Mennonite category: 136 books
Eastern Mennonite University
A Century of Countercultural Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
In this unique educational history, Donald B. Kraybill traces the sociocultural transformation of Eastern Mennonite University from a fledgling separatist school founded by white, rural, Germanic Mennonites into a world-engaged institution populated by many faith traditions, cultures, and nationalities.
The...
Mission and Migration
A Global Mennonite History
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Mission and Migration is the first comprehensive history to be written by Latin American Mennonite historians about Mennonite church life in Central and South Americas from its beginnings. From the Introduction to the volume: "The story of the coming of Anabaptist-descended churches to Latin America...
After Identity
Mennonite Writing in North America
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
For decades, the field of Mennonite literature has been dominated by the question of Mennonite identity. After Identity interrogates this prolonged preoccupation and explores the potential to move beyond it to a truly post-identity Mennonite literature.
The twelve essays collected here view...
by General Conference of the Mennonite Church of North America
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2017
Numerous requests were made that the General Conference publish revised Articles of Faith of the General Conference of the Mennonite Church of North America.
The following Committee on Confession of Faith was elected for this purpose by the General Conference: Rev. P. R. Aeschliman, Rev. W....
Latino Mennonites
Civil Rights, Faith, and Evangelical Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
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...
Testing Faith and Tradition
A Global Mennonite History
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
The Anabaptist movement had its beginning in scattered places throughout Europe during the 16th century. Today these Anabaptist-descended Mennonite churches are declining in membership, but they are not without reinvigorated faith and hope. Frequent wars during the past 480 years strained these Mennonite...
A Mennonite in Russia
The Diaries of Jacob D. Epp, 1851-1880
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
In the lives of ordinary people are the truths of history. Such truths abound in the diaries of Jacob Epp, a Russian Mennonite school-teacher, lay minister, farmer, and village secretary in southern Ukraine. This abridged translation of his diaries offers a remarkably vivid picture of Mennonite community...
Rewriting the Break Event
Mennonites and Migration in Canadian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2013
Despite the fact that Russian Mennonites began arriving in Canada en masse in the 1870s, Mennonite Canadian literature has been marked by a compulsive retelling of the mass migration of some 20,000 Russian Mennonites to Canada following the collapse of the “Mennonite Commonwealth” in the 1920s....
Rolling Down Black Stockings
A Passage Out of the Old Order Mennonite Religion
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
A rare memoir of growing up Old Order Mennonite
Rolling Down Black Stockings is a personal recollection of Esther Royer Ayers’s youth spent in a highly restrictive and confined religious community. Her story is as much a search for identity and a longing for a mother’s love as it is a tale...
Mennonite Women in Canada
A History
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
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,...
The Constructed Mennonite
History, Memory, and the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
John Werner was a storyteller. A Mennonite immigrant in southern Manitoba, he captivated his audiences with tales of adventure and perseverance. With every telling he constructed and reconstructed the memories of his life.John Werner was a survivor. Born in the Soviet Union just after the Bolshevik...
Chosen Nation
Mennonites and Germany in a Global Era
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the global Mennonite church developed an uneasy relationship with Germany. Despite the religion's origins in the Swiss and Dutch Reformation, as well as its longstanding pacifism, tens of thousands of members embraced militarist German nationalism. Chosen...
Homespun
Amish and Mennonite Women in Their Own Words
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Straight from the pens of Amish and Mennonite women . . .
Ever wish you could visit with a group of Amish or Mennonite women over a cup of coffee? In the pages of Homespun, Amish and Plain Mennonite women swap stories and spin yarns while we listen in. Lorilee Craker, bestselling author of...
by Jean Janzen
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1986
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1986
This well-received collection features three poets who differ widely in culture and style, yet are rooted in common values. Yorifumi Yaguchi is a well-known Japanese poet and professor. Jean Janzen is a Fresno, California, poet whose work has appeared in many literary magazines, and David Waltner-Toews...