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Mennonite Farmers

Author : Royden Loewen
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421442043
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Mennonite Farmers written by Royden Loewen and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparative global history of Mennonites from the ground up. Winner of the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize by the Canadian Historical Association, Nominee of the Margaret McWilliams Award by the Manitoba Historical Society Mennonite farmers can be found in dozens of countries spanning five continents. In this comparative world-scale environmental history, Royden Loewen draws on a multi-year study of seven geographically distinctive Anabaptist communities around the world, focusing on Mennonite farmers in Bolivia, Canada, Indonesia, the Netherlands, Russia, the United States, and Zimbabwe. These farmers, who include Amish, Brethren in Christ, and Siberian Baptists, till the land in starkly distinctive climates. They absorb very disparate societal lessons while being shaped by particular faith outlooks, historical memory, and the natural environment. The book reveals the ways in which modern-day Mennonite farmers have adjusted to diverse temperatures, precipitation, soil types, and relative degrees of climate change. These farmers have faced broad global forces of modernization during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, from commodity markets and intrusive governments to technologies marked increasingly by the mechanical, chemical, and genetic. Based on more than 150 interviews and close textual analysis of memoirs, newspapers, and sermons, the narrative follows, among others, Zandile Nyandeni of Matopo as she hoes the spring-fed soils of Matabeleland's semi-arid savannah; Vladimir Friesen of Apollonovka, Siberia, who no longer heeds the dictates of industrial time of the Soviet-era state farm; and Abram Enns of Riva Palacio, Bolivia, who tells how he, a horse-and-buggy traditionalist, hired bulldozers to clear-cut a farm in the eastern lowland forests to grow soybeans, initially leading to dust bowl conditions. As Mennonites, Loewen writes, these farmers were raised with knowledge of the historic Anabaptist teachings on community, simplicity, and peace that stood alongside ideas on place and sustainability. Nonetheless, conditioned by gender, class, ethnicity, race, and local values, they put their agricultural ideas into practice in remarkably diverse ways. Mennonite Farmers is a pioneering work that brings faith into conversation with the land in distinctive ways.

Horse-and-buggy Mennonites

Author : Donald B. Kraybill
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271028653
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Horse-and-buggy Mennonites written by Donald B. Kraybill and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Family, Church, and Market

Author : Royden Loewen
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252063251
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book Family, Church, and Market written by Royden Loewen and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loewen examines how the Mennonites' social structure and life goals accommodated societal changes and tells of three generations for whom the farm family was the primary social unit. The group's strategies of cultural continuity dictated that they adapt sensitively and carefully to the market economy and the outside world. Photos. Maps.

Rural Life Studies

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Rural Life Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Anabaptist/Mennonite Faith and Economics

Author : Calvin Wall Redekop
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780819193506
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (935 download)

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Download or read book Anabaptist/Mennonite Faith and Economics written by Calvin Wall Redekop and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1994 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The continuing conflict between the Anabaptist/Mennonite community and the expanding industrial culture of the modern world has not been investigated. This book addresses the issues which fuel that conflict, focusing on the implications of subordinating an economic system to the theological framework of a Christian society. Contributors: Gregory Baum, Lawrence J. Burkholder, Leo Driedger, Kevin Enns-Rempel, Norm Ewert, Jim Halteman, Leland Harder, Al Hecht, Jim Lichti, Jacob A. Leowen, John Peters, Cal Redekop, Walter Regehr, T.D. Regehr, Jean Seguy, Robert Siemens, Arnold Snyder, Willis Sommer, Mary Sprunger, and Laura Weaver. Co-published with the Institute of Anabaptist and Mennonite Studies.

The Farm Stand

Author : Amy Clipston
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310356466
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Farm Stand written by Amy Clipston and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salina is engaged to the “perfect” man—except for the fact that Josiah feels more like a friend than a fiancé. In this second installment of Amy Clipston’s Amish Marketplace series, love begins to grow between Salina and Will, a Mennonite chef—and both must decide if it’s a love worth fighting for. Salina Petersheim runs her own booth at the Amish market, where she’s known for having the freshest and most delicious produce in the area. Her family is very close, yet sometimes she tires of being compared to her older brother, Neil, a deacon who is married with two children. She also feels the pressure of having to be the perfect daughter for her mother and father, who is a bishop. Salina has been dating Josiah for almost a year now, but he feels more like a friend than a boyfriend. Her parents approve of Josiah, who is a hardworking roofer. He’s handsome and easy to talk to, but he just doesn’t warm her heart the way she feels a boyfriend and future husband should. She secretly longs for more. Along comes Will Zimmerman, a Mennonite chef who runs a restaurant located next door to the Amish market. Salina begins supplying the produce for his restaurant, and as they forge a business relationship, they both feel themselves falling in love. Salina tries to deny her feelings for Will since her father wants her to marry within the community. Both Salina and Will feel stuck in their current relationships, but they cannot deny what they feel for each other. Will they follow their hearts or bow to the pressure of family? Or will God provide a surprising new road for them? Sweet, inspirational Amish romance Full-length novel (85,000 words) The second book in Amy Clipston’s Amish Marketplace series Book 1: The Bake Shop Book 2: The Farm Stand Book 3: The Coffee Corner Book 4: The Jam and Jelly Nook Includes discussion questions for book clubs

Mennonites in Texas

Author : Laura L. Camden
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781585444977
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (449 download)

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Download or read book Mennonites in Texas written by Laura L. Camden and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-22 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With their distinctive head coverings, plain dress, and quiet, unassuming demeanor, the Mennonites are a distinctive presence within the often flamboyant and proud people of Texas. If you have seen them at a gas station, in a grocery store, or even at the Dallas–Fort Worth airport, you have probably taken note and wondered how they came to be there. In this photographic tour of two Texas Mennonite communities, separated by almost 450 miles, Laura L. Camden and Susan Gaetz Duarte introduce you to the Beachy Amish Mennonites of Lott, a small community of approximately 160 people in Central Texas, and the very different Mennonites of Seminole, a West Texas farming community of more than five thousand residents and five separate congregations, several of which still speak the Mennonite Low German. Spending more than a year getting to know the families, participating in day-to-day activities, and photographing the unique culture of the communities, Camden and Gaetz Duarte developed deep insight into not just the religious beliefs but the family relationships, role expectations, and daily routines of these people. Through their camera lenses, they offer others a touchingly intimate view of a unique lifestyle seldom experienced by outsiders. In a foreword, former governor Ann Richards identifies the book as part of both the long photographic tradition in Texas and the tradition of cultural and religious diversity in the state. Mark L. Louden’s introduction provides the historical backgrounds of Mennonites in Europe, their core beliefs, and their development into branches in North America. Dennis Carlyle Darling offers insightful comments on the photography that allows an intimate, respectful view of the people, their lifestyle, and their culture.

The Amish Farmer's Proposal

Author : Barbara Cameron
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1538751666
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book The Amish Farmer's Proposal written by Barbara Cameron and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweet and heartwarming Amish romance where no disaster can conquer true love. Dairy farmer Abe Stoltzfus wants to propose to Lavinia Fisher, the beautiful young woman he’s been dating, but being a traditional Amish man, he worries about how he can provide for her. Farming can be uncertain enough with weather conditions, crops not doing well, all manner of uncertainties. And after a bad summer storm and a serious injury from a rooftop tumble, Abe wants to wait until both he and his farm are back on their feet. Lavinia is relieved when Abe survives the fall, yet it seems like it’s only the start of events that threaten their future together. But Lavinia is not only a talented Amish crafter, she’s also the daughter of a farmer. She knows what the life of a farm wife is like and remains optimistic things will turn around. And when Abe continues to drag his feet, Lavinia makes him an interesting proposal. Will Abe be able to resist it—and her?

Old Order Mennonites

Author : Daniel B. Lee
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780830415731
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Old Order Mennonites written by Daniel B. Lee and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lee focuses on the Weaverland Conference of Old Order Mennonites, a group formed in 1893 and now consisting of over 5,000 members. A large concentration of Weaverland Mennonites live in upstate New York near Seneca Falls, and Lee focuses his easily readable sociological study on that community. Individual chapters deal with the worship, rituals, rules, and discipline of the group, and with a number of recent defections to a more mainstream Mennonite Church located in the same area. Lee argues that Weaverland Mennonites are held together by their practices alone, rather than by a common underlying set of beliefs. --Choice Magazine

The Waterloo Mennonites

Author : J. Winfield Fretz
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1554586860
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (545 download)

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Download or read book The Waterloo Mennonites written by J. Winfield Fretz and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2010-10-30 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Waterloo Mennonites is truly a communal book: the substance treats the communal aspect of the Mennonite community in all its complexity, while the book itself came about through communal effort from the students and researchers assisting Fretz, the various organizations and individuals providing support, the larger community including the two universities and Wilfrid Laurier University Press, and public funding agencies. This book seeks to derive a clearer understanding of the sociological characteristics of a single Mennonite community, beginning with the historical and religious background of the Waterloo Mennonites, reviewing their European origins, their ethnic identification, and their immigration experience. It also examines their basic institutions: religion and church, marriage and the family, education and the school, economics and earning a living, government and how they relate to it, their use of leisure time and methods of recreation. It also looks at the way Mennonites interact with the larger society and how that society responds.

California Mennonites

Author : Brian Froese
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421415135
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book California Mennonites written by Brian Froese and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did California Mennonites confront the challenges and promises of modernity? Books about Mennonites have centered primarily on the East Coast and the Midwest, where the majority of Mennonite communities in the United States are located. But these narratives neglect the unique history of the multitude of Mennonites living on the West Coast. In California Mennonites, Brian Froese relies on archival church records to examine the Mennonite experience in the Golden State, from the nineteenth-century migrants who came in search of sunshine and fertile soil to the traditionally agrarian community that struggled with issues of urbanization, race, gender, education, and labor in the twentieth century to the evangelically oriented, partially assimilated Mennonites of today. Froese places Mennonite experiences against a backdrop of major historical events, including World War II and Vietnam, and social issues, from labor disputes to the evolution of mental health care. California Mennonites include people who embrace a range of ideologies: many are historically rooted in the sixteenth-century Reformation ideals of the early Anabaptists (pacifism, congregationalism, discipleship); some embrace twentieth-century American evangelicalism (missions, Billy Graham); and others are committed to a type of social justice that involves forging practical ties to secular government programs while maintaining a quiet connection to religion. Through their experiences of religious diversity, changing demographics, and war, California Mennonites have wrestled with complicated questions of what it means to be American, Mennonite, and modern. This book—the first of its kind—will appeal to historians and religious studies scholars alike.

Maplecrest Turkey Farms, Inc.

Author : Gordon Miller
Publisher : Masthof Press & Bookstore
ISBN 13 : 1601264941
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Maplecrest Turkey Farms, Inc. written by Gordon Miller and published by Masthof Press & Bookstore. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1920s until 1965 Maplecrest Turkey Farms of Wellman, Iowa, was a leading pioneer in the modern commercial turkey industry. A. C. Gingerich, an Amish-Mennonite farmer and entrepreneur, was able to successfully develop his business from a handful of turkeys to make Wellman both a “Turkey Capital/Center of the World” and have it uniquely proclaimed as “Thanksgiving Town” by the late 1930s. The Maplecrest brand was known for its premium quality and was available, by name, in leading restaurants also by the late 1930s. This historical book looks at how the modern turkey industry was able to initiate itself largely through knowledge of disease prevention through sanitation means. Some chapters include topics such as how the turkeys were raised, processed and marketed, especially to Eastern markets, e.g. New York City, Boston, etc., and a chapter on World War II discusses the major role that Maplecrest played in producing not only turkeys, but beef, pork and lamb for the armed forces.

The Gordon C. Eby Diaries, 1911-13

Author : Gordon C. Eby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gordon C. Eby Diaries, 1911-13 written by Gordon C. Eby and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gordon C. Eby was born 21 September 1890. His parents were Christian Eby (1842-1920) and Catherine Clemens (1848-1918). He married Elsie Hewitt (1900-1974). They had eight children. He died in 1965 in Kitchener, Ontario.

The Mennonite

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 820 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Mennonite written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cultural Perspectives on Farmers' Perceptions : Mennonite

Author : Kenneth B. Beesley
Publisher : Truro, N.S. : Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Department of Humanities
ISBN 13 : 9781551740010
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Perspectives on Farmers' Perceptions : Mennonite written by Kenneth B. Beesley and published by Truro, N.S. : Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Department of Humanities. This book was released on 1993 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Amish Society

Author : John A. Hostetler
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801844423
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (444 download)

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Download or read book Amish Society written by John A. Hostetler and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1993-04 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the history and culture of Amish communities in the United States.

Culture of a Contemporary Rural Community

Author : Walter Martin Kollmorgen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Culture of a Contemporary Rural Community written by Walter Martin Kollmorgen and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: