Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Christianity - Mennonite

Marlene Epp, who has written extensively on Mennonite history, presents here the story of thousands of Soviet Mennonite women who, having lost their husbands and fathers to Stalinist work camps and the Second World War, made an arduous journey through war-torn Europe. Housed in displaced persons camps after the war, many eventually emigrated to Paraguay and Canada.

More than a mere description of the events that led these women from their native homes, this work encompasses the culture of women refugees and, in particular, how they 'remembered' the events that marked their lives. The...

When war broke out in 1939 Canadian Mennonites were overwhelmingly a rural people. By 1970 they had largely completed one of the greatest migrations' in their history - the transformation from a rural to an urban community. In this third and final volume of Mennonite history in Canada, T.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. Regehr describes how the war also initiated...

Despite the fact that Russian Mennonites began arriving in Canada en masse in the 1870s, Canadian Mennonite literature has been characterized by a compulsive telling and retelling of the migration of some 20,000 Russian Mennonites to Canada following the collapse of the Mennonite Commonwealth in the 1920s. This privileging of a seminal dispersal within the broader historic narrative reveals the ways in which the 1920s narrative has come to function as an origin story, or break event, for the Russian Mennonite community in Canada, serving to affirm a communal identity across national and...

In a century marked by two devastating world wars, the fractious fundamentalist-modernist debate, and growing diversity in the church, Orie O. Miller helped to lead Mennonites from rural isolation to global engagement.

In this engaging narrative, My Calling to Fulfill describes how Miller led Mennonite work in education, missions, peacemaking, postwar reconstruction, and mental health, and how he helped to mold every major Mennonite agency from Mennonite Central Committee to Mennonite Economic Development Agency.

Filled with previously untold stories of Miller's personal...

Frost's "momentary stay against confusion" is Barbara Esch Shisler's mode of trying to make sense of life through poems that worry the riddles of getting old, family dynamics, dreams, prayer, the evening news, bees-not to mention love, death, and God

"'Love every tedious beat/ of your dear and fleeting life, ' writes Barbara Esch Shisler in her poem, 'To a Mountain.' And she takes her own advice, plainly naming a world of pleasures and pains. In her gaze, African violets are 'luscious birds in furry nests, ' and meals at the Nursing Home, 'vague purees.' The strange teachings of...

While much has been written on the Amish, little has been revealed about their history. This book brings together in one volume a thorough history of the Amish people. From their beginnings in Europe through their settlement in North America, the Amish have struggled to maintain their beliefs and traditions in often hostile settings.

Now updated, the book gives an in-depth look at how the modern Amish church...