gaining an unparalleled understanding of these traditionally private people. Kraybill shares that deep knowledge in this succinct overview of the beliefs and cultural practices of Amish, Brethren, Hutterites, and Mennonites in North America. Found throughout Canada, Central America, Mexico, and the United States, these religious communities include more than 200 different groups with 800,000 members in 17 countries. Through 340 short entries, Kraybill offers readers information on a wide range of topics related to religious views and social practices. With thoughtful consideration of how these diverse communities are related, this compact reference provides a brief and accurate synopsis of these groups in the twenty-first century. No other single volume provides such a broad overview of Amish, Brethren, Hutterites, and Mennonites in North America. Organized for ease of searching—with a list of entries, a topic finder, an index of names, and ample cross-references—the volume also includes abundant resources for accessing additional information. Wide in scope, succinct in content, and with directional markers along the way, the Concise Encyclopedia of Amish, Brethren, Hutterites, and Mennonites is a must-have reference for anyone interested in Anabaptist groups.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801899117
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Donald B. Kraybill has spent his career among Anabaptist groups, gaining an unparalleled understanding of these traditionally private people. Kraybill shares that deep knowledge in this succinct overview of the beliefs and cultural practices of Amish, Brethren, Hutterites, and Mennonites in North America. Found throughout Canada, Central America, Mexico, and the United States, these religious communities include more than 200 different groups with 800,000 members in 17 countries. Through 340 short entries, Kraybill offers readers information on a wide range of topics related to religious views and social practices. With thoughtful consideration of how these diverse communities are related, this compact reference provides a brief and accurate synopsis of these groups in the twenty-first century. No other single volume provides such a broad overview of Amish, Brethren, Hutterites, and Mennonites in North America. Organized for ease of searching—with a list of entries, a topic finder, an index of names, and ample cross-references—the volume also includes abundant resources for accessing additional information. Wide in scope, succinct in content, and with directional markers along the way, the Concise Encyclopedia of Amish, Brethren, Hutterites, and Mennonites is a must-have reference for anyone interested in Anabaptist groups.
Johann Cornies, the Mennonites, and Russian Colonialism in Southern Ukraine
Author: John R. Staples
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487549172
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
In the late eighteenth century, the Russian Empire opened the grasslands of southern Ukraine to agricultural settlement by new colonists, among them Prussian Mennonites. Mennonite colonization was one aspect of the empire’s consolidation and modernization of its multi-ethnic territory. In the colony of Molochnaia, the dominant personality of the early nineteenth century was Johann Cornies (1789–1848), a hard-driving modernizer and intimate of senior Russian officials whose papers provide unique access into events in Ukraine in this era. Johann Cornies, the Mennonites, and Russian Colonialism in Southern Ukraine uses the life story of Johann Cornies to explore how colonial subjects interacted with Russian imperial policy. The book reveals how tsarist imperial policy shifted toward Russification in the 1830s and 1840s and became increasingly intolerant of ethnocultural and ethnoreligious minorities. It shows that Russia employed the Mennonite settlement as a colonial laboratory of modernity, and that the Mennonites were among Russia’s most economically productive subjects. This microhistory illuminates the role of Johann Cornies as a mediator between the empire and the Mennonite colonists, and it ultimately aims to bring light to the history of nineteenth-century Russia and Ukraine.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487549172
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
In the late eighteenth century, the Russian Empire opened the grasslands of southern Ukraine to agricultural settlement by new colonists, among them Prussian Mennonites. Mennonite colonization was one aspect of the empire’s consolidation and modernization of its multi-ethnic territory. In the colony of Molochnaia, the dominant personality of the early nineteenth century was Johann Cornies (1789–1848), a hard-driving modernizer and intimate of senior Russian officials whose papers provide unique access into events in Ukraine in this era. Johann Cornies, the Mennonites, and Russian Colonialism in Southern Ukraine uses the life story of Johann Cornies to explore how colonial subjects interacted with Russian imperial policy. The book reveals how tsarist imperial policy shifted toward Russification in the 1830s and 1840s and became increasingly intolerant of ethnocultural and ethnoreligious minorities. It shows that Russia employed the Mennonite settlement as a colonial laboratory of modernity, and that the Mennonites were among Russia’s most economically productive subjects. This microhistory illuminates the role of Johann Cornies as a mediator between the empire and the Mennonite colonists, and it ultimately aims to bring light to the history of nineteenth-century Russia and Ukraine.
Singing Mennonite
Author: Doreen Helen Klassen
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN: 088755895X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
In this pioneering book, Doreen Helen Klassen explores a collection of Mennonite Low German songs and rhymes.
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN: 088755895X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
In this pioneering book, Doreen Helen Klassen explores a collection of Mennonite Low German songs and rhymes.
Me and My House
Author: Dick Derksen
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1039187080
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Mennonites seemed to need to move somewhere every century, and ME AND MY HOUSE is almost a travelog, as it takes us from one part of Europe to another many kilometres away. As it moves from one generation to another, the nature of life in each location becomes the focus of our story. Beginning in the recently-created West Prussia of 1788, we accompany various members of the Derksen clan to Chortiza, the new colony beginning in South Russia at the invitation of Catherine the Great. It does not take long for that colony to exhaust the land it had been granted, and Molotschna was added to the list of Mennonite settlements. As this land, too, became used up, another colony, Berthal, was founded; this time the land was bought from Russian nobles, but the same privileges were granted to these settlers, mostly from Chortiza. Most of the Derksen clan found themselves having settled there in 1836, and our story concludes with everyone in that colony planning on a move to southern Manitoba, Canada. During their time in South Russia, Mennonite values that had been well-established in the Werder were under new challenges as society changed, and new inventions made work more productive. Religious stresses put pressure on the Old Church to examine itself, but it did not prevent new branches of the Mennonite Church to evolve.
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1039187080
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Mennonites seemed to need to move somewhere every century, and ME AND MY HOUSE is almost a travelog, as it takes us from one part of Europe to another many kilometres away. As it moves from one generation to another, the nature of life in each location becomes the focus of our story. Beginning in the recently-created West Prussia of 1788, we accompany various members of the Derksen clan to Chortiza, the new colony beginning in South Russia at the invitation of Catherine the Great. It does not take long for that colony to exhaust the land it had been granted, and Molotschna was added to the list of Mennonite settlements. As this land, too, became used up, another colony, Berthal, was founded; this time the land was bought from Russian nobles, but the same privileges were granted to these settlers, mostly from Chortiza. Most of the Derksen clan found themselves having settled there in 1836, and our story concludes with everyone in that colony planning on a move to southern Manitoba, Canada. During their time in South Russia, Mennonite values that had been well-established in the Werder were under new challenges as society changed, and new inventions made work more productive. Religious stresses put pressure on the Old Church to examine itself, but it did not prevent new branches of the Mennonite Church to evolve.
Author:
Publisher: Masthof Press & Bookstore
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Publisher: Masthof Press & Bookstore
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Mennonite mirror
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mennonites
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mennonites
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
The Coming of the Russian Mennonites
Author: C. Henry Smith
Publisher: Berne, Ind. : Mennonite Book Concern
ISBN:
Category : Mennonites
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Publisher: Berne, Ind. : Mennonite Book Concern
ISBN:
Category : Mennonites
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description