Old Colony Mennonites in Argentina and Bolivia

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047430638
Total Pages : 234 pages
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Book Synopsis Old Colony Mennonites in Argentina and Bolivia by : Lorenzo Cañás Bottos

Download or read book Old Colony Mennonites in Argentina and Bolivia written by Lorenzo Cañás Bottos and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-01-31 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume challenges received images of Old Colony Mennonites as ‘living in the past' or perfect examples of community. Through the concept of the ‘imagination of the future’ this book presents an analysis of their historical transformations as the result of attempting to apply in practice their Christian ideals of building a community of believers in the world, while remaining separate from it. It argues that while they contributed to the territorialisation of the states that hosted them through their migrations from sixteenth-century Europe to late twentieth-century Latin America, they systematically rejected being incorporated into the nation through the building of a community of agricultural settlements that maintain ties across international borders. It explores how these imaginations are maintained and transformed through the analysis of schisms, conflict, and border management, together with a biographical approach to conversion narratives, and the religious experience.

"Our Fatherland is Heaven": Struggles of Old Colony Mennonites in Bolivia and Argentina

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Total Pages : 224 pages
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Book Synopsis "Our Fatherland is Heaven": Struggles of Old Colony Mennonites in Bolivia and Argentina by : Lorenzo Canas Bottos

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The Old Colony Mennonites of Bolivia

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
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Book Synopsis The Old Colony Mennonites of Bolivia by : Jim Lanning

Download or read book The Old Colony Mennonites of Bolivia written by Jim Lanning and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Horse-and-Buggy Genius

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Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN 13 : 0887554911
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (875 download)

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Book Synopsis Horse-and-Buggy Genius by : Royden Loewen

Download or read book Horse-and-Buggy Genius written by Royden Loewen and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the twentieth century is one of modernization, a story of old ways being left behind. Many traditionalist Mennonites rejected these changes, especially the automobile, which they regarded as a symbol of pride and individualism. They became known as a “horse-and-buggy” people. Between 2009 and 2012, Royden Loewen and a team of researchers interviewed 250 Mennonites in thirty-five communities across the Americas about the impact of the modern world on their lives. This book records their responses and strategies for resisting the very things—ease, technology, upward mobility, consumption—that most people today take for granted. Loewen’s subjects are drawn from two distinctive groups: 8,000 Old Order Mennonites, who continue to pursue old ways in highly urbanized southern Ontario, and 100,000 Old Colony Mennonites, whose history of migration to protect traditional ways has taken them from the Canadian prairies to Mexico and farther south to Belize, Paraguay, and Bolivia. Whether they live in the shadow of an urban, industrial region or in more isolated, rural communities, the fundamental approach of “horse-and-buggy” Mennonites is the same: life is best when it is kept simple, lived out in the local, close to nature. This equation is the genius at the heart of their world.

The Old Colony Mennonite of Bolivia

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Total Pages : 260 pages
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Book Synopsis The Old Colony Mennonite of Bolivia by : James Walter Lanning

Download or read book The Old Colony Mennonite of Bolivia written by James Walter Lanning and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Permutations of Order

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131708215X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Permutations of Order by : Thomas G. Kirsch

Download or read book Permutations of Order written by Thomas G. Kirsch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Permutations of Order makes an innovative and important contribution to current discussions about the relationship between religion and law, bringing together theoretically informed case studies from different parts of the world, relating to various types of politico-legal settings and religions. This volume also deals with contemporary legal/religious transfigurations that involve "permutations," meaning that elements of "legal" and "religious" acts of ordering are at times repositioned within each realm and from one realm to the other. These permutations of order in part result from the fact that, in ethnographic settings like those examined here, "legal" and "religious" realms are relational to-and in certain cases even constitutive of-each other and they result in categoric transpositions and new social positionalities through which, among other things, "the legal" and "the religious" are blended. Permutations of Order is a work that transcends convention, identifies new and theoretically overarching themes and will be of strong interest to researchers and policy-makers seeking a comparative focus on the intersections and disjunctions of religion and law.

Out of Place

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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487520298
Total Pages : 333 pages
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Book Synopsis Out of Place by : Luann Good Gingrich

Download or read book Out of Place written by Luann Good Gingrich and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Out of Place, Luann Good Gingrich explores social inclusion and exclusion in relation to the approximately 60,000 Low German-speaking Mennonites who have migrated from isolated agricultural colonies in Latin America to rural areas of Canada

Exiled Among Nations

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108486118
Total Pages : 361 pages
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Download or read book Exiled Among Nations written by John P. R. Eicher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how religious migrants engage with the phenomenon of nationalism, through two groups of German-speaking Mennonites.

Menno Moto

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Publisher : Biblioasis
ISBN 13 : 1771963484
Total Pages : 276 pages
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Book Synopsis Menno Moto by : Cameron Dueck

Download or read book Menno Moto written by Cameron Dueck and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a motorcycle trip from Manitoba to southern Chile, Cameron Dueck seeks out isolated enclaves of Mennonites—and himself. “An engrossing account of an unusual adventure, beautifully written and full of much insight about the nature of identity in our ever-changing world, but also the constants that hold us together."—Adam Shoalts, national best-seller author of Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic and A History of Canada in 10 Maps Across Latin America, from the plains of Mexico to the jungles of Paraguay, live a cloistered Germanic people. For nearly a century, they have kept their doors and their minds closed, separating their communities from a secular world they view as sinful. The story of their search for religious and social independence began generations ago in Europe and led them, in the late 1800s, to Canada, where they enjoyed the freedoms they sought under the protection of a nascent government. Yet in the 1920s, when the country many still consider their motherland began to take shape as a nation and their separatism came under scrutiny, groups of Mennonites left for the promises of Latin America: unbroken land and new guarantees of freedom to create autonomous, ethnically pure colonies. There they live as if time stands still—an isolation with dark consequences. In this memoir of an eight-month, 45,000 kilometre motorcycle journey across the Americas, Mennonite writer Cameron Dueck searches for common ground within his cultural diaspora. From skirmishes with secular neighbours over water rights in Mexico, to a mass-rape scandal in Bolivia, to the Green Hell of Paraguay and the wheat fields of Argentina, Dueck follows his ancestors south, finding reasons to both love and loathe his culture—and, in the process, finding himself.

Landscape of Migration

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Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469656116
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Book Synopsis Landscape of Migration by : Ben Nobbs-Thiessen

Download or read book Landscape of Migration written by Ben Nobbs-Thiessen and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of a 1952 revolution, leaders of Bolivia's National Revolutionary Movement (MNR) embarked on a program of internal colonization known as the "March to the East." In an impoverished country dependent on highland mining, the MNR sought to convert the nation's vast "undeveloped" Amazonian frontier into farmland, hoping to achieve food security, territorial integrity, and demographic balance. To do so, they encouraged hundreds of thousands of Indigenous Bolivians to relocate from the "overcrowded" Andes to the tropical lowlands, but also welcomed surprising transnational migrant streams, including horse-and-buggy Mennonites from Mexico and displaced Okinawans from across the Pacific. Ben Nobbs-Thiessen details the multifaceted results of these migrations on the environment of the South American interior. As he reveals, one of the "migrants" with the greatest impact was the soybean, which Bolivia embraced as a profitable cash crop while eschewing earlier goals of food security, creating a new model for extractive export agriculture. Half a century of colonization would transform the small regional capital of Santa Cruz de la Sierra into Bolivia's largest city, and the diverging stories of Andean, Mennonite, and Okinawan migrants complicate our understandings of tradition, modernity, foreignness, and belonging in the heart of a rising agro-industrial empire.

Village Among Nations

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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442666730
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Book Synopsis Village Among Nations by : Royden Loewen

Download or read book Village Among Nations written by Royden Loewen and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the 1920s and the 1940s, 10,000 traditionalist Mennonites emigrated from western Canada to isolated rural sections of Northern Mexico and the Paraguayan Chaco; over the course of the twentieth century, they became increasingly scattered through secondary migrations to East Paraguay, British Honduras, Bolivia, and elsewhere in Latin America. Despite this dispersion, these Canadian-descendant Mennonites, who now number around 250,000, developed a rich transnational culture over the years, resisting allegiance to any one nation and cultivating a strong sense of common peoplehood based on a history of migration, nonviolence, and distinct language and dress. Village among Nations recuperates a missing chapter of Canadian history: the story of these Mennonites who emigrated from Canada for cultural reasons, but then in later generations “returned” in large numbers for economic and social security. Royden Loewen analyzes a wide variety of texts, by men and women – letters, memoirs, reflections on family debates on land settlement, exchanges with curious outsiders, and deliberations on issues of citizenship. They relate the untold experience of this uniquely transnational, ethno-religious community.

The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Christianity

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019986036X
Total Pages : pages
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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Christianity by : David Thomas Orique

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Christianity written by David Thomas Orique and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 2025, Latin America's population of observant Christians will be the largest in the world. Nonetheless, studies examining the exponential growth of global Christianity tend to overlook this region, focusing instead on Africa and Asia. Research on Christianity in Latin America provides a core point of departure for understanding the growth and development of Christianity in the "Global South." In The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Christianity an interdisciplinary contingent of scholars examines Latin American Christianity in all of its manifestations from the colonial to the contemporary period. The essays here provide an accessible background to understanding Christianity in Latin America. Spanning the era from indigenous and African-descendant people's conversion to and transformation of Catholicism during the colonial period through the advent of Liberation Theology in the 1960s and conversion to Pentecostalism and Charismatic Catholicism, The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Christianity is the most complete introduction to the history and trajectory of this important area of modern Christianity.

A Mennonite in Russia

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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442667737
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book A Mennonite in Russia written by and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 life in Imperial Russia during a period of troubled change. Epp’s writings reveal a skilled and honest diarist of deep feelings, and tell a human story that no conventional historical account could hope to equal. The diaries overflow with the details of his workaday world. Family, village, church, and community routines are broken by trips to market, visits to other Mennonite settlements, and a memorable steamer voyage to boomtown Odessa on the Black Sea. He chronicles his long-time involvement in an unusual Imperial experiment in which Mennonites were “model farmers” in Jewish villages. Harvey L. Dyck places the diaries in their historical, ethnocultural, social, religious, economic, and political settings. Based on archival research, interviews, travels, and consultations with other scholars, his detailed and perceptive introduction and analysis trace Jacob Epp’s life and present a sketch and interpretation of his larger family, community, and Imperial world. With striking clarity the diaries and introduction together re-create a time and way of life marked by controversy and flux. They reflect significant facets of the experience of ethno-religious minorities in Imperial Russia and of the development of the southern Ukrainian frontier. Above all, they fill significant missing pages of the great community-centred story of Russian Mennonite life. This book is richly illustrated with maps, black-and-white photographs, and watercolour paintings by Cornelius Hildebrand, Jacob Epp’s former village school pupil and later brother-in-law.

The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110880053X
Total Pages : 1171 pages
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Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics written by Silvina Montrul and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 1171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heritage languages are minority languages learned in a bilingual environment. These include immigrant languages, aboriginal or indigenous languages and historical minority languages. In the last two decades, heritage languages have become central to many areas of linguistic research, from bilingual language acquisition, education and language policies, to theoretical linguistics. Bringing together contributions from a team of internationally renowned experts, this Handbook provides a state-of-the-art overview of this emerging area of study from a number of different perspectives, ranging from theoretical linguistics to language education and pedagogy. Presenting comprehensive data on heritage languages from around the world, it covers issues ranging from individual aspects of heritage language knowledge to broader societal, educational, and policy concerns in local, global and international contexts. Surveying the most current issues and trends in this exciting field, it is essential reading for graduate students and researchers, as well as language practitioners and other language professionals.

Eastern European Popular Music in a Transnational Context

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030170349
Total Pages : 243 pages
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Book Synopsis Eastern European Popular Music in a Transnational Context by : Ewa Mazierska

Download or read book Eastern European Popular Music in a Transnational Context written by Ewa Mazierska and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the transnational character of popular music since the Cold War era to the present. Bringing together the cross-disciplinary research of native scholars, Eastern European Popular Music in a Transnational Context expands our understanding of the movement of physical music, musicians and genres through the Iron Curtain and within the region of Eastern Europe. With case studies ranging from Goran Bregović, Czesław Niemen, the reception of Leonard Cohen in Poland, the Estonian punk scene to the Intervision Song Contest, the book discusses how the production and reception of popular music in the region has always been heavily influenced by international trends and how varied strategies allowed performers and fans to acquire cosmopolitan identities. Cross-disciplinary in nature, the investigations are informed by political, social and cultural history, reception studies, sociology and marketing and are largely based on archival research and interviews.

Caring for the Low German Mennonites

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Publisher : Purich Books
ISBN 13 : 077488018X
Total Pages : 153 pages
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Book Synopsis Caring for the Low German Mennonites by : Judith Kulig

Download or read book Caring for the Low German Mennonites written by Judith Kulig and published by Purich Books. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when health care providers meet patients whose religious views contrast with mainstream health practices? Caring for the Low German Mennonites focuses on a unique religious group to examine the ways in which beliefs and practices influence members’ interactions with the health care system. Drawing on nearly twenty years of research, Judith Kulig elucidates a process for acknowledging and respectfully inquiring about a patient’s beliefs, and taking them into account in the planning of care and implementation of treatment. This book includes: an overview of what “cultural competence” means and how it can help health care practitioners provide effective care for their patients a meticulous account of the influence of religion on the Low German Mennonites’ conceptions of health and illness, women’s health, death and dying, and mental health consideration of the overlaps and differences between the norms of the Low German Mennonite community and those of the health care system. Caring for the Low German Mennonites serves as a rich and detailed example of working respectfully and effectively with a minority religious group. Kulig shows that trust and understanding are key to providing appropriate and equitable health care.

Back to the Postindustrial Future

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Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785337998
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Book Synopsis Back to the Postindustrial Future by : Felix Ringel

Download or read book Back to the Postindustrial Future written by Felix Ringel and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-03-26 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does an urban community come to terms with the loss of its future? The former socialist model city of Hoyerswerda is an extreme case of a declining postindustrial city. Built to serve the GDR coal industry, it lost over half its population to outmigration after German reunification and the coal industry crisis, leading to the large-scale deconstruction of its cityscape. This book tells the story of its inhabitants, now forced to reconsider their futures. Building on recent theoretical work, it advances a new anthropological approach to time, allowing us to investigate the postindustrial era and the futures it has supposedly lost.